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5. Archive commands reference



5.1. Action zone

The Action Zone is generally composed of the following buttons :

These buttons are located at the bottom of the command dialogs.


5.2. Tar

ARCHIVE THE SELECTION

First, you have to specify the name of the archive (it's recommended to use the suffix .tar for a standard archive and .tar.gz or .tgz for a gziped one).

The available options are :


5.3. Untar

EXTRACT THE CONTENTS OF THE FIRST FILE OF THE SELECTION (MUST BE AN ARCHIVE)

The only available option is :


5.4. Gzip

COMPRESS THE SELECTION USING GZIP

The available options are :

NOTE : This will not create an archive is used on multiple files


5.5. Gunzip

UNCOMPRESS THE SELECTION USING GUNZIP

The available options are :


5.6. Encode

UUENCODE THE FIRST ITEM OF THE SELECTION

This command is mostly used to send binary files as text files. You have to specify the following informations :


5.7. Decode

UUDECODE THE FIRST ITEM OF THE SELECTION

This command is mostly used to restore binary files from text files. You don't have to specify any information.


5.8. Split

SPLIT THE FIRST FILE OF THE SELECTION IN FIXED SIZE FILES

This command lets you make multiple volume archives. This is a safer solution than the multivolume tar archives.

The options are :


5.9. Unsplit

RESTORE A LARGE FILE FROM THE FILES OF THE SELECTION

You have to specify the destination file in the text field.

The list at the left of the dialog shows the current order of the selected files (the topmost file is the first one).

You can change the order of the source files using the following buttons :

NOTE : The Unix command executed is :

cat file1 file2 file3 ... > destination

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