XArchive

XArchive is an open source (GPL) archive creation and extraction utility for Linux using the GTK+ interface toolkit. What makes XArchive different from many other archiving tools is that XArchive is a control program for shell script 'wrappers' around the various command line tools that deal with the archive formats XArchive supports. Enabling a new format merely requires writing a new wrapper script and placing it in XArchive's wrapper directory. The developer states that once he had the first script written, writing the others took "less than an hour."

The program has a full graphical interface, with tabs in the main window for opening multiple archives simultaneously - a new instance is not required for each file. A toolbar in the main window allows access to all the main functions of the program, which combined with the single window nature, makes XArchive a good match for tiling window managers like dwm. There is a similarly-named program called Xarchiver which performs much the same function and was released around the same time but this, according to XArchive's author, is a coincidence.

Supported formats: rar, tar, zip, 7zip, arj, rpm, deb, and ace (only reading and extracting is supported for ace archives)

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