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title: "rclone archive"
description: "Perform an action on an archive."
versionIntroduced: v1.72
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---
# rclone archive

Perform an action on an archive.

## Synopsis

Perform an action on an archive. Requires the use of a
subcommand to specify the protocol, e.g.

    rclone archive list remote:file.zip

Each subcommand has its own options which you can see in their help.

See [rclone archive create](/commands/rclone_archive_create/) for the
archive formats supported.


```
rclone archive <action> [opts] <source> [<destination>] [flags]
```

## Options

```
  -h, --help   help for archive
```

See the [global flags page](/flags/) for global options not listed here.

## See Also

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* [rclone](/commands/rclone/)	 - Show help for rclone commands, flags and backends.
* [rclone archive create](/commands/rclone_archive_create/)	 - Archive source file(s) to destination.
* [rclone archive extract](/commands/rclone_archive_extract/)	 - Extract archives from source to destination.
* [rclone archive list](/commands/rclone_archive_list/)	 - List archive contents from source.


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