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I am looking to use the command line 7-Zip to unzip a folder.

I have a file, say example.zip and want to unzip the contents of the file into a folder called example.

What are the commands I need to do this?

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7z x duane.zip -oduane

Usage: 7z <command> [<switches>...] <archive_name> [<file_names>...]
       [<@listfiles...>]

<Commands>
...
  x: eXtract files with full paths
<Switches>
...
  -o{Directory}: set Output directory

Edit:

7z x *.zip -o*

extracts all *.zip archives to subfolders with names of these archives.

Strangely, I had to go to the full help file to find this example; it isn't shown for 7z /?.

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good lord, i'm an idiot. thanks much, appreciate the time to point out i should of paid more attention to the manual LOL, thanks again – duhaas Jan 14 '10 at 18:49
actually, that isnt creating a folder based on name of file: 7za x -o"J:\IMC11N E\Batch\LehmanPoint\Reports" "993002005 S.20091228.zip" – duhaas Jan 14 '10 at 18:57
7z x extracts with full paths; if you want to extract to current directory (ignore path info in the archive) use 7z e. i find both handy at different times. – quack quixote Jan 14 '10 at 19:06
that worked, thanks again for taking the time to point that out: imagebin.ca/img/WhLSe0Sw.png – duhaas Jan 14 '10 at 19:07
actually, it IS shown, if you type just 7z (minus the /?). – Molly7244 Jan 15 '10 at 2:54
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The syntax would be: 7z x <path to>\duane.zip -oc:\duane

This will extract the content of the archive duane.zip to the folder c:\duane with full paths.

Note: There is NO space between the switch -o and the destination folder. If that folder does not exist, it will be created automatically.

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For p7zip:

7za e file.7z
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Recursively extract a single file, or a selective set of files from an archive into the current folder:

7za.exe e art.archive -ir!*Art.jpg
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