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7-Zip is an open source file compression and archiving program. 7-Zip supports the 7z archive format as well as most standard archive/compression formats, and can unpack a wide range of file types. It pioneered the LZMA compression algorithm, which focuses on a strong compression ratio. 7-Zip ...

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cmd: include date and time to filename

How can I get a filename YYYY.MM.DD_HH.MM.SS.7z? It should work with any regional settings! The question is not duplicating 7zip CMD: Add current date to archive & include only last modified ...
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Extracting msi files using Linux

Related: How to extract files from MSI package? To extract the contents of a MSI installer using Linux, I can either use msiexec with wine or use 7zip. However, the latter does not preserve ...
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How to print dir tree of a 7zip archive?

Before extract archive.7z, I always check what in side: $ 7z l archive.7z ...SKIP... 2010-01-01 00:00:00 ..... 25856 7367 jsloader/resource/gre/modules/source-editor-textarea.jsm ...
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Seeking a GUI archiver with the ability to exclude files/folders with tickboxes

I've been searching for a GUI tool to create zip, 7-zip or tar archives that will allow me to include and exclude files and folders using a GUI. The dialog during archive creation should look ...
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Can the “copying” step from 7zip be sped up?

I use 7Zip to extract compressed files. I am currently working with a compressed 7GB RAR file that expands to 55.6GB. I understand the time it takes to unzip the file, but then I have to sit and ...
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Strip path segment while extracting using 7zip?

Is there a way to extract a 7z archive that contains all it's files within a directory without creating this directory in the file system but still keeping the sub-directory structure of the archive ...
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Extracting file using 7zip is taking too much time

I am trying to extract a zip folder using 7zip from command line. 7z x "%BackupFileDestination%" -o"%ExtractDestinationDir%" it is taking too much time to do so. Even hanging on few files. Any idea ...
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7-zip command line [closed]

Possible Duplicate: Create an archive from a directory without the directory name being added to the archive I have a folder that I want to zip completely: MyFolder | |--- ...
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Batch Extract with 7Zip

I receive a single zip folder with multiple zip folders inside it. Each individual zip folder contains one file. Is there a way to extract all of them in one step?
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unzip command line to sync destination folder

Is there a way to unzip a .zip to a folder and sync the contents of that folder with the contents of the .zip? I know you can do an -u(pdate) option that will update the folder with newer files, but ...
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7-zip archive with hard links?

I see that tar respects hard links $ ln clonezilla.iso test.iso $ tar cfvvJ archive.tar.xz *.iso -rw-r--r-- Steven 111149056 2012-03-25 07:34 clonezilla.iso hrw-r--r-- Steven 0 2012-03-25 ...
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How do I use 7-zip to add a folder to an archive, including only files with certain extensions?

I know that the 7-zip command to add a folder to an archive is, e.g.: "c:\program files\7-zip\7z" a testArchive.zip c:\myFolder And the command to add only files of a certain extension to an ...
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How do I enable multi-threaded LZMA2 using 7-zip 9.20 on the command line?

How do I enable multi-threaded LZMA2 using 7-zip 9.20 on the command line? I know this is normally done with the -t option like so: "-tzip" . How do I do this with LZMA2? I tried -tlzma and ...
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Extract 7z files with standard linux tools?

I know that you can extract .7z files with 7-zip. Is there another standard linux program that can do this? Maybe one of these tar bzip2 xz gzip
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Zip Utilities with Queue Functionality

Are there any programs similar to 7zip or PeaZip that support a "queue" functionality? I have multiple large files to unzip, and I would like to add them all to one single queue and have them ...
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.zip file created on Mac giving error in Windows 7 upon extracting

My friend compressed lots of photos into a zip archive using a MacBook, and uploaded it to Dropbox. I downloaded the zip and when I try to extract using WinRAR it gives this error, but extracts most ...
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Should you archive documents before backing up to the cloud? [closed]

I'm planning to add a cloud storage to my personal backup strategy. But now I wonder if it really is worth the trouble of compressing my documents and photos. The Open XML-format already have ...
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Passing a powershell variable as output directory in 7zip

I need to execute something like 7za e $file_path -oC:\Destination inside a powershell script, but substitute destination folder (C:\Destination) with a variable. Some like: 7za e $file_path ...
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What parameters are ok to pass to 7-zip .exe file creation while using the GUI

What parameters are ok to pass to the create archive wizard , in the 7-zip GUI, when you are creating a self extracting archive? The 7-Zip GUI has a field that allows you to type in multiple ...
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How to recursively extract all .tar and .tgz file zipped in a .tgz file using 7zip command line version

I'm using 7zip cmd line version in my app (written in Python on Win 7 box) to extract .tgz files. Although I'm using the -r switch, the .tar and .tgz subdirectories are not extracted. Can someone tell ...
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How to extract a incomplete 7zip file?

I almost(98%) downloaded a file.7z which contains multiple files. The missing part is in the middle of file.7z. So I only get 50% of all contained files when extracted with 7zip. How can I extract it ...
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create password protected ZIP files of dirs

I got some directories which contain some files, I want to zip them with password to individual file in batch mode. How to do this ? A_Dir > A_Dir.zip (with some password) B_Dir > B_Dir.zip (with ...
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Detecting image duplicates in 7-Zip archives on Windows?

I have a large image gallery, and a few years later I realized that I get more and more duplicates. :) Basically, my gallery consists of 7-Zip archives containing the image sets. I saw there are some ...
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How to fix 7z.tmp file created in Windows xp?

I created large .7z.tmp file without noticing the .tmp extension. Now I can't open it to salvage the files which were not kept elsewhere. I have seen code by Igore that looks like it fits this problem ...
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Why does 7-zip.exe return “Access is denied” with these arguments/parameters?

In a batch file: START "7-zip" /D "C:\Program Files\7-Zip\" "7z.exe" a -o testArchive F:\test Or, alone on the cmd as: 7z.exe a -o testArc C:users\user\desktop\test returns "Access is denied". I ...
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How can I control the order of files in a ZIP archive?

There are times when it is necessary for the files in a ZIP archive to be in a specific order (for example, I'm currently creating EPUBs, which require that the first entry in the ZIP be the mimetype ...
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Exctract files to a different folder

On a Windows XP machine, I have a zip file located on "c:\temp\mydata\okidata.zip"; using 7-Zip application, I would like to write a batch script and extract the file silently to the following ...
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How to extract 7z zip and have correct directory strucuture?

XXXhostXXX:temp XXXuserXXX$ ls -a dir1/ . .. a.txt b.txt XXXhostXXX:temp XXXuserXXX$ pwd /Users/XXXuserXXX/temp XXXhostXXX:temp XXXuserXXX$ 7z a -t7z dir1 dir1 7-Zip [64] 9.20 Copyright (c) ...
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extracting 7zip exe file

Extracting the 7z file, what is the best way to extract the 7zip file, currently 7zip file in format of .exec, now need to convert this into normal file, what is the best way to extract this ...
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'No such interface supported' when attempting to compress file through 7zip commandline

When I run the 7zip commandline: > echo foo | 7za a arc.7z -sifoo.txt Everything works as expected, but if I try to do: echo foo | 7za a arc.zip -sifoo.txt I get the following: ...
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How to merge .001, .002 … files from multiple drives?

Is there a way to merge multiple part files (.0001, .0002, etc.) from multiple drives? I have three part files of 5 GB each, but I have only 20 GB on the hard drive. I would need another 10 GB to ...
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Extract all Zip's in a directory (incl. subfolders) with a .bat file or dos command

I want to extract all .zip's and .rars in a folder and its children the structure is like this: MAIN_FOLDER -A folder - a.zip -a.rar -B folder - b.zip ...
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7zip to archive multiple files across many folders

I have a folder called lessons and 34 nested lessons in this folder course\ lesson1\updatedfile.html lesson2\updatedfile.html ... lesson34\updatedfile.html The lessons folder contains just the ...
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7zip command line to extract folder from archive

I'm using the 7zip commandline to extract a zip archive called abc.zip which is an archive with a folder called 'zipper' with three text files in it (a.txt,b.txt,c.txt). My problem is when I extract ...
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7-Zip command line option to include only one kind of file recursively

I want to add any txt file under a given path using 7-Zip. Looking at the help I tried this: 7za a -ir!*.txt bla.7z c:\initial\path This ended up including every single file, txt or not. Looking ...
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How to add files to specified folder in archive with 7zip command line

I have folders and files on my disk C:\builds\main.exe D:\components\a\testa.exe D:\components\b\testb.exe D:\components\c\testc.exe D:\dependencies\abc.dll Can I create an archive with 7z command ...
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How can I get a content-listing of a 7z-archive under Linux?

This answer and this one suggest p7zip to work with 7zip-archives under Linux. I can see option for compressing and decompressing. But how can I get a content-listing of an archive, without ...
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Can I use 7Zip under Linux? [closed]

Possible Duplicate: 7-zip for linux 7Zip is a good compression-format. Can I produce such files or decompress them under Linux? I don't want to use emulation like Wine.
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Installing 7zip in CentOS - succeeds; but can't use it

I am trying to install 7zip to CentOS yum install p7zip installed it. And now running this returns Package p7zip-9.20.1-2.el5.x86_64 already installed and latest version But [root@root ...
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I have most of the password for my 7z archive. How can I crack it?

I know most of my password. I think I've only got some capitalization and/or some character inversions in certain spots. What is the fastest way to try all combinations? If that still doesn't work ...
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Windows Batch File that zips files from ftp location? [closed]

Possible Duplicate: What kind of window's batch file allows zipping of ftp files? Basically I want to keep backups of my xbmc files on my xbox, that is on the home network. I already ...
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Create an archive from a directory without the directory name being added to the archive

I have the following folder structure root folder1 folder2 folder3 7za.exe I want to run the 7-zip command line tool to zip up all the files in folder1 to a zip file called ...
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How do I use 7-Zip for Windows to create .tar.gz archives?

How can I use the 7-Zip CLI (7za.exe) on Windows to create .tgz archives, as I use tar zcvf archive.tgz source_files on Linux?
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How can I compress multiple files into three files per archive with 7-Zip?

I have 100 files that look like this: 001.txt 002.txt 003.txt 004.txt ..... 100.txt I want to compress them like this: 001.txt 002.txt ----> archive01.7z 003.txt --------- 004.txt 005.txt ...
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Hash of a 7-Zip archive of a SVN export changes even when the files don't change. Is this by design?

I'm writing a PowerShell script that does the following. Does an SVN export of a Subversion repository to a temporary folder Zips the contents of the temp folder into a 7-Zip archive Compares the ...
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How to do “Files to store without compression” in 7-zip?

Is there any way to selectively prevent certain file types from compression in 7-zip, like in WinRAR? I'm trying to compress a huge folder (many gigabytes), and I don't want the already-compressed ...
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Files inside archives can't be opened inside 7zip

I open the archive inside 7zip, then double-click a file inside the archive to open it with the associated application, and I get "File not found" errors in the app (for example opening a image in ...
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7zip command line: Extract silently/quietly [closed]

Possible Duplicate: How to disable the output of 7-zip? I want to use 7z.exe from a command prompt to silently/quietly extract an archive. I do not want to use third party scripts or APIs. ...
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7zip: How to exclude files (not file types) using an exclude list file?

I know you can create a text file containing a list of files and then tell 7zip to reference this file so that it can exclude them from the archive, but I cannot find the syntax for that. Can someone ...
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Batch the “Extract Here” command

I would like to batch the "Extract Here..." command on a complete folder. Every type of archive should be unzipped into the current folder with the name of the archive file. I have found some BATCH ...

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