7-Zip is a file compression archiving program
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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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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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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 <F:> testArchive F:\test
Or, alone on the cmd as:
7z.exe a -o <C:\users\user\Desktop> testArc ...
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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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'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? [duplicate]
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? [duplicate]
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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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7-Zip command line: Extract silently/quietly [duplicate]
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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How to do “legacy” ZIP compression with 7zip?
We have an old application that requires zip files to be "legacy" format. I would really love to get rid of the adware ridden WinZip and use 7zip. However, I don't know which compression options and ...
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How to search the content of archives (7z)?
I am looking for a way to search the content of files inside of 7z archive without having to unpack the archive. I have many 7z archives with code inside them and I'd like to search them.
Is there a ...
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Is there a way to make 7zip temporarly uncompress the whole archive when double-clicking on an exe?
In WinRAR, one feature which I like is the fact that you can set it to uncompress the whole archive in a temporary place, if you double-click on an .exe file inside the archive opened in WinRAR.
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Extract a certain file from an archive with 7zip from the command line
If I have an archive,e.g. some.zip that contains one or more files. How can I extract with 7zip only one file(I know the name of the file) from the command line in Windows?
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How to make a split archive for DVD storage where single files are extracted from the set without needing all the DVD's
I'm getting ready to 7z/rar/whatever 1125 files (About 300GB) into a split archive with each piece being 4,700,372,992 bytes. The idea is that I can put each split onto a DVD+R that will fill the DVD ...
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How do I create seperate 7z files from each selected directory with 7zip command line?
FOR %i IN (*.*) DO 7z.exe a "%~ni.7z" "%i"
Does the job for each selected file.
However I've got tons of directories (with files inside them obviously) I need to pack.
Say I have d:\dir1, d:\dir2, ...
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Compress big files with 7-zip, and uncompress with WIndows XP WITHOUT 7-zip
I'm using the very latest release of 7-zip to compress some files from the command line
on my Windows XP machine.
All the small archives work fine... but the bigger ones... always give "invalid or ...
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How do I convert my existing zip files to 7z with 7-zip comand line?
I'd like to convert a couple thousand zip files to 7z, with maximum compression and multithreading enabled.
Also in another place. Like c:\temp\file.zip to f:\converted\file.7z
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How do I create seperate zip files for each selecterd file/dir in 7zip?
This is the internal zip packer from Total Commander:
However I want to use my 7zip packer. When I selecet 5 files, I get 5 seperate .zip archives for each selected file. How do I do that in 7zip?
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How to give the 7z file the name of the current directory?
How to compress a directory with 7zip and give the archive file the name of the current directory?
I use the following command line:
"C:\Program Files\7-Zip\7z.exe" a -mx9 archive.7z -mhe=on
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How can I evaluate the best choice of archive format for compressing files?
In general, I've observed the following:
Linux-y files or tools use bzip2 or gzip for distributing archives
Windows-y files or tools use ZIP for distributing archives
Many people use 7-Zip for ...
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Convert .tar.gz/.tar.bz2 to .7z in batch?
How do I convert .tar.gz and .tar.bz2 files to .7z files using the command line?
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What is the reason for 7-zip / WinRAR to first unzip files to “temp” and then move them to destination?
What is the reason for 7-zip / WinRAR to first unzip files to "temp" and then move them to destination?
I do not see any advantage against just directly unzipping to destination. It is really ...
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How do I uncompress vmlinuz to vmlinux?
I have already tried uncompress, gzip, and all other solutions that come up as google results and these have not worked for me.
To get just the image search for the GZ signature - 1f 8b 08 00.
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Is there any way to get portable apps to register in the Explorer context menu?
I am using more and more portable apps which make switching from computer to computer much easier.
However for programs such as 7zip which makes sense really only if it is a choice in the context ...
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Scheduled backup of certain directories in Windows 7
I'm using Windows 7 and I need to schedule a daily backup that does the following:
The schedule needs to run daily at 7pm
The backup needs to generate a compressed archive of selected backup ...
