A file with 7z
extension is a file compressed with 7-Zip
format and can be extracted using p7zip
tool in Linux
. p7zip
is available for most Linux
systems such as Ubuntu
or Red Hat
variance and can easily be installed at the terminal.
You can extract or unzip 7z
files in Linux
directly from most of the default file managers such Files
for GNOME
or Dolphin
for KDE
once p7zip
is installed. It also provide 7z
command to be used from the terminal.
p7zip
(optional, if not already installed). $ sudo apt update && sudo apt install --assume-yes p7zip-full #Ubuntu and Debian [sudo] password for user: ##### snipped The following additional packages will be installed: p7zip Suggested packages: p7zip-rar The following NEW packages will be installed: p7zip p7zip-full 0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 1,546 kB of archives. After this operation, 5,908 kB of additional disk space will be used. ##### snipped
$ sudo yum install --assumeyes epel-release && sudo yum install --assumeyes p7zip # CentOS and Red Hat
$ mkdir target_directory
$ cd target_directory
7z
command. ~/target_directory$ 7z x ~/archive.7z 7-Zip [64] 16.02 : Copyright (c) 1999-2016 Igor Pavlov : 2016-05-21 p7zip Version 16.02 (locale=en_US.UTF-8,Utf16=on,HugeFiles=on,64 bits,2 CPUs Intel(R) Core(TM) i9-9880H CPU @ 2.30GHz (906ED),ASM,AES-NI) Scanning the drive for archives: 1 file, 189 bytes (1 KiB) Extracting archive: /home/user/archive.7z -- Path = /home/user/archive.7z Type = 7z Physical Size = 189 Headers Size = 189 Solid = - Blocks = 0 Everything is Ok Folders: 3 Files: 4 Size: 0 Compressed: 189
Common options for 7z
command:
$ 7z --help 7-Zip [64] 16.02 : Copyright (c) 1999-2016 Igor Pavlov : 2016-05-21 p7zip Version 16.02 (locale=en_US.UTF-8,Utf16=on,HugeFiles=on,64 bits,2 CPUs Intel(R) Core(TM) i9-9880H CPU @ 2.30GHz (906ED),ASM,AES-NI) Usage: 7z <command> [<switches>...] <archive_name> [<file_names>...] [<@listfiles...>] <Commands> a : Add files to archive b : Benchmark d : Delete files from archive e : Extract files from archive (without using directory names) h : Calculate hash values for files i : Show information about supported formats l : List contents of archive rn : Rename files in archive t : Test integrity of archive u : Update files to archive x : eXtract files with full paths <Switches> -- : Stop switches parsing -ai[r[-|0]]{@listfile|!wildcard} : Include archives -ax[r[-|0]]{@listfile|!wildcard} : eXclude archives -ao{a|s|t|u} : set Overwrite mode -an : disable archive_name field -bb[0-3] : set output log level -bd : disable progress indicator -bs{o|e|p}{0|1|2} : set output stream for output/error/progress line -bt : show execution time statistics -i[r[-|0]]{@listfile|!wildcard} : Include filenames -m{Parameters} : set compression Method -mmt[N] : set number of CPU threads -o{Directory} : set Output directory -p{Password} : set Password -r[-|0] : Recurse subdirectories -sa{a|e|s} : set Archive name mode -scc{UTF-8|WIN|DOS} : set charset for for console input/output -scs{UTF-8|UTF-16LE|UTF-16BE|WIN|DOS|{id}} : set charset for list files -scrc[CRC32|CRC64|SHA1|SHA256|*] : set hash function for x, e, h commands -sdel : delete files after compression -seml[.] : send archive by email -sfx[{name}] : Create SFX archive -si[{name}] : read data from stdin -slp : set Large Pages mode -slt : show technical information for l (List) command -snh : store hard links as links -snl : store symbolic links as links -sni : store NT security information -sns[-] : store NTFS alternate streams -so : write data to stdout -spd : disable wildcard matching for file names -spe : eliminate duplication of root folder for extract command -spf : use fully qualified file paths -ssc[-] : set sensitive case mode -ssw : compress shared files -stl : set archive timestamp from the most recently modified file -stm{HexMask} : set CPU thread affinity mask (hexadecimal number) -stx{Type} : exclude archive type -t{Type} : Set type of archive -u[-][p#][q#][r#][x#][y#][z#][!newArchiveName] : Update options -v{Size}[b|k|m|g] : Create volumes -w[{path}] : assign Work directory. Empty path means a temporary directory -x[r[-|0]]{@listfile|!wildcard} : eXclude filenames -y : assume Yes on all queries
7-zip
archive. ~/target_directory$ ls -R archive/ archive/: subfolder-00 subfolder-01 archive/subfolder-00: filename-01 filename-02 archive/subfolder-01: filename-01 filename-02
Nautilus
or Dolphin
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