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p7zip — Wrapper of 7-Zip file archiver with high compression ratio. Internally executes either 7za or 7zr co

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Problem

How to use the p7zip command: Wrapper of 7-Zip file archiver with high compression ratio. Internally executes either 7za or 7zr command. More information: <https://manned.org/p7zip>.

Solution

p7zip — Wrapper of 7-Zip file archiver with high compression ratio. Internally executes either 7za or 7zr command. More information: <https://manned.org/p7zip>.

Archive a file, replacing it with a 7zipped compressed version:
p7zip {{path/to/file}}


Archive a file keeping the input file:
p7zip {{[-k|--keep]}} {{path/to/file}}


Decompress a file, replacing it with the original uncompressed version:
p7zip {{[-d|--decompress]}} {{compressed.ext}}.7z


Decompress a file keeping the input file:
p7zip {{[-d|--decompress]}} {{[-k|--keep]}} {{compressed.ext}}.7z


Skip some checks and force compression or decompression:
p7zip {{[-f|--force]}} {{path/to/file}}

Code Snippets

Archive a file, replacing it with a 7zipped compressed version

p7zip {{path/to/file}}

Archive a file keeping the input file

p7zip {{[-k|--keep]}} {{path/to/file}}

Decompress a file, replacing it with the original uncompressed version

p7zip {{[-d|--decompress]}} {{compressed.ext}}.7z

Decompress a file keeping the input file

p7zip {{[-d|--decompress]}} {{[-k|--keep]}} {{compressed.ext}}.7z

Skip some checks and force compression or decompression

p7zip {{[-f|--force]}} {{path/to/file}}

Context

tldr-pages: common/p7zip

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