p7zip

Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: October 31 2004
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NAME

p7zip - Wrapper on 7za, a 7-zip file archiver with high compression ratio  

SYNOPSIS

p7zip [-d] [-h|--help] [--] [file...]
    -h print this help
    -d decompress file
    -- treats  all  subsequent  arguments  as  file names, even if they start with a dash  

DESCRIPTION

7-Zip is a file archiver with the highest compression ratio. The program supports 7z (that implements LZMA compression algorithm), ZIP, CAB, ARJ, GZIP, BZIP2, TAR, CPIO, RPM and DEB formats. Compression ratio in the new 7z format is 30-50% better than ratio in ZIP format.

p7zip is a gzip-like CLI wrapper script for 7zip

 

FUNCTION LETTERS

-d

Decompress file

-h, --help

Print usage

--

Treats all subsequent arguments as file names, even if they start with a dash

 

SEE ALSO

7z(1), 7za(1), 7zr(1), bzip2(1), gzip(1), zip(1)

 

AUTHOR

Written for Debian by Mohammed Adnene Trojette.

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