p7zip(1) General Commands Manual p7zip(1)
NAME
p7zip - Wrapper on 7-Zip file archiver with high compression ratio
SYNOPSIS
p7zip [-c|--stdout|--to-stdout] [-d|--decompress|--uncompress]
[-f|--force] [-h|--help] [-k|--keep] [--] [file ...]
DESCRIPTION
7-Zip is a file archiver supporting 7z (that implements LZMA compression
algorithm featuring very high compression ratio), LZMA2, XZ, ZIP, Zip64,
CAB, RAR (if the non-free p7zip-rar package is installed), ARJ, GZIP,
BZIP2, TAR, CPIO, RPM, ISO, most filesystem images 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 7-Zip, and handles only the
7z format (the native format of 7-Zip), internally executing either
7za(1) or 7zr(1) command.
With no switches passed in the command line, each given file argument is
compressed into file.7z, and then removed.
With the -d switch each passed file needs to end with the .7z extension
and is decompressed. After the decompression the original file is re-
moved unless it contained more than one archived file.
When used without any file argument, p7zip reads data from the standard
input and compresses (or decompresses in case of -d) it into the stan-
dard output.
SWITCHES
-c, --stdout, --to-stdout
Write output on standard output.
-d, --decompress, --uncompress
Decompress file.
-f, --force
Skip some checks and force compression or decompression.
-h, --help
Print usage.
-k, --keep
Do not delete input file.
-- Treat 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. Updated by Robert Lu-
berda.
7-Zip March 6th, 2016 p7zip(1)
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