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General Information
7z Format
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
Supported formats
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Performance
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File Manager

7-Zip File Manager
About Dialog Box
Benchmark
Menu Items and Shortcut Keys
Options Dialog Box
Delete Temporary Files

File Manager plugins

7-Zip Plugin
Plugins
Add to Archive Dialog Box
Extract Dialog Box

Command line: overview

Command Line Version User's Guide
Exit Codes from 7-Zip
Command Line Syntax

Command line: commands

Command Line Commands
a (Add) command
b (Benchmark) command
d (Delete) command
e (Extract) command
x (Extract with full paths) command
h (Hash) command
l (List contents of archive) command
rn (Rename) command
t (Test integrity of archive) command
u (Update) command

Command line: switches

Command Line Switches
-ax (Exclude archive filenames) switch
-ai (Include archive filenames) switch
-an (Disable parsing of archive_name) switch
-bb (Set output log level) switch
-spf (Use fully qualified file paths) switch
-scs (Set charset for list files) switch
-seml (Send archive by email) switch
-x (Exclude filenames) switch
-i (Include filenames) switch
-slp (Set Large Pages mode) switch
-slt (Show technical information) switch
-m (Set compression Method) switch
-o (set Output directory) switch
-ao (Overwrite mode) switch
-p (set Password) switch
-r (Recurse subdirectories) switch
-sa (set Archive name mode) switch
-scc (Set charset for console input/output) switch
-scrc (Set hash function) switch
-sdel (Delete files after including to archive) switch
-sfx (Create SFX archive) switch
-ssw (Compress files open for writing) switch
-sni (Store NT security information) switch
-sns (Store NTFS alternate Streams) switch
-spf (Use fully qualified file paths) switch
-spf (Require path separator mark for directory path) switch
-ssc (Set Sensitive Case mode) switch
-si (read data from stdin) switch
-so (write data to stdout) switch
-stl (Set archive timestamp from the most recently modified file) switch
-- (Stop switches parsing) switch
-stx (Exclude archive type) switch
-t (set Type of archive) switch
-u (Update options) switch
-v (Create Volumes) switch
-w (set Working directory) switch
-y (assume Yes on all queries) switch

Text files

7-Zip Manual /7zC.txt
7-Zip Manual /7zFormat.txt
7-Zip Manual /License.txt
7-Zip Manual /Methods.txt
7-Zip Manual /copying.txt
7-Zip Manual /lzma.txt
7-Zip Manual /readme.txt
7-Zip Manual /src-history.txt
7-Zip Manual /unRarLicense.txt

Plugins

The 7-Zip File Manager can use internal and external plugins.

Currently 7-Zip uses the following plugins:

7-Zip: Plugin for manipulating archives.

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