7-Zip Manual

Documents 7-Zip 26.04

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Start and general
  • 7-Zip Start Page
  • General Information
  • 7z Format
  • Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
  • Supported formats
  • License for use and distribution
  • Performance
  • Thanks
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

General Information

The main features of 7-Zip

  • Powerful file manager
  • High compression ratio and high speed
  • Big number of supported archive formats
  • Additional command line version

See Also

  • License for use and distribution

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