[CentOS] 7-Zip for CentOS X86-64

Thu Mar 12 01:53:33 UTC 2015
John R Pierce <pierce at hogranch.com>

On 3/11/2015 4:24 PM, Mark LaPierre wrote:
> Does anyone know if ZCAD or 7-Zip is packaged for CentOS X86-64
> somewhere out there?

7za is the command line tool, I use the one in EPEL package p7zip... 
usage is akin to zip and rar, in that 7z is both a archive container AND 
compression format, unlike  gz, bz2, which are purely compression and 
rely on tar or another archiver to bundle multiple files into one.



$  7za --help

7-Zip (A) [64] 9.20  Copyright (c) 1999-2010 Igor Pavlov  2010-11-18
p7zip Version 9.20 (locale=en_US.UTF-8,Utf16=on,HugeFiles=on,24 CPUs)

Usage: 7za <command> [<switches>...] <archive_name> [<file_names>...]
        [<@listfiles...>]

<Commands>
   a: Add files to archive
   b: Benchmark
   d: Delete files from archive
   e: Extract files from archive (without using directory names)
   l: List contents of archive
   t: Test integrity of archive
   u: Update files to archive
   x: eXtract files with full paths
<Switches>
   -ai[r[-|0]]{@listfile|!wildcard}: Include archives
   -ax[r[-|0]]{@listfile|!wildcard}: eXclude archives
   -bd: Disable percentage indicator
   -i[r[-|0]]{@listfile|!wildcard}: Include filenames
   -m{Parameters}: set compression Method
   -o{Directory}: set Output directory
   -p{Password}: set Password
   -r[-|0]: Recurse subdirectories
   -scs{UTF-8 | WIN | DOS}: set charset for list files
   -sfx[{name}]: Create SFX archive
   -si[{name}]: read data from stdin
   -slt: show technical information for l (List) command
   -so: write data to stdout
   -ssc[-]: set sensitive case mode
   -t{Type}: Set type of archive
   -u[-][p#][q#][r#][x#][y#][z#][!newArchiveName]: Update options
   -v{Size}[b|k|m|g]: Create volumes
   -w[{path}]: assign Work directory. Empty path means a temporary directory
   -x[r[-|0]]]{@listfile|!wildcard}: eXclude filenames
   -y: assume Yes on all queries





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john r pierce                                      37N 122W
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