7za extraction | Cheatsheet¶

Parallel Extraction with 4 Threads¶

7za x -mmt4 file1.7z file2.7z

List and dump data to stdout¶

7z x archive.rar -so

Retrieve comprehensive information about the files within a RAR archive¶

7z l -slt archive.rar

List directories up to a maximum depth of 2 using 7z and awk¶

7z l archive.rar | awk 'BEGIN {FS="/" } !NF || NF<=3'

Extract a standard .zip file¶

7za x archive.zip

Extract a .tar file¶

7za x archive.tar

Extract a .tar.gz (gzip-compressed) file¶

7za x archive.tar.gz

Extract a .tar.bz2 (bzip2-compressed) file¶

7za x archive.tar.bz2

Extract a .tar.xz (xz-compressed) file¶

7za x archive.tar.xz

Extract a .gz (gzip-compressed) file¶

7za x archive.gz

Extract a .bz2 (bzip2-compressed) file¶

7za x archive.bz2

Extract a .xz (xz-compressed) file¶

7za x archive.xz

Extract a password-protected archive (provide password when prompted)¶

7za x -p<password> archive.zip

Extract a specific file from an archive¶

7za e archive.zip file.txt

Extract an archive to a specific directory¶

7za x -o/path/to/destination archive.zip

Extract an archive preserving directory structure¶

7za x -spf2 archive.zip

Extract an archive silently (without showing progress)¶

7za x -bd archive.zip

Extract an archive with full paths (preserve full path of archived files)¶

7za x -spf archive.zip

Extract an archive using a specific method (e.g., LZMA2 compression)¶

7za x -mm=LZMA2 archive.7z

Extract an archive and overwrite existing files without prompting¶

7za x -aoa archive.zip

Extract an archive with a specific character encoding for filenames¶

7za x -scsUTF-8 archive.zip

Extract only files matching a specific pattern¶

7za x archive.zip -ir!pattern*

Extract files to stdout (standard output)¶

7za e -so archive.zip > output.txt

Extract files using wildcards¶

7za e archive.zip *.txt

Extract files with specific attributes (e.g., read-only)¶

7za e archive.zip -r -sdel -y -o/path/to/destination -stl -x!*.txt

Extract files using a list file¶

7za x -i@list.txt archive.zip

Extract files in a specific order¶

7za x -aoa -ax!file1.txt -ax!file2.txt archive.zip

Extract files with a specific timestamp¶

7za x archive.zip -ts<date>

Extract files while preserving file attributes¶

7za x -spf archive.zip -aoa -r