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Hide files and folders with same name
I ran into an issue where I had to restart my computer during a large extraction process involving many zip files :(.
All the zip files contain a folder that has the name of the zip file (minus .zip)
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7-Zip Fails to Properly Unzip File via Context Menu and CMD, But Works in GUI
I'm currently encountering a problem with a .zip archive made using 7zip. Whenever I try to unzip it using the context menu (right click -> 7zip -> extract here) or using a bat script (or cmd) &...
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How to split a big folder into multiple standalone archives using RAR or 7-Zip console?
Example: I want to add a 100 GB folder to archives of 10 GB each using RAR or 7-Zip console on Windows. But each archive must be independent/standalone and able to extract without the other archives. ...
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Exclude all folders containing "discarded" with 7z
When I do
7z a test.zip -x!*discarded* test
with
test/
test/a.txt
test/subfolder/
test/subfolder/a.txt
test/subfolder/discarded/
test/subfolder/discarded/a.txt
test/subfolder2/a.txt
test/subfolder2/...
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Can I get the real CRC of RAR-compressed files?
In RAR5 archives, the CRCs of files seem to be hashed again with the modification time of the corresponding files (so the answer to this question doesn't work).
I EITHER need the real CRCs from the ...
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How do I extract a multi-level compressed file (recursion) with 7-zip in one command?
If possible, how can a file that's been compressed in multiple levels, like the following example.7z file, be extracted in a single command? Assume there is only one final uncompressed file.
example....
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Use 7zip to create archives for each subfolder and file
Under Windows environment, I have a folder contains both subfolders and isolated files. The structure is like this:
D:\main_folder
subfolder1
subfolder2
file1.dat
I want to use 7zip to make the ...
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WinRar and 7zip command to extract archive in new folder
Good morning
I would like to know if there is a command in WinRar and 7zip that allows me to extract a compressed file into a new folder with the same file name, equivalent to right-clicking and ...
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How can I extract a .zip file with 7zip with a cmd command?
I have the following problem:
I have a test.zip
This test .zip should be extracted to a "test" folder.
But i have a test1, test2..., test23. So no matter how its named, the folder should ...
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Optimizing 7z command line options for speed and compression ratio of large .bak files
I am currently dealing with a multitude of .bak files, each averaging around 300GB in size, and I need to compress them using the 7z command line. My primary objective is to strike a balance between ...
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When using 7zip from the command line, how can I have 7zip archive creation overwrite the existing archive?
Currently it updates the archive where as I would like the whole thing overwritten. Thanks.
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7-zip unzipping files via command line where the zip contains special characters
7-zip was used in Windows to compress a batch of folders that contained file paths and file names that uses special characters such as € and accented letters.
When the command line prompt is used to ...
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7z batch file create individual( 7z or zip) with a master PW
I use this command with notepad. Save it as 7z.bat in a folder you want to individually .7z or .zip the files. With -p{pasword} -mhe *.txt
@ECHO OFF
FOR %%i IN (*.*) DO (
ECHO "%%i" | FIND ...
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How to zip files in a specific date range
I'm looking for a way to zip files in a specific date range using a script.
For example I would need something that zips files in a specified folder with date modified being 2020.
I tried the solution ...
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7zip how to copy file from zip to another zip
In 7zip with 2 panel view, I have 2 different zips open on both sides. I can drag and drop one file from inside the zip on the left side inside the right hand side zip file but it only preserves the ...
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How to unzip all files in a folder to their respective sub-folders using 7-zip on Windows 10?
I see various posts/answers around this topic but the answers did not work.
Environment:
Windows 10
64-bit
7-zip is located in c:\program files\7-Zip
I have a folder d:\zipfiles with many *.zip ...
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How can I extract all archives in the current folder using command-line 7-zip, without running the 7z command multiple times?
How can I extract all archives in the current folder using command-line 7-zip, without running the 7z command multiple times? Running it multiple times seems inefficient, and requires slightly ...
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Is there a way to specify where .tmp file is created when updating an archive with 7zip command line?
When updating an existing zip file from command line, 7zip makes a copy of the existing zip file in the same directory and renames that copy with the suffix .tmp# where # is an integer.
Question:
Is ...
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Is there a way to choose between single-thread and multi-thread compression in 7z command line tool?
Is there a way to choose between single-thread and multi-thread compression in 7z command line tool?
I want to be able to make the choice so that a process that's meant to run in the background with a ...
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Write the list of content of a .rar or zip archive into a txt log file with 7z
I have a huge archive.rar and I would like to know its content without extracting it.
Using 7z on a Raspbian
Here are the commands i tried that did just write an empty output.txt file :
sudo 7z l ...
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Unzipping files in multiple folders into subfolders in the folders with same name as zip
I solved this problem, see answer below. Now my question is, how to make it tolerate directories with spaces in the dir name.
I'm looking for a command line for 7zip that achieves the following:
I ...
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Batch script for extracting archives with password list
I have 30 commonly used passwords. But I can't find any program to automatically try all passwords, so I want to create a batch script to read a txt file containing passwords and try those 30 ...
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7zip in bash script: create encrypted archive, but specify password in file instead of command line?
I can compress a 7zip archive with encryption like this:
7z a -pSECRET example.7z *.doc
But in this case I specify the password (SECRET) literally on the command line.
Is it also possible to specify ...
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What is the proper way to use the exclude arguments to exclude a directory in a specific directory when using 7z.exe
I know variations of this question have been asked before. I've look at the answers and none of them work for me.
Running on Windows, using PowerShell.
// Arguments are on separated by newlines only ...
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7-zip windows command to extract .rar from a networkshare recursively but keep files in the dir with the .rar file
Long story short I have one folder on a network share, that has 200+ other folders in them, some of which have .rar files in them. I want to extract all the .rar files IN PLACE. Not to another dir. ...
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searching a 7z archive using 7z l command to return only folders
On windows 10 I have a 7z archive with about 300 top level folders and each folder contains around 20-30 text files. I want to do a search with the 7z list command in powershell for certain folder ...
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Unzip a file with 7-zip (command-line) without unzipping contained zip files
I have a zip file that contains many files, including other zip files. I would like to extract the contents such that the extraction contains the files exactly as they are. However, when using 7-zip ...
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Windows 10 batch unzip multiple files with filename the same as zip directory name
I have about 60 files to unzip as you can see below:
know the 7zip option, which can unzip all of them, but the problem is, that the file inside doesn't match the zip directory name, which would be ...
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how to extract one or more archives recursively with one/multiple parts (rar or 7z) and deleting the archives after extraction?
I would be really, extremly happy if someone could help me with this problem.
I want to be able to extract one or more files with only one or more parts and then deleting the archive(s). It doesn't ...
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7zip - don't create zip file if file list is empty
I want to create an archive from *.txt files with 7zip. If there's no match for *.txt, no zip file should be created instead of any empty (22 bytes) zip file.
7z.exe a -sdel myarchive.zip *.txt
(I ...
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7zip CLI switches to achieve the same result then in the GUI
Most of the time I use the GUI for zipping stuff with 7zip.
Now I have to batch for about 100 files.
The result between the CLI settings and GUI settings is not the same.
CLI Settings:
7z a -t7z -mx9 ...
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7-Zip -- 7z.exe | 7zG.exe | 7zFM.exe (which one to use?)
7-Zip has multiple .exe files, which one do I use?
Every so often I would forget which way round these were, or would try and use one of the .exe's for the wrong purpose, so thought I would get to the ...
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7z command does not extract individual partition from dmg file
I have a file called BaseSystem.dmg which contains a hfs+ system image as well as other files.
flex@flex-ubuntu:~/Documents/MacOS2$ dmg2img -l BaseSystem.dmg
dmg2img v1.6.7 (c) vu1tur ([email protected]....
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Archive a directory to stdout with encrypting file names from Windows command line
I have a 1 TB directory that needs to be uploaded as a single encrypted file. There is no free space on a disk. I already have an app to upload a file from stdin but I don't know how to create the ...
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Batch File command to unlock password protected archives
I'm trying to write a batch file that will unarchive .7z files...extracting them to their original folder. The problem I'm having is adding the password to the code. Can someone help?
Thanks!
Here is ...
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How to confirm that 7zip line command matches output from GUI
I use the 7zip GUI very often and I am trying to automate some backup archive generation.
Here is the configuration that I can read on the GUI:
Archive Format : 7z
Compression Level : Ultra
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7zip archive won't decrypt with the password used for encryption
I'm trying to write a PowerShell script that will use 7zip to compress files with encryption individually.
$Password = Read-Host -Prompt 'Enter Password:'
dir *.txt | ForEach-Object -Parallel { & ...
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Unzip and 7z with password, without temporary files
Every now and then, I receive a download link for a 6 GB .zip data archive that I'd like to:
download
unzip
recompress with 7z, with a password
I'd like to avoid using temporary files for each ...
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Extract all rar files in a folder and subfolders using 7zip [closed]
I have the following folder structure in Windows:
D:\TV Shows
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\----Show
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| \----S01
| | |
| | \----E01
| | | |
| | | \----E01.rar (contains E01.mkv)
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Making 7zip outputting files to a list instead of a 7z archive
I would like to know if this is possible, to make the files a 7zip command line would compress ( "7z a ..." or "7z u ..."), go into a text list instead of an actual archive.
Like a ...
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Extract zip files and recompress them into 7zip files [duplicate]
I'd like my zip files to be extracted, then recompressed into 7zip files.
Example:
Before:
$ ls
001.zip
002.zip
003.zip
--snip--
997.zip
998.zip
999.zip
After:
$ ls
001.7z
002.7z
003.7z
--snip--
997....
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Loop extract zip files and handle nested zips
I have a command that will extract all zip files within a directory. The issue is you may have nested zip containers (zip inside a zip). What I would like it to do is go through one run, and then do a ...
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What are the correct tags to use in a .bat file for 7-zip to achieve the same settings as the GUI?
Source for current problem solving: Sevenip.osdn.jp but I cant get anything except -t7z -mx9 -m0=LZMA2 -mmt=1 -md=1024m -v10m to work.
I've been adapting Enteleform's code from this answer to a ...
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7Zip CLI multipart extraction issue. Proceeding part overwrites existing
I am looking for a way to use 7zip to decompress multipart achives via CLI.
So far I have the below which extracts as expected but instead of joining the parts, overwrites the existing contents with ...
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7zip command line equivalent of these settings?
I have a huge folder (360GB) of log files on a unix system, which I would like to have zipped up with PPMd, more specifically, these GUI settings.
I've read through the 7zip instructions but I ...
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Need Assistance Resolving Windows Batch For /R Infinite Loop with 7-zip
I have part of this script that I use to individually encrypt/zip files recursively in a folder structure.
It works, except it seems one particular folder it will go back and start zipping the ...
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extract .rar multiparts with bash
i run this script but this have a problem with extract rar multiparts
#!/usr/bin/env bash
shopt -s extglob nullglob
passw=(
passfoo
passbar
passfoobar
banana
chocolate
whiskey
vodka
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When compressing a large amount of files, 7zip stops while only returning "Killed"
Recently a computer of mine died and I'm trying to recover the files (650GB approximately) using a live ubuntu usb to compress the files and then move them to an external HDD. I don't just want to ...
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Windows Command Line / Batch File Check if 7zip password is correct?
In a Windows batch file is there a way to check if 7zip password for a zipped file is correct?
I'd like to check if it succeeds, continue with the script (with call or goto routine), and if it does ...
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Pass variable to filename in Windows FOR / DO Batch File
I have the following code where I systematically go through and compress each file individually. I don't care what the file name is, but I want it hidden more or less so will just call each file "file ...
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