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7z

Last modified: 2023-03-28

The 7z command is a compression utility that is used to compress and decompress files in Unix, Linux, and other operating systems.

Compress

# a: Add files to archive
7z a example.zip example.txt
# With password
7z a example.zip example.txt  -p password

Decompress

# e: Extract files from archive
7z e example.zip
# With password
7z e example.zip -p password