Linux Commands | Archive File Management | 7z Compress and Extract

Compress with 7z

7zr a {archive file name}.zip {file or directory to compress 1} {file or directory to compress 2}...

The following command compresses the files test1, test2, and test3 into an archive named test.7z.

7zr a test.7z test1 test2 test3

7zr x {archive file name}.zip

The following command extracts the test.7z archive.

7zr x test.7z

apt-get install p7zip

If installation with the command above does not work, search with the following command and install the appropriate package.

apt-cache search 7z

yum install p7zip

If installation with the command above does not work, search with the following command and install the appropriate package.

yum search 7z