p7zip - zip file archiver with high compression ratio
p7zip [-d] [-h|--help] [--] [file...] -h print this help -d decompress file -- treats all subsequent arguments as file names, even if they start with a dash
p7zip(1) General Commands Manual p7zip(1)
NAME
p7zip - Wrapper on 7za, a 7-zip file archiver with high compression
ratio
SYNOPSIS
p7zip [-d] [-h|--help] [--] [file...]
-h print this help
-d decompress file
-- treats all subsequent arguments as file names, even if they
start with a dash
DESCRIPTION
7-Zip is a file archiver with the highest compression ratio. The pro-
gram supports 7z (that implements LZMA compression algorithm), ZIP,
CAB, ARJ, GZIP, BZIP2, TAR, CPIO, RPM and DEB formats. Compression
ratio in the new 7z format is 30-50% better than ratio in ZIP format.
p7zip is a gzip-like CLI wrapper script for 7zip
FUNCTION LETTERS
-d Decompress file
-h, --help
Print usage
-- Treats all subsequent arguments as file names, even if they
start with a dash
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+---------------+------------------+
|ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+---------------+------------------+
|Availability | compress/p7zip |
+---------------+------------------+
|Stability | Uncommitted |
+---------------+------------------+
SEE ALSO
7z(1), 7za(1), 7zr(1), bzip2(1), gzip(1), zip(1)
AUTHOR
Written for Debian by Mohammed Adnene Trojette.
NOTES
This software was built from source available at
https://java.net/projects/solaris-userland. The original community
source was downloaded from http://downloads.source-
forge.net/project/p7zip/p7zip/15.14.1/p7zip_15.14.1_src_all.tar.bz2
Further information about this software can be found on the open source
community website at http://p7zip.sourceforge.net/.
Mohammed Adnene Trojette October 31 2004 p7zip(1)