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(7) 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
Source code for open source software components in Oracle Solaris can
be found at https://www.oracle.com/downloads/opensource/solaris-source-
code-downloads.html.
This software was built from source available at
https://github.com/oracle/solaris-userland. The original community
source was downloaded from http://downloads.source-
forge.net/p7zip/p7zip_16.02_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)