Commands tagged 7z (6)

  • Using 7z to create archives is OK, but when you use tar, you preserve all file-specific information such as ownership, perms, etc. If that's important to you, this is a better way to do it.


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    tar cf - /path/to/data | 7z a -si archivename.tar.7z
    slashdot · 2009-07-14 14:21:30 4
  • Create an image of "device" and send it to another machine through the network ("target" and "port" sets the ip and port the stream will be sent to), outputting a progress bar On the machine that will receive, compress and store the file, use: nc -l -p <port> | 7z a <filename> -si -m0=lzma2 -mx=9 -ms=on Optionally, add the -v4g switch at the end of the line in order to split the file every 4 gigabytes (or set another size: accepted suffixes are k, m and g). The file will be compressed using 7z format, lzma2 algorithm, with maximum compression level and solid file activated. The compression stage will be executed on the machine which will store the image. It was planned this way because the processor on that machine was faster, and being on a gigabit network, transfering the uncompressed image wasn't much of a problem.


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    dd if=<device> | pv | nc <target> <port>
    quitaiskiluisf · 2012-01-27 18:37:36 14
  • Creates a solid archive with the highest possible compression (Ultra). Advantage of 7z is that it will use all the processor cores to create the archive. (Ok. at least version 9.04 does) Show Sample Output


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    7z a -mx=9 -ms=on archive.7z files_for_archiving/
    nssy · 2011-10-22 09:26:42 4
  • Compress files or a directory to xz format. XZ has superior and faster compression than bzip2 in most cases. XZ is superior to 7zip format because it can save file permissions and other metadata data.


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    tar -cJf myarchive.tar.xz /path/to/archive/
    Sepero · 2014-03-13 03:34:18 3
  • compress directory archive with xz compression, if tar doesn't have the -J option (OSX tar doesn't have -J)


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    tar -cvf - /path/to/tar/up | xz - > myTarArchive.tar.xz
    razerwolf · 2014-03-18 19:51:50 4
  • Magic line will extract almost all possible archives from current folder in its own folders. Don't forget to change USER name in sudo command. sed is used to create names for folders from archive names w/o extension. You can test sed expression, used in this command: arg='war.lan.net' ; x=$(echo $arg|sed 's/\(.*\)\..*/\1/') ; echo $x If some archives can't be extracted, install packages: apt-get install p7zip-full p7zip-rar Hope this will save a lot of your time. Enjoy.


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    for ARG in * ; do sudo -u USER 7z x -o"$(echo $ARG|sed 's/\(.*\)\..*/\1/')" "$ARG" ; done
    n158 · 2012-12-31 19:47:24 5

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