Manual: p7zip

p7zip(1)					   General Commands Manual					    p7zip(1)

NAME
       p7zip - Wrapper on 7-Zip file archiver with high compression ratio

SYNOPSIS
       p7zip [-c|--stdout|--to-stdout] [-d|--decompress|--uncompress] [-f|--force] [-h|--help] [-k|--keep] [--] [file ...]

DESCRIPTION
       7-Zip  is  a  file archiver supporting 7z (that implements LZMA compression algorithm featuring very high compression
       ratio), LZMA2, XZ, ZIP, Zip64, CAB, RAR (if the non-free p7zip-rar package is  installed),  ARJ,	 GZIP,	BZIP2,	TAR,
       CPIO, RPM, ISO, most filesystem images 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 7-Zip, and handles only the 7z format (the native format of 7-Zip), in‐
       ternally executing either 7za(1) or 7zr(1) command.

       With no switches passed in the command line, each given file argument is compressed into file.7z, and then removed.

       With the -d switch each passed file needs to end with the .7z extension and is decompressed. After the  decompression
       the original file is removed unless it contained more than one archived file.

       When used without any file argument, p7zip reads data from the standard input and compresses (or decompresses in case
       of -d) it into the standard output.

SWITCHES
       -c, --stdout, --to-stdout
	      Write output on standard output.

       -d, --decompress, --uncompress
	      Decompress file.

       -f, --force
	      Skip some checks and force compression or decompression.

       -h, --help
	      Print usage.

       -k, --keep
	      Do not delete input file.

       --     Treat all subsequent arguments as file names, even if they start with a dash.

SEE ALSO
       7z(1), 7za(1), 7zr(1), bzip2(1), gzip(1), zip(1)

AUTHOR
       Written for Debian by Mohammed Adnene Trojette. Updated by Robert Luberda.

7-Zip						       March 6th, 2016						    p7zip(1)