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p7zip(1) General Commands Manual p7zip(1)

NAME

p7zip - Wrapper on 7zr, a 7-zip file archiver with high compression ratio

SYNOPSIS

p7zip [-d] [-h|--help] [file]
-h print this help
-d decompress file

DESCRIPTION

7-Zip is a file archiver with the highest compression ratio. The program supports 7z (that implements LZMA compression algorithm), 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 7zip

FUNCTION LETTERS

-d
Decompress file
-h, --help
Print usage

SEE ALSO

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

AUTHOR

Written for Debian by Mohammed Adnene Trojette.
October 31 2004 Mohammed Adnene Trojette