7Z - build new zip - <Solved>
Posted: 08 Nov 2022, 19:08
How does one open 7Z to build a new zip file? 7Z works great for opening existing zip files and extracting a file or adding files to it but I'm trying to create a new one.
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guest@porteus:~/The ultimate goth collection$ 7z a goth.7z ./*.mp4
Scanning the drive:
7 files, 29243861 bytes (28 MiB)
Creating archive: goth.7z
Items to compress: 7
Files read from disk: 7
Archive size: 29007383 bytes (28 MiB)
Everything is Ok
guest@porteus:~/The ultimate goth collection$
cli is fine to invoke the app and gui is preferred to select the files to be added to it. I don't want to compress a whole folder just a file or two from 1 and a file or two from a different one.
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guest@porteus:~$ 7z -h
7-Zip [64] 17.04 : Copyright (c) 1999-2021 Igor Pavlov : 2017-08-28
p7zip Version 17.04 (locale=en_US.UTF-8,Utf16=on,HugeFiles=on,64 bits,8 CPUs x64)
Usage: 7z <command> [<switches>...] <archive_name> [<file_names>...]
<Commands>
a : Add files to archive
b : Benchmark
d : Delete files from archive
e : Extract files from archive (without using directory names)
h : Calculate hash values for files
i : Show information about supported formats
l : List contents of archive
rn : Rename files in archive
t : Test integrity of archive
u : Update files to archive
x : eXtract files with full paths
<Switches>
-- : Stop switches parsing
@listfile : set path to listfile that contains file names
-ai[r[-|0]]{@listfile|!wildcard} : Include archives
-ax[r[-|0]]{@listfile|!wildcard} : eXclude archives
-ao{a|s|t|u} : set Overwrite mode
-an : disable archive_name field
-bb[0-3] : set output log level
-bd : disable progress indicator
-bs{o|e|p}{0|1|2} : set output stream for output/error/progress line
-bt : show execution time statistics
-i[r[-|0]]{@listfile|!wildcard} : Include filenames
-m{Parameters} : set compression Method
-mmt[N] : set number of CPU threads
-mx[N] : set compression level: -mx1 (fastest) ... -mx9 (ultra)
-o{Directory} : set Output directory
-p{Password} : set Password
-r[-|0] : Recurse subdirectories
-sa{a|e|s} : set Archive name mode
-scc{UTF-8|WIN|DOS} : set charset for for console input/output
-scs{UTF-8|UTF-16LE|UTF-16BE|WIN|DOS|{id}} : set charset for list files
-scrc[CRC32|CRC64|SHA1|SHA256|*] : set hash function for x, e, h commands
-sdel : delete files after compression
-seml[.] : send archive by email
-sfx[{name}] : Create SFX archive
-si[{name}] : read data from stdin
-slp : set Large Pages mode
-slt : show technical information for l (List) command
-snh : store hard links as links
-snl : store symbolic links as links
-sni : store NT security information
-sns[-] : store NTFS alternate streams
-so : write data to stdout
-spd : disable wildcard matching for file names
-spe : eliminate duplication of root folder for extract command
-spf : use fully qualified file paths
-ssc[-] : set sensitive case mode
-ssw : compress shared files
-stl : set archive timestamp from the most recently modified file
-stm{HexMask} : set CPU thread affinity mask (hexadecimal number)
-stx{Type} : exclude archive type
-t{Type} : Set type of archive
-u[-][p#][q#][r#][x#][y#][z#][!newArchiveName] : Update options
-v{Size}[b|k|m|g] : Create volumes
-w[{path}] : assign Work directory. Empty path means a temporary directory
-x[r[-|0]]{@listfile|!wildcard} : eXclude filenames
-y : assume Yes on all queries
guest@porteus:~$
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guest@porteus:~/Test$ 7z a test.zip 1.txt 2.txt 3.txt
donald wrote: ↑09 Nov 2022, 07:237z a create zip archive with name test.zip and files 1.txt 2.txt 3.txtCode: Select all
guest@porteus:~/Test$ 7z a test.zip 1.txt 2.txt 3.txt
it is indeed not that obvious how 7z -h phrases itdonald wrote: ↑09 Nov 2022, 07:237z a create zip archive with name test.zip and files 1.txt 2.txt 3.txtCode: Select all
guest@porteus:~/Test$ 7z a test.zip 1.txt 2.txt 3.txt
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<Commands>
a : Add files to archive
Archive Manager uses the CLI programs to do the actual work. More often than not the CLI programs themselves offer more options when using the terminal than what Archive Manager itself offers.
I also realized that for a mere GUI for 7z 5.94 MB is much on the heavy side…