7-Zip is a file archiver with a high compression ratio.
Download 7-Zip 19.00 (2019-02-21) for Windows:
The corresponding gunzip and bunzip2 commands can be used to uncompress said archive, or you can just use flags on the tar command to perform the uncompression. If you are referring specifically to the Zip file format, you can simply use the zip and unzip commands. To compress: zip squash.zip file1 file2 file3 or to zip a directory. Zip – Command to package and compress (archive) files. Unzip – Command to list, test and extract compressed files in a ZIP archive. Open a shell prompt and type the following commands. Task: Create a Zip File. To create a zip file, enter.
Link | Type | Windows | Size |
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Download | .exe | 32-bit x86 | 1.2 MB |
Download | .exe | 64-bit x64 | 1.4 MB |
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Download 7-Zip 21.01 alpha (2021-03-09) for Windows:
Unzip File Mac Command Line Linux
Link | Type | Windows | Size |
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Download | .exe | 32-bit x86 | 1.2 MB |
Download | .exe | 64-bit x64 | 1.4 MB |
Download | .exe | 64-bit ARM64 | 1.5 MB |
License
7-Zip is free software with open source. The most of the code is under the GNU LGPL license. Some parts of the code are under the BSD 3-clause License. Also there is unRAR license restriction for some parts of the code. Read 7-Zip License information.
You can use 7-Zip on any computer, including a computer in a commercial organization. You don't need to register or pay for 7-Zip.
The main features of 7-Zip
- High compression ratio in 7z format with LZMA and LZMA2 compression
- Supported formats:
- Packing / unpacking: 7z, XZ, BZIP2, GZIP, TAR, ZIP and WIM
- Unpacking only: AR, ARJ, CAB, CHM, CPIO, CramFS, DMG, EXT, FAT, GPT, HFS, IHEX, ISO, LZH, LZMA, MBR, MSI, NSIS, NTFS, QCOW2, RAR, RPM, SquashFS, UDF, UEFI, VDI, VHD, VMDK, WIM, XAR and Z.
- For ZIP and GZIP formats, 7-Zip provides a compression ratio that is 2-10 % better than the ratio provided by PKZip and WinZip
- Strong AES-256 encryption in 7z and ZIP formats
- Self-extracting capability for 7z format
- Integration with Windows Shell
- Powerful File Manager
- Powerful command line version
- Plugin for FAR Manager
- Localizations for 87 languages
7-Zip works in Windows 10 / 8 / 7 / Vista / XP / 2019 / 2016 / 2012 / 2008 / 2003 / 2000.
p7zip - the port of the command line version of 7-Zip to Linux/Posix.
On 7-Zip's SourceForge Page you can find a forum, bug reports, and feature request systems.
Compression ratio
We compared 7-Zip with WinRAR 5.20.
FILE SETS: Mozilla Firefox 34.0.5 for Windows and Google Earth 6.2.2.6613 for Windows.
Unzip Tar File Mac Command Line
Archiver | Mozilla Firefox | Google Earth | ||
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65 files 85 280 391 bytes | 483 files 110 700 519 bytes | |||
Compressed size | Ratio | Compressed size | Ratio | |
7-Zip 9.35 -mx | 39 357 375 | 100% | 15 964 369 | 100% |
WinRAR 5.20 -m5 -s -ma5 -md128m | 41 789 543 | 106% | 17 035 432 | 107% |
Compression ratio results are very dependent upon the data used for the tests. Usually, 7-Zip compresses to 7z format 30-70% better than to zip format. And 7-Zip compresses to zip format 2-10% better than most of other zip compatible programs.
Create and extract a .tar.gz archive using command line
Brett PopoleoTo create a tar.gz archive from a given folder you can use the following command
tar-zcvf tar-archive-name.tar.gzsource-folder-name
This will compress the contents of source-folder-name to a tar.gz archive named tar-archive-name.tar.gz
Unzip 7z File Mac Command Line
To extract a tar.gz compressed archive you can use the following command
tar-zxvf tar-archive-name.tar.gz
This will extract the archive to the folder tar-archive-name.
To Preserve permissions
tar-pcvzf tar-archive-name.tar.gzsource-folder-name
Switch the ‘c’ flag to an ‘x’ to extract (uncompress).
tar-pxvzf tar-archive-name.tar.gz