7zip is a free open source software that functions to compress or unpack an archive developed by Igor Pavlov and was first released in 1999. I use 7zip because I think 7zip has a high compression ratio capability. Apart from that 7zip also has many compression formats such as 7z, ZIP, gzip, bzip2, xz, tar, and WIM. If on the Windows Operating System you usually use WinRAR, on Linux I prefer to use this 7zip. How to install 7zip on linux is quite easy, here’s how:
Install 7zip on Fedora / CentOS
yum install epel-release
yum install p7zip p7zip-plugins
Install 7zip on Debian / Ubuntu
apt-get install p7zip-full p7zip-rar
and then, for the command to use it you can use 7z
or 7za
.
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The difference is, for 7z
it will use an external module when running it, while for 7za
it uses a built-in module where compression / decompression support is limited to 7z, ZIP, gzip, bzip2, Z, and tar formats. For me, because I usually use archive files that are usually / commonly used I mostly use 7za
. Here’s an example of its use:
- See the contents of the archive
7za l archives.7z
- Unpacking archives
7za x archives.7z
- Compress archives
7za a archives.7z file_1 file_2 file_3 file_n
- View all available commands and options
7za --help
I always use this 7zip every time I back up the database at my office, just imagine, the database that I backup with a size of 18GB can be compressed to 800MB with this 7zip, it’s amazing 😆 .
Well, that’s a little information that I can share about how to install 7zip on Linux. Hopefully this information can be useful, Thank you ^^,
SOURCE : Wikipedia
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