P7zip is a quick port of 7z.exe and 7za.exe (command line version of 7zip) for Unix/Linux/Mac OS X. 7-Zip is a file archiver with highest compression ratio. Since 4.10, p7zip (like 7-zip) supports little-endian and big-endian machines. P7zip is a command-line port of 7-Zip for POSIX compliant systems such as Unix, OS X, BeOS, and Amiga. Created by Igor Pavlov, the 7-Zip compression type implements the LZMA compression algorithm, which is one of the highest compression ratios currently available. Since version 4.10 it supports little and big endian machines. Jul 02, 2011 How to compile p7zip source with Mac OS X Forum: Help. Creator: darktux1. 05-28 darktux1 - 2007-08-07 Hi, I'm a new MacOSX user, and I would like to know the command line to compile the p7zip source for my computer. Thanks you in advance for your help. Bet regards, DarkTUX1.
7zip is popular tool and compression format. 7zip supports wide range of platforms and operations systems like Windows , Linux , BSD, MacOS etc.
We will use following syntax for 7z command.
While using 7z there are two component as we can see in the syntax. One of them is commands. Commands are used to specify the operations like:
a: Add files to archiveb: Benchmarkd: Delete files from archivee: Extract files from archive (without using directory names)h: Calculate hash values for filesi: Show information about supported formatsl: List contents of archivern: Rename files in archivet: Test integrity of archiveu: Update files to archivex: eXtract files with full paths
Switches are used to specify some minor options like create SFX archive, compress shared files, set output log level. Here are some of them
P7zip Usage
--: Stop switches parsing-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
7z can compress files and folders. We will use a command to create new archive. The new archive file name will be mybackup.7z and we will put files named a.out , body.txt and folder cups . Here the
Here while starting 7z applications shows some information about the 7z application like build number, version, developer.
And than provided files and folders are scanned and the scan result is printed like 56 folders, 1550 files and total 142 MB.
After that the archive creation starts. Total items those will be compresses are show as 1606. Compression takes some time. 
After compression is completed new archive size is printed as 96 MB.
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In previous example we have created the archive file. Some time we need to add new files to the existing archive file. In this situations we will use same a option to add files.
In this operation mybackup.7z archive file all ready exists. Some information about the file is printed like path, compression type, size etc.
Than new file is added to the existing archive or compressed file named mybackup.7z .
Another useful operation is removing one or more files from an existing archive file. We will use d command with file we want to delete. In this example we want to remove file named fruits.txt from archive file mybackups.7z .
All files can be extracted with x command.
As we can see from screenshot there are some existing files which will be over write. There question whether we want to over write, skip, rename etc. We answer this as Always .
After extraction some statistical information like total folder count, file count size, compressed size is printed.
We can also list files of an archive with l command. We will list all files of mybackup.7z archive.
In the output we can see that files and folders are listed. While listing information like date, time , attributes, size and name are provided.