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Posted: Sun Dec 03, 2006 9:28 am Post subject: 7zip - p7zip linux usage (extracting >4gb zip files in li
7zip is becoming a popular archive format on Windows. There is also a linux port known as p7zip. 7zip files end with the extension 7z.
Here is brief usage to extract a 7zip file in linux:
Unzipping large files on linux
Thanks to Thomas Stromberg for describing this increasingly essential tool p7zip for extracting zip files (usually created using PKZip 4.50) which contain files larger than 4 gigabytes. You'll know you need it if you see a skipping: warning containing the following message from unzip:
need PK compat. v4.5 (can do v2.1)
Download p7zip and build it using:
make make install
Use it like this to extract the files from the big zip archive:
7za x bigfile.zip
or
7za x archive.7z
Notes: p7zip is also available in gentoo portage, so you can simply emerge p7zip by using the command:
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