How to open a .7z file through terminal

Question

So I encrypted one of my directories using 7z. with a password. When I open it using the GUI it says Password required... what I want is to do this through terminal. First thing I tried was xdg-open but that brought me back to the GUI. When I tried to research this all it gave me was how to unzip the file. Thank you in advance.

http://askubuntu.com/questions/219392/how-can-i-uncompress-a-7z-file — Emilio Galarraga, Feb 14 '17 at 01:18

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 14 '17 at 01:19

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You only need the -p parameter for that. So if my password is 123 the line would read

7z x -p123 file.7z

answered Feb 14 '17 at 01:19

Luis Alvarado

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Gives me the error: Incorrect command line – Peyto Feb 14 '17 at 01:29
Did you even install the p7zip package? – Luis Alvarado Feb 14 '17 at 15:11
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@Peyto, this is the solution! – George Udosen Feb 14 '17 at 19:45
I have it installed and It doesn't work; still gives the error above – Peyto Feb 15 '17 at 03:11
@Peyto Please upload an image or the full line you are putting on the terminal and what version of Ubuntu you are using. – Luis Alvarado Feb 15 '17 at 04:01
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This answer is correct. I installed `p7zip-full` on Ubuntu 20.04. If you don't provide `-p` option. It will prompt for the password. – dedunu May 28 '20 at 19:00

How to open a .7z file through terminal

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