7-Zip and unzipping from command line

Question

I am looking to use the command line 7-Zip to unzip a folder.

I have a file, say example.zip and want to unzip the contents of the file into a folder called example.

What are the commands I need to do this?

also FYI there is usually a distro package from their official repo. there is also the direct source which is from sourceforge (source and binary). — Trevor Boyd Smith, Sep 24 '19 at 17:11

score 107 · Accepted Answer · edited Dec 19 '16 at 18:41

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7z x example.zip -oexample

Usage: 7z <command> [<switches>...] <archive_name> [<file_names>...]
       [<@listfiles...>]

<Commands>
...
  x: eXtract files with full paths
<Switches>
...
  -o{Directory}: set Output directory

Edit:

7z x *.zip -o*

extracts all *.zip archives to subfolders with names of these archives.

Strangely, I had to go to the full help file to find this example; it isn't shown for 7z /?.

edited Dec 19 '16 at 18:41

Kenny

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answered Jan 14 '10 at 18:37

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good lord, i'm an idiot. thanks much, appreciate the time to point out i should of paid more attention to the manual LOL, thanks again – duhaas Jan 14 '10 at 18:49
actually, that isnt creating a folder based on name of file: 7za x -o"J:\IMC11N E\Batch\LehmanPoint\Reports" "993002005 S.20091228.zip" – duhaas Jan 14 '10 at 18:57
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`7z x` extracts with full paths; if you want to extract to current directory (ignore path info in the archive) use `7z e`. i find both handy at different times. – quack quixote Jan 14 '10 at 19:06
that worked, thanks again for taking the time to point that out: http://imagebin.ca/img/WhLSe0Sw.png – duhaas Jan 14 '10 at 19:07
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actually, it IS shown, if you type just 7z (minus the /?). – Jan 15 '10 at 02:54
Got my vote just by mentioning `7z x *.zip -o*` – рüффп May 16 '17 at 15:47
@Molly7244 in fact in the help you mention, there's no example with `-o*` using that wildcard in that place is not always supported by all programs. – рüффп May 16 '17 at 15:50

score 18 · Answer 2 · edited Jul 31 '10 at 18:39

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The syntax would be: 7z x <path to>\duane.zip -oc:\duane

This will extract the content of the archive duane.zip to the folder c:\duane with full paths.

Note: There is NO space between the switch -o and the destination folder. If that folder does not exist, it will be created automatically.

edited Jul 31 '10 at 18:39

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score 6 · Answer 3 · edited Jul 31 '10 at 18:41

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For p7zip:

7za e file.7z

edited Jul 31 '10 at 18:41

Peter Mortensen

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perfect answer!!! +1 :) – SagarPPanchal Nov 12 '19 at 04:27

score 3 · Answer 4 · edited Aug 22 '11 at 11:52

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Recursively extract a single file, or a selective set of files from an archive into the current folder:

7za.exe e art.archive -ir!*Art.jpg

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answered Sep 09 '10 at 18:54

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score 1 · Answer 5 · answered Sep 17 '20 at 09:10

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Without 7-zip powershell v3+ can extract a zip file:

Expand-Archive "Source" "Destination"

answered Sep 17 '20 at 09:10

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Powershell 5.1 can only extract .zips. e.g. for .gz "Expand-Archive : .gz is not a supported archive file format. .zip is the only supported archive file format." – timB33 Dec 18 '20 at 08:26

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