Compression Commands

7z Linux Command

High-compression archiver supporting many formats (7z, zip, rar, tar, etc.).

What does 7z do?

High-compression archiver supporting many formats (7z, zip, rar, tar, etc.).

7z a archive.7z files

7z a backup.7z /home/user/documents

Decompresses a .xz file back to its original form.

Archives multiple files into a single tarball. Use -czf to compress with gzip.

Compresses files using the xz (LZMA2) algorithm — very high compression ratio.

Compresses a single file using the gzip algorithm (replaces original with .gz).

Extracts files from a ZIP archive.

Decompresses a .gz file back to its original form.