linuxgeek: [LINUX_Newbies] Re: 7zip OR p7zip?

Friday, June 21, 2013

[LINUX_Newbies] Re: 7zip OR p7zip?

On 21Jun2013 14:10, highskywhy@yahoo.de <highskywhy@yahoo.de> wrote:
| | Is there also a workshop
| | for learning to use p7zip?
|
| The p7zip command is called "7z". So the command "man 7z" shows you
| the manual entry for that command. That should tell you how to use
| it.
| *
| Sorry I cannot understand.
|
| man 7zip
| no answer in terminal.

Looks like the 7zip commands do not come with manual pages.
That's pretty awful. Slack. Lazy. Shoddy.

Try running the command:

7z -h

and see it it has some useful messages. Desperate, but may work.

But you at least have a "p7zip" command with a man page.

| p7zip(1) General Commands Manual
| p7zip(1)
|
| NAME
| p7zip - Wrapper on 7zr, a 7-zip file archiver with high
| compression
| ratio

So, it is a wrapper for the 7zr command. Try "man 7zr". Might work.

| SYNOPSIS
| p7zip [-d] [-h|--help] [file]
| -h print this help
| -d decompress file

It is not a great manual page.

| SEE ALSO
| 7z(1), 7za(1), 7zr(1), bzip2(1), gzip(1), zip(1)

This says that there should be manual entries (and commands) named
7z, 7za and 7zr.

| So is it
| 7zip
| or pz7ip?

See above.

| Is the command to decompress:
|
| p7zip package.zip -d

It is pretty obvious from the SYNOPSIS section that the -d comes _before_ the filename.

| Is the command to compress:
|
| p7zip pic.jpg zip.zip

I doubt it.

Most UNIX people use tar (or sometimes cpio) and combine it with
gzip or bzip2 (often using tar's "z" or "j" options).

Zip and friends mostly get use on Windows, and have pretty clunky
and uninuitive command line options.

Cheers,
--
Cameron Simpson <cs@zip.com.au>

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