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Jeremy French
Asked: 2009-08-18 07:20:47 +0800 CST

get error "incorrect command line" when trying to extract 7zip archive on linux

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I copied a large zip file to a Linux server, I didn't realise at the time that it was a 7zip file.

After some messing around I installed 7zip with "yum install p7zip" however when I try to extract the archive with 

7za -x ./myarchive.zip

I get the following output

7-Zip (A) 4.61 beta Copyright (c) 1999-2008 Igor Pavlov 2008-11-23 p7zip Version 4.61 (locale=C,Utf16=off,HugeFiles=on,1 CPU)

Error: Incorrect command line

Google is not my friend with this error, so I thought that I would try here. Debated as to if this should be SF or SU, but as it is not my computer I think it is SFs' domain.

linux

2 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    Are you sure it takes the "-x" and not just "x"?

    And why is the file a .zip instead of the 7zip extension ".7z"?

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  2. You just have to indicate the parameters without "-" In your case, "7za x ./myarchive.zip" is the right structure to decompress your archive

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