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Wolfy
Asked: 2010-11-17 00:04:06 +0800 CST

How do I extract a password protected .7z file?

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Can someone tell me how can I extract a password protected .7z file in Ubuntu server?

(I know the password, I just need a program to do so and an example of how to use said program...)

server command-line extract

2 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    Install p7zip-full on the server first and then run this to extract a z7 archive called test.7z, encrypted with the password password:

    7z x test.7z -ppassword

    As JanC adds below, you can omit the whole -ppassword flag and it will just ask you for the password on extraction:

    oli@bert:~/Desktop$ 7z x test.7z

7-Zip 9.04 beta  Copyright (c) 1999-2009 Igor Pavlov  2009-05-30
p7zip Version 9.04 (locale=en_GB.UTF-8,Utf16=on,HugeFiles=on,8 CPUs)

Processing archive: test.7z

Enter password (will not be echoed) : <<I typed the password here>>

Extracting  botch2

Everything is Ok

Folders: 1
Files: 0
Size:       0
Compressed: 118
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  2. there is a rarcrack to do this task. It can handle .rar, .zip and .7z files. Check out this article:

    http://mediakey.dk/~cc/howto-crack-rar-7z-and-zip-files-in-linux/

    Hope this will help

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