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pacodelumberg
Asked: 2013-09-06 00:07:37 +0800 CST

how to extract tar.7z files from command line? [duplicate]

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Is there a way to extract files of tar.7z format using command line tools in Ubuntu?

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  1. Best Answer

    Yes - the package p7zip / p7zip-full provides a command-line application to zip/unzip 7z files. The command is simply 7z.

    You can combine a 7z / tar call using a pipe:

    7z x -so yourfile.tar.7z | tar xf - -C target_dir

    where target_dir is a already-existing directory.

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    • Install p7zip-full if not already installed:

      sudo apt-get install p7zip-full

    • execute this command to extract .tar.7z file(go to directory where is your file, if myfile.tar.7z is your file name):

      7za x myfile.tar.7z
tar -xvf myfile.tar

    • That's it. Actually first command extracts in .tar file then next command extracts it completely.

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  3. Make sure that 7zip is installed, if not, just press Ctrl+Alt+T on your keyboard to open Terminal. When it opens, run the command(s) below:

    sudo apt-get install p7zip

    To install the command line utility do:

    sudo apt-get install p7zip-full

    Once done you can do the following to extract:

    7z e <file_name>.tar.7z

    To extract with full paths:

    7z x <file_name>.tar.7z

    To specify a path to extract to:

    7z x <file_name>.tar.7z -opath

    7z does not allow spaces between -o and path.

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