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General Information
- File Manager
- Command Line Version
- Syntax
- Exit Codes
- Commands
- Switches
- -- (Stop switches parsing)
- -ai (Include archive filenames) switch
- -an (Disable parsing of archive_name) switch
- -ao (Overwrite mode)
- -ax (Exclude archive filenames) switch
- -i (Include filenames)
- -m (Set Compression Method)
- -o (Set Output directory)
- -p (Set Password)
- -r (Recurse subdirectories)
- -scs (Set charset for list files)
- -seml (Send archive by email)
- -sfx (Create SFX archive)
- -si (Read data from StdIn)
- -so (Write data to StdOut)
- -slp (Set Large Pages mode)
- -slt (Show technical information)
- -ssc (Set Sensitive Case mode)
- -ssw (Compress files open for writing)
- -t (Set Type of archive)
- -u (Update options)
- -v (Create Volumes)
- -w (Set Working directory)
- -x (Exclude filenames)
-y (Assume Yes on all queries)
-o (set Output directory) switch
Specifies a destination directory where files are to be extracted.
This switch can be used only with extraction commands.
Syntax
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-o{dir_path}
- {dir_path}
- This is the destination directory path. It's not required to end with a backslash.
Example
7z x archive.zip -oc:Doc
extracts all files from the archive.zip archive to the c:Doc directory.
7z x *.zip -o*
extracts all *.zip archives to subfolders with names of these archives.
Commands that can be used with this switch
e (Extract), x (Extract with full paths)