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How to split a big folder into multiple standalone archives using RAR or 7-Zip console?

Example: I want to add a 100 GB folder to archives of 10 GB each using RAR or 7-Zip console on Windows. But each archive must be independent/standalone and able to extract without the other archives. ...
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Use 7zip to create archives for each subfolder and file

Under Windows environment, I have a folder contains both subfolders and isolated files. The structure is like this: D:\main_folder subfolder1 subfolder2 file1.dat I want to use 7zip to make the ...
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How to unzip a multitude of .gz files with windows command prompt

I have a system that must accept and send data 24/7, and runs 3 instances of itself on 3 different virtual machines (nicknamed _1, _2, _3 for later use). In the logs the timestamp of the traffic is in ...
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How can I extract all archives in the current folder using command-line 7-zip, without running the 7z command multiple times?

How can I extract all archives in the current folder using command-line 7-zip, without running the 7z command multiple times? Running it multiple times seems inefficient, and requires slightly ...
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How to create password protected zip file in windows using cmd

I am looking to create a password protected zip file in Windows 10 using command prompt. The closet I've got is this powershell script that creates a zip file without a password. I am then calling it ...
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How to make compressed rar or zip files of certain size in Linux command line?

On my Ubuntu machine, I'd like to create compressed archive files of 10mb size for Windows users. So that a 25MB myfile becomes something like: myfile1.rar myfile2.rar myfile1.rar I could not find ...
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how to extract one or more archives recursively with one/multiple parts (rar or 7z) and deleting the archives after extraction?

I would be really, extremly happy if someone could help me with this problem. I want to be able to extract one or more files with only one or more parts and then deleting the archive(s). It doesn't ...
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Archive a directory to stdout with encrypting file names from Windows command line

I have a 1 TB directory that needs to be uploaded as a single encrypted file. There is no free space on a disk. I already have an app to upload a file from stdin but I don't know how to create the ...
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Making 7zip outputting files to a list instead of a 7z archive

I would like to know if this is possible, to make the files a 7zip command line would compress ( "7z a ..." or "7z u ..."), go into a text list instead of an actual archive. Like a ...
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Extract zip files and recompress them into 7zip files [duplicate]

I'd like my zip files to be extracted, then recompressed into 7zip files. Example: Before: $ ls 001.zip 002.zip 003.zip --snip-- 997.zip 998.zip 999.zip After: $ ls 001.7z 002.7z 003.7z --snip-- 997....
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How to delete a file inside a zip archive without decompressing?

I have a large zip file and I can't decompress it because I don't have enough space so I am going through all the files inside and first copying them to an outer folder and then deleting them. I can ...
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(Mac terminal) command line advice for extracting thousands of archives

I have literally thousands of archives containing Amiga adf files that I've downloaded and want to unpack them all. Can someone please tell me the command line i need to use in terminal in order to ...
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Create a 7z archive with some subfolders, preserving directory structure and including only files with certain extension

I have a main folder, inside that I have many folders, with many different files inside each folder. My goal is to create an archive, with only a subset of the subfolders, including only files with a ...
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7zip extract only if password protected

I have an application that runs this command: "C:\Program Files\7-Zip\7z.exe x myArch.zip -aoa -ppassword -odestinationFolder I want to make sure the application extracts only zip or 7z files that ...
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7zip command line archive folder in subfolder without the first subfolder inside the archive

having a folder structure like this: archive.cmd sub1.zip // create sub2.zip // create foos sub1 sub2 I want to generate sub1.zip and sub2.zip inside the main folder. the problem is that sub1....
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