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Sat Nov 05, 2005 1:57 pm Reply and quote this post
Ok, sometimes it can be very usefull to unzip or zip from the command line, those who use linux have proberbly done this.. those using windows proberbly havn't :P

Ok, it's pretty basic stuff.. just download 7zip from 7-zip.org, and install it to wherever you want.

Go to the directory that you installed it in, and copy the \"7z.exe\" file to /windows/system32/.

You can now unzip files at the command line by typing \"7z -e coolfile.zip\", and your files will be unzipped. (If you want to see the other commands and such, use \"7z -h\" to show help.)

You could also change the name of \"7z.exe\" to something like \"zip\" if you wanted to, so that you could just type \"zip -e\" to extract files and such.

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Sun Nov 06, 2005 12:29 pm Reply and quote this post
Pretty cool. I have 7-zip installed already, but I never had to zip files from the command line. Could come in handy sometime though.
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