p7zip(1)						      General Commands Manual							  p7zip(1)

NAME

       p7zip - Wrapper on 7zr, a 7-zip file archiver with high compression ratio

SYNOPSIS

       p7zip [-d] [-h|--help] [file]
	   -h print this help
	   -d decompress file

DESCRIPTION

       7-Zip  is  a file archiver with the highest compression ratio. The program supports 7z (that implements LZMA compression algorithm), LZMA2,
       XZ, ZIP, Zip64, CAB, RAR (if the non-free p7zip-rar package is installed), ARJ, GZIP, BZIP2, TAR, CPIO, RPM, ISO,  most	filesystem  images
       and DEB formats. Compression ratio in the new 7z format is 30-50% better than ratio in ZIP format.

       p7zip is a gzip-like CLI wrapper script for 7zip

FUNCTION LETTERS

       -d     Decompress file

       -h, --help
	      Print usage

SEE ALSO

       7z(1), 7za(1), 7zr(1), bzip2(1), gzip(1), zip(1)

AUTHOR

       Written for Debian by Mohammed Adnene Trojette.

Mohammed Adnene Trojette					  October 31 2004							  p7zip(1)