7-Zip command line: Extract silently/quietly

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I want to use 7z.exe from a command prompt to silently/quietly extract an archive. I do not want to use third-party scripts or APIs. Does 7-Zip have native support for quiet command-line extraction?

Answer 1

7-Zip does not have an explicit "quiet" or "silent" mode for command line extraction.

A similar question over at Stack Overflow, Extracting a 7-Zip file "silently" - command line option, gives a possible solution using Python scripting code:

One possibility would be to spawn the child process with popen, so its output will come back to the parent to be processed/displayed (if desired) or else completely ignored (create your popen object with stdout=PIPE and stderr=PIPE to be able to retrieve the output from the child).

And then a similar question here on Super User, Redirect 7-Zip's command-line output to /dev/null on Windows when extracting a .7z file reports that the issue is mostly the output, and that by sending the output to NULL, you make the system run essentially silent:

Try doing this:

%COMSPEC% /c "%ProgramFiles%\7-Zip\7z.exe" ...

Answer 2

Yes, it does support command line use. Open a command prompt and navigate to the install folder (typically C:\Program Files\7-Zip) and type:

7z -h

Here is the result:

7-Zip 9.20  Copyright (c) 1999-2010 Igor Pavlov  2010-11-18

Usage: 7z <command> [<switches>...] <archive_name> [<file_names>...]
       [<@listfiles...>]

<Commands>
  a: Add files to archive
  b: Benchmark
  d: Delete files from archive
  e: Extract files from archive (without using directory names)
  l: List contents of archive
  t: Test integrity of archive
  u: Update files to archive
  x: eXtract files with full paths
<Switches>
  -ai[r[-|0]]{@listfile|!wildcard}: Include archives
  -ax[r[-|0]]{@listfile|!wildcard}: eXclude archives
  -bd: Disable percentage indicator
  -i[r[-|0]]{@listfile|!wildcard}: Include filenames
  -m{Parameters}: set compression Method
  -o{Directory}: set Output directory
  -p{Password}: set Password
  -r[-|0]: Recurse subdirectories
  -scs{UTF-8 | WIN | DOS}: set charset for list files
  -sfx[{name}]: Create SFX archive
  -si[{name}]: read data from stdin
  -slt: show technical information for l (List) command
  -so: write data to stdout
  -ssc[-]: set sensitive case mode
  -ssw: compress shared files
  -t{Type}: Set type of archive
  -u[-][p#][q#][r#][x#][y#][z#][!newArchiveName]: Update options
  -v{Size}[b|k|m|g]: Create volumes
  -w[{path}]: assign Work directory. Empty path means a temporary directory
  -x[r[-|0]]]{@listfile|!wildcard}: eXclude filenames
  -y: assume Yes on all queries

So here is one example of a silent extraction:

7z x "C:\Path\To\File.zip" -y > nul