Open/Extract 7z File with Freeware on Windows/Mac/Linux

7z is a compressed archive file format that supports several different data compression, encryption and pre-processing algorithms. The 7z format initially appeared as implemented by the 7-Zip archiver.

The 7z format provides the following main features:

  • Open, modular architecture which allows any compression, conversion, or encryption method to be stacked.
  • High compression ratios (depending on the compression method used)
  • Rijndael/AES-256 encryption.
  • Large file support (up to approximately 16 exbibytes).
  • Unicode file names
  • Support for solid compression, where multiple files of like type are compressed within a single stream, in order to exploit the combined redundancy inherent in similar files.
  • Compression and encryption of archive headers.
  • Support for multi-part archives : e.g. xxx.7z.001, xxx.7z.002, ... (see the context menu items Split File... to create them and Combine Files... to re-assemble an archive from a set of multi-part component files)

The format's open architecture allows additional future compression methods to be added to the standard.

While 7z compression uses the LZMA method by default, the 7z format also supports the PPMD, BCJ, BCJ2, BZip2, and Deflate compression methods.

The 7z format supports encryption with the AES algorithm with a 256-bit key. The key is generated from a user-supplied passphrase using an algorithm based on the SHA-256 hash function.

Open/Extract 7z File on Windows

7z is a native format of 7-Zip. To open/extract 7z file, you can use 7-Zip or Easy 7-Zip. The Easy 7-Zip is an easy-to-use version of 7-Zip. The open source freeware keeps all features of 7-Zip and adds a few useful features that makes the software more user-friendly.

Easy 7-Zip works on Windows 10/8.1/8/7/Vista/2008/2003/XP/2000 (both 32-bit and 64-bit compatible).

  1. Free Download Easy 7-Zip
  2. Install Easy 7-Zip by step-by-step instructions
  3. The installation will associate 7z with Easy 7-Zip automatically
  4. Double-click on 7z file to open 7z file with Easy 7-Zip

    5. Easy 7-Zip
    You will see files or folders within the 7z file then, click button Extract to extract the 7z file.

  5. Alternatively, Right-click on 7z file on Windows Explorer


    6. And then, choose Extract files..., Extract Here, or Extract to "folder\" to extract the 7z file.

  6. Done

Easy 7-Zip Download Links:

Open/Extract 7z File on Mac

To open/extract 7z file on Mac, you can use B1 Free Archiver. B1 Free Archiver is a free software for creating archive folder and extracting archive file. B1 Archiver works on all platforms - Windows, Linux, Mac and Android. The freeware supports most popular formats including 7z.

B1 Free Archiver is compatible with:

  • Mac OS X 10.9 Mavericks
  • Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion
  • Mac OS X 10.7 Lion
  • Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard

Open/Extract 7z File on Linux

You need to install p7zip. p7zip is command line port of 7-Zip for POSIX systems like Unix (Linux, Solaris, OpenBSD, FreeBSD, Cygwin, AIX, ...), MacOS X and also for BeOS and Amiga.

Install p7zip-full on CentOS and Fedora

# yum install p7zip-full

Install p7zip-full on Debian and Ubuntu

$ sudo apt-get install p7zip-full

Extract a 7z file on Linux

$ 7za e sample.7z
  • 7za - command name
  • e - specifies the 7z to be extracted
  • sample.7z - is the file that is to be extracted

To extract with full paths, use the following command:

$ 7za x sample.7z

 

 

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