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1 gzip-like CLI wrapper (for 7z)
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4 The official site of the script p7zip provided in this directory
5 is http://packages.debian.org/unstable/utils/p7zip.
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8 The script p7zip provides a CLI similar to that of
9 gzip/bzip2/etc Un*x utilities for 7z.
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11 When necessary, it emulates streaming by using
12 temporary files in /tmp. This is all transparent to
13 the application using it, which can use the same
14 semantincs than with gzip or bzip2.
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16 For example, you can do:
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18 tar --use-compress-program=p7zip -cf file.tar.7z dir/
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20 to generate a 7zipped tarball.
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