I generally use 7zip when on Windows and uncompressing multiple 7zip files. I have come across several articles noting that I need to concatenate multiple 7zip files to a single zip archive if I wish to uncompress in Linux.
- Is this necessary?
- Can I not specify simply the first of the multiple 7zip files?
The reason I ask is it appears that when running the command 7zr e {name_of_first_archive}
it only uncompresses the first archive.
Best Answer
You can extract/decompress 7z split archives, no need to concatenate the parts prior to extraction. The only requirement is that your archives must have incremental extensions of the type .NNN (where N=[0..9]) starting from .001. This is probably because when you create a split archive using 7z, it will name each part of the archive this way. Then, all you have to do is run the command on the first archive: