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What is the reason for 7-zip / WinRAR to first unzip files to "temp" and then move them to destination?

What is the reason for 7-zip / WinRAR to first unzip files to "temp" and then move them to destination?

I do not see any advantage against just directly unzipping to destination. It is really irritating, especially for large files (as it is now!).

Edit:

Please explain why they are not done in place.

Extract 7z files with standard linux tools?

I know that you can extract .7z files with 7-zip.

Is there another standard linux program that can do this? Maybe one of these

tar
bzip2
xz
gzip

I will add that bsdtar can do this, but is not available on all systems.

Add to a 7-Zip archive: How to exclude certain file types/extensions?

I want to archive a folder, but I want to exlude all media files.

How do I leave out *.avi and *.flac when archiving?

How do I reassemble a zip file that has been emailed in multiple parts?

I received 3 emails each containing part of a zip file. The extensions end in .z00, .z01 and .z02. (Emailed as such to get around the typical 10Mb attachment limit per email.)

I have put all 3 files into one directory.

I can use both 7-zip and WinZip to open the first file (the .z00 file) and it lists the contents of the zip but when trying to extract the files both programs are reporting errors.

What is the least error prone way of reassembling this zip and getting to the files?

How to disable the output of 7-Zip?

I use 7-Zip to compress files inside a batch file like this:

...\right_path\7z a output_file_name.zip file_to_be_compressed

I got the following output:

7-Zip 4.65  Copyright (c) 1999-2009 Igor Pavlov  2009-02-03
Scanning

Creating archive output_file_name.zip

Compressing  file_to_be_compressed

Everything is Ok

Is it possible to disable this output (that is, I don't want anything to be printed)?

7Zip - Command Line : Exclude folder(s) by wildcard pattern?

Any idea how to exclude a wild-carded path(s) from a command-line 7zip command?

I'm doing something this:

7z.exe a -t7z archive.7z FolderToArchive\ -mx0

and would like to exclude any \bin\*.* or \obj\*.* folders found underneath "FolderToArchive". To exclude files you can use the -x parameter. The help file gives this example for using -x:

7z a -tzip archive.zip *.txt -x!temp.*

That's great for excluding a file. But, again, I would like to exclude a wildcard-specified folder. Under my "FolderToArchive" there are multiple folders, under those folders there may or may not be bin\ and obj\ folders. I would like to not include these in the archive.

I've tried patterns like:

-x!bin\* -x!bin\*.* -x!\bin\* -x!\bin\*.* -x!\\bin\\* -x!\\bin\\*.*

None seem to exclude. Is this simply a limitation of 7zip?

How to split large file on Windows?

Is there a tool to split large text file (9Gb) into smaller files so that I can open it and look through?

Anything usable from command line that comes with Windows (XP)?

Or what's the best way to split it? Can I use 7z to create separate volumes and then unzip one of them separately? Will it be readable or does it need all the other parts to unzip into the big file again?

Update

I put together quick 48 lines python script that split the large file into 0.5GB files which are easy to open even in vim. I've just needed to look through data towards the last part of the log (yes it is a log file). Each record is split across multiple lines so grep would not do.

Make 7-Zip extract an archive directly to a directory

Whenever I extract an archive using 7-Zip, it performs a two step operation. First it extracts the contents of the archives to a temporary folder, then Windows copies the files from the temporary folder to the target directory.

The second part of this operation can take some time, especially if there were a large number of small files in the archive. It seems like the operation could be sped up if 7-Zip just extracted the files directly to the target directory to start with. Is there a way to make it do this?

How to create multipart 7zip file in Linux?

How can I create a multipart 7zip file in Linux using the p7zip console client?

Many people referred me to it. My console app is

7-Zip [64] 9.13 beta  Copyright (c) 1999-2010 Igor Pavlov  2010-04-15
p7zip Version 9.13 (locale=C,Utf16=off,HugeFiles=on,4 CPUs)

What are the best options to use when compressing files using 7 Zip?

I often have to gather log files and upload them to a central server (Owned by another company). The central server has a size limit of the file, so I am trying to create the smallest file possible that is still in the zip format.

What are the best setting to use when compressing a text file to a zip format when my only need is a small file size?

I've done the obvious and chosen ultra compression, and I have noticed that LZMA does a better job than deflate, but there are far too many other permutations of options for me to test them all.

7-Zip doesn't ask me for a password for a ZIP file I encrypted while double-clicking it

I just tried to encrypt a folder with 7-Zip by a command line, choosing a password, but when double-clicking on the ZIP file, it shows me the files list without asking any password.

Is there a way to truly encrypt a folder from the command line?

How do I use 7-zip to backup files, but exclude some directories

I would like to use 7-zip to backup a directory, but I would like it to exclude all directories named ".svn" (anywhere in the source tree). Does anybody know if this is possible and in that case how?

Is there a way of replacing the default 7-Zip icons?

I like 7-Zip a lot - it's my compression utility of choice on Windows. I have just one problem with it: it's butt ugly. I'm really kind of reluctant to install it on my fresh Windows 7 system because of its eye-bleeding qualities. Sad, I know, but the designer in me is just too anal to cope with it.

Does anyone know of an easy, simple way to replace all of its default icons with something more attractive?

add password to existing zip file with 7zip

Is it possible to add a password to an existing zipfile with 7zip without going to all the trouble of unpacking it and re-packing it again?

How to make 7-Zip faster

I normally use WinRAR over 7-Zip simply because it's faster and only a little less efficient with compression. I did a few tests on different filetypes and sizes comparing the 7-Zip and WinRAR default settings on their normal compression and their best compression, and in a lot of cases WinRAR was 50% faster and in some it was actually 100% faster. But, I do like FOSS more. So here are my questions:

1. Is there a way to make 7-Zip speed up? I'd like it to at least be on par with WinRAR's speed
2. Is there a way to make recovery segments in 7-Zip like you can in WinRAR? I didn't see any, but I guess it could be a command line thing.
3. I tested WinRAR and 7-Zip using the latest stable version of each (4-dot-something with 7-Zip). Is the 9.x beta release noticeably faster at compression?

I'm talking about faster at a comparable setting in WinRAR, not just lowering to bare minimum compression.

If it matters, I use a quad core Intel i7 720 (1.6 GHz)/(2.8 GHz) with 4 GB DDR3 RAM, and the 64-bit version of 7-Zip, and dual-boot Debian x64 5.0.4 and Windows 7 Home.