How do I extract a password protected .7z file?
Can someone tell me how can I extract a password protected .7z file in Ubuntu server?
(I know the password, I just need a program to do so and an example of how to use said program…)
there is a rarcrack to do this task. It can handle .rar, .zip and .7z files. Check out this article:
http://mediakey.dk/~cc/howto-crack-rar-7z-and-zip-files-in-linux/
Hope this will help
Install p7zip-full on the server first and then run this to extract a z7 archive called test.7z, encrypted with the password password:
7z x test.7z -ppassword
As JanC adds below, you can omit the whole -ppassword flag and it will just ask you for the password on extraction:
oli@bert:~/Desktop$ 7z x test.7z
7-Zip 9.04 beta Copyright (c) 1999-2009 Igor Pavlov 2009-05-30
p7zip Version 9.04 (locale=en_GB.UTF-8,Utf16=on,HugeFiles=on,8 CPUs)
Processing archive: test.7z
Enter password (will not be echoed) : <<I typed the password here>>
Extracting botch2
Everything is Ok
Folders: 1
Files: 0
Size: 0
Compressed: 118