Re: Replacement for unzip of .7z compressed files.

> Problem is how do I get the extracted file into a different directory?
> I have a directory named DL with 5 different named .7z files and want to have 
> the unzipped version go to another directory named UZ with the 5 .7z files 
> having the same file names minus the .7z extension.

for f in DL/*.7z
do
  tar -x -C UZ -f $f
done

or maybe

for f in DL/*.7z
do
  tar -x -f $f -O > UZ/$(basename $f .7z)
done

If you want to rename the extracted file ths -s flag might do the trick.

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