7-Zip

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7-Zip

A fantastic program fulfills 99% of all your file archiving needs
5

Our rating: 

5
Get It: Linux | Windows (Desktop)
License: Free (Open source)
Website: http://www.7-zip.org/
Review & Alternatives: Best Free File Archiver-Zip Utility
Categories: Disk & File, File Archiver
Tags: zip-file, compress-file, archive-file, unzip-file, unpack-file

Pros & Cons:

Easy to install, gives meaningful error messages, capable of uncompressing from multiple embedded files.
User interface is minimalistic.

Our Review:

One product which has really impressed me is 7-Zip. It can unpack a multi-part RAR volume embedded in a ZIP archive, and gives a meaningful error message when attempting to unpack a 256-bit encrypted WinZip archive.

7-Zip supports 7z, zip, gzip, bzip2, tar, arj, cab, chm, cpio, deb, dmg, hfs and much more. It has a strong AES-256 encryption in 7z and ZIP formats and has powerful integration with Windows Shell.

Even though it handles fewer archive types than some other programs, it is a fantastic program that will fulfill 99% of all your file archiving needs.

There is a port of the command line version to Linux/Unix available at the link provided above.

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