7-zip

Fantastic archive manager.

  by Halleck

I first got a taste of 7-zip on windows, where it has been outfitted with explorer integration and a very functional GUI. It can handle some pretty intense operations (multi-gig archiving) where the built-in windows archiver craps out. I have since installed it on all of my Linux boxes and use it from the command line. It supports a great range of archive formats and is easy to use. I still use tar for making .tar.gz and .tar.bz2 archives out of ... [More] habit, but 7zip has earned a permanent place on my unix toolchain.
One caveat: if you plan to use the native .7z format, make a tarball first if you want to preserve the permissions of your files. [Less]

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