Extracting a 7-Zip file “silently” - command line option

Question

I want to extract a 7-Zip archive in a Python script. It works fine except that it spits out the extraction details (which is huge in my case).

Is there a way to avoid t

Answer 1

To show just the last 4 lines...

7z x -y some_archive.7z | tail -4

gives me:

Everything is Ok

Size:       917519
Compressed: 171589

The switch -y is to answer yes to everything (in my case to override existing files).