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

On Unix-like operating systems (Linux, BSD, etc.) the shell command 7z ... >/dev/null will discard all text written by 7z to standard output. That should cover all the status/informational messages written by 7z.

It seems that 7z writes error messages to standard error so if you do >/dev/null, error messages will still be shown.