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7-Zip command line to extract a folder from an archive

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Problem

I'm using the 7-Zip commandline to extract a ZIP archive called which is an archive with a folder called 'zipper' with three text files in it ( , , and ). My problem is when I extract it with the following command: 7-Zip extracts everything, but it doesn't extract the folder 'zipper', it just extra…

Error Output

7z e C:\abc\abc.zip -y oC:\abc

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Fix for: 7-Zip command line to extract a folder from an archive

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You need to use to extract with full paths. See: http://sevenzip.sourceforge.jp/chm/cmdline/commands/extract_full.htm

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