Specifies the method of treating wildcards and filenames on the command line.
-r[- | 0]
| Switch | Description |
|---|---|
| -r | Enable recurse subdirectories. |
| -r- | Disable recurse subdirectories. This option is default for all commands. |
| -r0 | Enable recurse subdirectories only for wildcard names. |
7z l archive.zip *.doc -r-
lists all *.doc files that belong to the archived root directory in the archive.zip archive.
7z a -tzip archive.zip -r src\*.cpp src\*.h
adds all *.cpp and *.h files from directory src and all it's subdirectories to the archive.zip archive.
7z a archive.7z folder1\
adds all files from directory folder1 and all it's subdirectories to the archive.7z archive.
7z a archive.7z -r folder2\
searches all folder2 directories in all subdirectories, and adds them (including all subdirectories) to the archive.7z archive.
a (Add), d (Delete), e (Extract), h (Hash), l (List), rn (Rename), t (Test), u (Update), x (Extract with full paths)
Switches: -i (Include), -x (Exclude)