7-Zip Command Line: Extract Silently/quietly
Answer : 7-Zip does not have an explicit "quiet" or "silent" mode for command line extraction. A similar question over at Stack Overflow, Extracting a 7-Zip file "silently" - command line option , gives a possible solution using Python scripting code: One possibility would be to spawn the child process with popen, so its output will come back to the parent to be processed/displayed (if desired) or else completely ignored (create your popen object with stdout=PIPE and stderr=PIPE to be able to retrieve the output from the child). And then a similar question here on Super User, Redirect 7-Zip's command-line output to /dev/null on Windows when extracting a .7z file reports that the issue is mostly the output, and that by sending the output to NULL, you make the system run essentially silent: Try doing this: %COMSPEC% /c "%ProgramFiles%\7-Zip\7z.exe" ... Yes, it does support command line use. Open a command prompt and n...