7za (7zip) Installation & command

wget http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/x86_64/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm
wget http://rpms.famillecollet.com/enterprise/remi-release-6.rpm
rpm -ivh epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm
rpm -ivh remi-release-6.rpm

or

wget http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/5/x86_64/epel-release-5-4.noarch.rpm
wget http://rpms.famillecollet.com/enterprise/remi-release-5.rpm
rpm -ivh epel-release-5-4.noarch.rpm
rpm -ivh remi-release-5.rpm

yum install -y p7zip

7za x archive.zip -oFolder

Extract all file from archive archive.zip to folder (Extract with full paths)

7za e archive.zip -o/tmp/folder *.txt -r

Extract all *.txt files from archive archive.zip to /tmp/folder (Extract to current folder only)

7za a archive.7z subdir

adds all file,subfolders from folder subdir to archive archive.7z

7za a -tzip archive.7z subdir

adds all file,subfolders from folder subdir to archive archive.zip (type: zip)

7za a archive.7z *.txt -r

adds all *.txt files from current folder and its subfolders to archive archive.7z

7za a archive.7z -ssw subdir -ppassword

adds all file,subfolders from folder subdir to archive archive.7z with pssword
including files open for writing by another applications.