This script seems like a nice way to use tar with 7-zip 16.02. All the script targets are hard-linked together, and the the tar needs to be created as 7za's st

This script seems like a nice way to use tar with 7-zip 16.02. All the script targets are hard-linked together, and the the tar needs to be created as 7za's standard input with -si, not as a file. $ cat ~/bin/7ctar #!/bin/sh zfile=$1 shift case ${0##*/} in 7ltar) 7za x -so "$zfile" | tar tvf - "$@" ;; 7xtar) 7za x -so "$zfile" | tar xvf - "$@" ;; 7ctar) tar cvf - "$@" | 7za a -mx=9 -si "$zfile" ;; esac $ 7ctar test.tar.7z /etc/passwd /etc/group /etc/hosts tar: Removing leading `/' from member names /etc/passwd /etc/group /etc/hosts ... $ 7ltar test.tar.7z -rw-r--r-- root/root 3774 2021-11-17 12:52:56 etc/passwd -rw-r--r-- root/root 948 2019-08-08 09:52:52 etc/group -rw-r--r-- root/root 242 2017-08-31 09:57:40 etc/hosts $ ../7xtar test.tar.7z etc/passwd etc/group etc/hosts