silent 7za compression

Question

Without doing stdout redirection. Is it possible to have a silent run of 7za?

Answer 1

Looking at the output of 7za --help, I don't think so.

Is there any particular reason why you don't want to just do 7za a archive.7z files > /dev/null?

Answer 2

Side note: xz compressor uses the same algorithm 7Zip does (LZMA) but in a way similar to gzip or bzip2 making it compatible with standard UNIX tools.

You can compress a file:

$ xz file.ext
$ ls file*
file.ext.xz

Or use it to compress a directory with tar:

$ tar cJf dir.tar.xz dir/
$ ls -d dir*
dir   dir.tar.xz

Answer 3

Maybe you can wrap 7za in a script, so that the place that calls it doesn't need the redirection?