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<H1>-si (read data from stdin) switch</H1>
<P>Causes 7-Zip to read data from stdin (standard input) instead of from disc files.</P>
<H4>Syntax</H4>
<PRE class="syntax">
-si{file_name}
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<DT>{file_name}</DT>
<DD>Specifies a name that will be stored in the archive for the compressed data.
If file_name is not specified, data will be stored without a name.</DD>
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<P>Note: The current version of 7-Zip support reading of archives from stdin only for xz, lzma, tar, gzip and bzip2 archives.</P>
<H4>Examples</H4>
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7z a archive.gz -tgzip -siDoc2.txt < Doc.txt
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<P>compresses input stream from file Doc.txt to
<SPAN class="filename">archive.gz</SPAN> archive
using <SPAN class="filename">Doc2.txt</SPAN> file name.</P>
<PRE class="example">
7z x 7z905.tar.gz -so | 7z x -si -ttar
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<P>decompresses <SPAN class="filename">tar.gz</SPAN> archive.</P>
<H4>Commands that can be used with this switch</H4>
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<A href="../commands/add.htm">a (Add)</A>,
<A href="../commands/extract.htm">e (Extract)</A>,
<A href="../commands/hash.htm">h (Hash)</A>,
<A href="../commands/update.htm">u (Update)</A>,
<A href="../commands/extract_full.htm">x (Extract with full paths)</A>
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| Name | Type | Size | Permission | Actions |
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| ar_exclude.htm | File | 1.42 KB | 0644 |
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| ar_include.htm | File | 2.4 KB | 0644 |
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| ar_no.htm | File | 1.37 KB | 0644 |
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| bb.htm | File | 1.89 KB | 0644 |
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| bs.htm | File | 1.95 KB | 0644 |
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| charset.htm | File | 1.95 KB | 0644 |
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| exclude.htm | File | 1.93 KB | 0644 |
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| include.htm | File | 2.84 KB | 0644 |
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| index.htm | File | 5.71 KB | 0644 |
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| large_pages.htm | File | 2.14 KB | 0644 |
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| list_tech.htm | File | 802 B | 0644 |
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| method.htm | File | 35.36 KB | 0644 |
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| output_dir.htm | File | 1.33 KB | 0644 |
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| overwrite.htm | File | 1.48 KB | 0644 |
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| password.htm | File | 1.35 KB | 0644 |
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| recurse.htm | File | 2.53 KB | 0644 |
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| sa.htm | File | 1.4 KB | 0644 |
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| scc.htm | File | 914 B | 0644 |
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| scrc.htm | File | 1.25 KB | 0644 |
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| sdel.htm | File | 954 B | 0644 |
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| sfx.htm | File | 5.44 KB | 0644 |
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| shared.htm | File | 1011 B | 0644 |
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| sni.htm | File | 1.35 KB | 0644 |
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| sns.htm | File | 2.2 KB | 0644 |
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| spf.htm | File | 2.37 KB | 0644 |
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| ssc.htm | File | 1.43 KB | 0644 |
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| stdin.htm | File | 1.55 KB | 0644 |
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| stdout.htm | File | 1.4 KB | 0644 |
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| stl.htm | File | 978 B | 0644 |
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| stop_switch.htm | File | 678 B | 0644 |
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| stx.htm | File | 1.36 KB | 0644 |
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| style.css | File | 2.78 KB | 0644 |
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| type.htm | File | 3.67 KB | 0644 |
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| update.htm | File | 7.97 KB | 0644 |
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| volume.htm | File | 1.29 KB | 0644 |
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| working_dir.htm | File | 1.68 KB | 0644 |
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| yes.htm | File | 1.23 KB | 0644 |
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