<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2 Final//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=Windows-1252"> <TITLE>-p (set Password) switch</TITLE> <LINK href="style.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"> </HEAD> <BODY> <H1>-p (set Password) switch</H1> <P>Specifies password.</P> <H4>Syntax</H4> <PRE class="syntax"> -p{password} </PRE> <DL> <DT>{password}</DT> <DD>Specifies password.</DD> </DL> <H4>Examples</H4> <PRE class="example"> 7z a archive.7z -psecret -mhe *.txt </PRE> <P>compresses *.txt files to <SPAN class="filename">archive.7z</SPAN> using password "secret". Also it encrypts archive headers (-mhe switch), so filenames will be encrypted. </P> <PRE class="example"> 7z x archive.zip -psecret </PRE> <P>extracts all files from <SPAN class="filename">archive.zip</SPAN> using password "secret".</P> <H4>Commands that can be used with this switch</H4> <P> <A href="../commands/add.htm">a (Add)</A>, <A href="../commands/delete.htm">d (Delete)</A>, <A href="../commands/extract.htm">e (Extract)</A>, <A href="../commands/test.htm">t (Test)</A>, <A href="../commands/update.htm">u (Update)</A>, <A href="../commands/extract_full.htm">x (Extract with full paths)</A> </P> </BODY> </HTML>