<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2 Final//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=Windows-1252"> <TITLE>-ao (Overwrite mode) switch</TITLE> <LINK href="style.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"> </HEAD> <BODY> <H1>-ao (Overwrite mode) switch</H1> <P>Specifies the overwrite mode during extraction, to overwrite files already present on disk.</P> <H4>Syntax</H4> <PRE class="syntax"> -ao[a | s | t | u ] </PRE> <TABLE> <TR> <TH width="80">Switch</TH> <TH>Description</TH> </TR> <TR> <TD>-aoa</TD> <TD>Overwrite All existing files without prompt.</TD> </TR> <TR> <TD>-aos</TD> <TD>Skip extracting of existing files.</TD> </TR> <TR> <TD>-aou</TD> <TD>aUto rename extracting file (for example, name.txt will be renamed to name_1.txt).</TD> </TR> <TR> <TD>-aot</TD> <TD>auto rename existing file (for example, name.txt will be renamed to name_1.txt).</TD> </TR> </TABLE> <H4>Examples</H4> <PRE class="example"> 7z x test.zip -aoa </PRE> <P>extracts all files from <SPAN class="filename">test.zip</SPAN> archive and overwrites existing files without any prompt.</P> <H4>Commands that can be used with this switch</H4> <P> <A href="../commands/extract.htm">e (Extract)</A>, <A href="../commands/extract_full.htm">x (Extract with full paths)</A> </P> <H4>See also</H4> <P> <B>Switches:</B> <A href="yes.htm">-y (assume Yes on all queries)</A>, </P> </BODY> </HTML>