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PeaZip is a file manager and file archiver for Microsoft Windows and Linux.^[1] It supports its native PEA archive format (featuring compression, multi volume split and flexible authenticated encryption and integrity check schemes) and other mainstream formats, with special focus on handling open formats.^[2]^[3]

Features

The program features an archive browser interface with search and history features for intuitive navigation in archive's content, and allows to apply fine-grained multiple exclusion and inclusion filter rules to the archive; a flat browsing mode is possible as alternative archive browsing method.

PeaZip allows users to run extracting and archiving operations automatically using command-line generated exporting the job defined in the GUI front-end. It can also create, edit and restore an archive's layout for speeding up archiving or backup operation's definition.

Other notable features of the program includes file splitting and joining, secure file deletion, byte-to-byte file comparison, archive encryption, checksum/hash files, system benchmarking, random passwords/keyfiles generation, and integration in the Windows Explorer context menu. In addition, the program's user interface (including icons and color scheme) can be customized.^[4]^[5]^[6]

PeaZip is available as installable package for Windows and Linux (DEB, RPM and TGZ), and as natively standalone, portable application for both platforms. In the latter form it is available also as PortableApps package (.paf.exe).^[7]

Amongst more popular and general-purpose archive formats like 7z, Tar, ZIP etc... PeaZip supports PAQ and LPAQ formats: although usually not recommended for general purpose use (due to high memory usage and low speed) those formats are included for the value as cutting edge compression technology, providing compression ratio amongst the best for most data structures.^[8]^[9]

PeaZip supports encryption with AES 256-bit cipher in 7z, ZIP and PEA archive formats. In ARC format are supported ciphers AES 256-bit, Blowfish, Twofish 256 and Serpent 256.^[10]

Limitations

The graphical frontend's progress bar is less reliable than the native console's progress indicator for the various backend utilities. If it is critical to follow the real time progress of the work it is possible to set the program to use the native console interface, or both graphical and console interfaces, for the backend utilities.

Third-party technologies

PeaZip acts as a graphical front-end for numerous third-party open source or royalty-free utilities, including:

Most of these utilities can run both in console mode or through a graphical wrapper that allows more user-friendly handling of output information.

Supported formats

Full support

Browse/test/extract support

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Features

Limitations

Third-party technologies

Supported formats

Full support

Browse/test/extract support

See also

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