Paul Semel

Indeed, both options actually seem to work on newer versions of 7zip, my bad... Thanks a lot for helping!

Interesting. A few remarks: 1. From the linux command line we can read "-snl : store symbolic links as links". Same thing for the man page. 2. Running 7za a -snl -tzip test.zip test_dir/ will store test_dir/file as a symbolic link, so as I expect it to do. Am I misunderstanding something here?

7-Zip (a) [64] 16.02 : Copyright (c) 1999-2016 Igor Pavlov : 2016-05-21 p7zip Version 16.02 (locale=C,Utf16=off,HugeFiles=on,64 bits,128 CPUs AMD EPYC 7B12 (830F10),ASM,AES-NI)

Context: $ ls file.lst test_dir $ ls -l test_dir Oct 25 16:20 file -> /tmp/test $ cat file.lst test_dir/file The command is: 7z a -snl -i@file.lst test.zip I expect 7zip to create a zip archive with only one file which is a symlink (because I set -snl). What it contains is an archive with one file, which is named file, which contains the content of /tmp/test. So it is not a symlink, which is what I would have expected.

7z won't handle both `-i@file.lst` and -snl options correctly

Feature request: add a format-string function