Link to this heading7z Add Files Recursively by extension: 7z a files_all.zip **/*.{avi,gif,jpg,jpeg,png,pdf,svg,svgz,zip} Highest Compression: 7z a "data_$(date +%Y.%m.%d).7z" data -mx9 Add Files by nnn Selection: alias ncp="cat ${NNN_SEL:-${XDG_CONFIG_HOME:-$HOME/.config}/nnn/.selection} | tr '\0' '\n'" nnn 7z a files_all.zip $(ncp) Add Password to Zip: 7z a files_all.zip testfile