: In some computer science courses, such as those at Tampere University , students are tasked with writing programs to search for words within text files stored inside .7z archives .

: You can use 7za to list or extract files via the console.

: Tools like dnGrep allow you to search for specific text inside a .7z archive without fully unpacking it. Does 7z compress better than zip? - Microsoft Community Hub

: The official, free, open-source tool for this format.