How to detect in 7-Zip fatal error #2 "Wrong password" in windows batch?

[PiotrMP006]

Hi

How to detect in 7-Zip fatal error #2 "Wrong password" in windows batch?

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ERROR: a.7z : Cannot open encrypted archive. Wrong password?

[Syntax]

I have not done extensive testing, but it exits with an errorlevel of 2 if you input the wrong password to extract a 7z file.

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C:\Program Files\7-Zip>7z x %userprofile%\downloads\file.7z

7-Zip 23.01 (x64) : Copyright (c) 1999-2023 Igor Pavlov : 2023-06-20

Scanning the drive for archives:
1 file, 32818 bytes (33 KiB)

Extracting archive: C:\Users\user\downloads\file.7z
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Path = C:\Users\user\downloads\file.7z
Type = 7z
Physical Size = 32818
Headers Size = 162
Method = LZMA2:19 7zAES
Solid = -
Blocks = 1


Enter password (will not be echoed):
ERROR: Data Error in encrypted file. Wrong password? : file

Sub items Errors: 1

Archives with Errors: 1

Sub items Errors: 1

C:\Program Files\7-Zip>echo %errorlevel%
2

[Simon_Weel]

You could try to intercept the error text 'ERROR: Data Error in encrypted file. Wrong password?' by piping the output of 7Zip to the Find command.
Don't know the exact syntax for 7Zip, but maybe something like

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7z L %userprofile%\downloads\file.7z | find /i "wrong password"

And then check the errorlevel. This will list the content of the ZIP-file and I guess you need a password for that as well, if a password is set.