Oh yeah I'm so sorry: I should have said this before. 7zip extracts the files in your current folder, so if you want to extract an archive in the same folders it is, you have to enter that folder with cd and then extract the package. For example, in your case: cd /home/user/MyDocs/.documents/dict [press ENTER] 7z x hello.7z [press ENTER] Now it should work as you want.