How to unzip in ubuntu a .zip file
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You can right click in ubuntu and unzip/extract it or from the terminal
unzip filename.zip (assuming you are standing on the right directory where the zip file resides)
for e.g. /user1/user1.zip
cd user1 (press return)
then type unzip filename.zip and it will extract it in the current location or if you want to extract it in a seperate directory
mkdir extracted (press enter)
then browse to your zip file under terminal and type : unzip filename.zip /extracted/
If you want to work with zip files in Ubuntu command line interface, you will need these commands: zip and unzip.
Zip
To install zip if you dont already have it, do this
sudo apt-get install zip
The simplest way to create a zip file (archive) is
zip myzipfile.zip file1 file2 file3 ...
Where myzipfile.zip is the file (zip archive) you are creating and file1, file2, file3, and so on, are the files you are including in that archive. So lets say you need to create a zip file of your resumé which is in different file formats, you would something like
zip myresume.zip resume.odt resume.pdf resume.doc resume.txt
Unzip
To unzip files, you need to have a command called unzip. To install unzip if you dont already have it, do this
sudo apt-get install unzip
The simplest way to extract all files from a zip archive is
unzip myzipfile.zip
Where myzipfile.zip is the file (zip archive) you are unzipping. So lets say you need to extract (unzip) a zip file of your resumé which contains different files, you would something like
unzip myresume.zip
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by: JornakPosted on 2009-06-11 at 10:55:09ID: 24604946
Ubuntu should have built-in unzipping support. You should just be able to right-click on the file you want to unzip, and click the Extract option.