Questions tagged [unzip]
unzip refers to the utility `unzip` or an action of unzipping.
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How to unzip files on external HD, zipped in Windows 10?
Before installing Ubuntu 24.04 by wiping Windows 10 HD, I backed up personal files to an external SSD, using whatever zipping Windows 10 was offering. Now, trying to unzip into Ubuntu, DISKS sees the ...
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My system crashed after attempting to unzip a .zip file
I'm running Ubuntu 24.04 from a persistent USB. While unzipping a 1.5 gigabyte file, my system crashed and displayed a black screen with a blinking cursor. I usually suspect USB corruption in such ...
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Unrar reports "Total errors", but not what happend
I ran unrar x and at the end it reports Total errors: 4, but nothing else. I can see that the lines at the end have an 'OK' at the end, so I assume 4 of those will have 'ERROR' or similar... the ...
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Unzip to directory of the same name
I am trying to unzip files supplied by Google Takeout and need a command to unzip all zip files in a directory to a directory of the same name as the zip file to avoid conflicts.
The zip names cannot ...
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Can't unzip owncloud
I wanted to download owncloud to my ubuntu server, but it can't unzip it, it doesn't recognize my file, and then the file is there, but it doesn't recognize it. I tried to delete it and download it ...
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extract many zip files but set different destination directories following the content file extensions with unzip cmd
I have many .zip files, each file contains many different file with different extensions, e.g: .c, .py, .java and .cpp etc.
I am only interesting to extract all file with .py or .java from these zip ...
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How do I get my Japanese VLC song title, out from inside a zip?
I initally had this problem: How to unzip a Japanese ZIP file, and avoid mojibake/garbled characters
But that "unzip -O shift-jis [filename.zip]" did the job and I got my nice Japanese ...
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Which compression types are supported by zless?
I just learned about the amazing zless command which allows me to write zless file.txt.gz instead of the more verbose gunzip -c file.txt.gz | less - in fact less is often configured to do this ...
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Download, unzip and run a file from GitHub
I'm absolutely new to Linux and I would like to know how could I download through the command line a .zip file from GitHub releases e.g. https://github.com/username/repo/releases/download/ver/file.zip
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Can't play game from zip file
Just downloaded the zip file from https://danidev.itch.io/off-the-balls and after extracting it I still can't find any way to play the game. After extracting, I don't see any .exe files either which ...
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extract only a subfolder from a zip file without the path
I have a little problem!
I have a zip file "Backup.zip"; in this zipfile I have: /Users/USERNAME/Pictures
The Picture directory has files and directories.
I need to extract only the Picture ...
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One tool that WORKS for all archives and compressed files
I have been using 7z, unrar , Peazip and Archive Manager and what not and I am having a hard time matching the compressed file/archive file with the appropriate tool for extracting.
The default ubuntu ...
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How to extract a corrupted zip file?
I compressed some zip files into another zip file. Later, when I tried to extract it, I got the following message:
End-of-central-directory signature not found. Either this file is not
a zipfile, ...
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Finding a offset of file in a zip without unziping using shell?
Is there any way to use the shell command to find the offset of a file inside a zip without actually extracting the zip?
Have tried zipinfo XXX.zip which provides sizes which had to add up sizes to ...
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Gnome File "Extract Here" failed, but command line unzip works
Using Ubuntu 20.04.2, Gnome 3.36.8, all up-to-date (2021-03-07).
Download SDK Platform-Tools for Linux. Using the File app, right click, "Extract Here". The result is an empty directory ...
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tgz file extracted folders has no files
When I tried extracting a tgz file using archive manager, the extracted folders has no files. I tried other softwares like 7zip also. But that also is not returning the same error. Can you suggest a ...
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Selectively exracting files from tar.gz file
I have a file data_backup_202.tar.gz whcih contains more than 400 files. Datestamp of those files goes back to 2010.
I want to extract or decompress files for last 6months from this data_backup_202....
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Getting error "pathname cannot be converted from utf-8 to current locale" while extracting a zip file in ubuntu 20.04
When I am trying to unzip a file "Desktop.zip" I am getting below error as shown in figure:
I have made this zip file in ubuntu 20.04. Then downgraded to 18.04 and tried to unzip here.
I am ...
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I cannot unzip.tgz file in my external hard drive
I tried to unzip my .tgz file in external hard drive (directory: /mnt/e) with
tar -xvzf (filename).tgz
It failed with error message:
tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors
Also, I ...
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How to install PyCharm from zip file? [duplicate]
I have downloaded PyCharm and unzipped using unzip command.
By using help from the internet I did everything to install it, but the ./configure command shows me an error:
bash: ./configure: No such ...
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Unzip Voxceleb dataset through terminal and python
I am trying to use voxceleb dataset for some audio classification. I use this command to download the dataset:
wget --user=.... --password=... https://www.robots.ox.ac.uk/~vgg/data/voxceleb/vox1a/...
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Zip File Extract not working in Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
I have recently upgraded my system OS to Ubuntu 20.04 LTS.
I have some zip files generated from another machine having OS Ubuntu 18.04 LTS.
When I try to extract the file in my OS, I get the error:
An ...
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Tar xvf working fine, but file not unpacked
I am trying to download Apache Spark in the folder spark1.
$ wget https://downloads.apache.org/spark/spark-3.0.0-preview2/SparkR_3.0.0-preview2.tar.gz
Using above statement I get a .gz file. I am ...
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Can't extract zip file Ubuntu 18.04
For example,I created a simple zip file (inside I have the sentence: hello world!) in desktop. I want to unzip it, but nothing happens. I also installed (zip unzip) with this command: sudo apt install ...
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Getting errors when I try to unzip splited zip files
OS version:
root@triiage_1:~/zip# cat /etc/os-release
NAME="Ubuntu"
VERSION="18.04.4 LTS (Bionic Beaver)"
ID=ubuntu
ID_LIKE=debian
PRETTY_NAME="Ubuntu 18.04.4 LTS"
VERSION_ID="18.04"
zip version：
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Unzip a .zip file to all directories that contain a .php file that contains the text “house” inside?
How to unzip a .zip file to all directories that contain a .php file that contains the text "house" inside?
Something like:
grep -rl --include='index.php' 'house' /directory/path/of_the_index_file* |...
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Linux unzip file from script without outputting the unzipped file names
I unzipped a file from a script with "unzip filename.zip" and in the terminal I see all the unzipped file names. I would like to unzip the file without printing those names so that I have a clean ...
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Why is unzip in the file explorer so slow?
I frequently unzip files which contain thousands of small text files within them.
I have noticed that when I do this in the file explorer (right-click → Extract here) it can take a long time and ...
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Unable to unzip file .tar.gz on ubuntu
Hello I have a problem with the command: tar -xvzf. I want unzip the plugins that I just downloaded but I get this message. but before everything else I needed your help please.
tar (child): cannot ...
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Is it possible to unzip documents into a directory which is created on the fly in a single command?
How can I achieve something like the following?
unzip ./zipped_docs.zip ./new_folder | mkdir ./new_folder
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mkdir ./new_folder | unzip ./zipped_docs.zip ./new_folder
I even tried
mkdir ./...
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How to send a zip file containing bunch of pdf's directly to a printer?
I receive regularly a bunch of pdf's as a single zip file. I would like to send these directly to a printer.
I found a nice script which allows using the right-click context menu to send the pdf's ...
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Unzip command equivalent to "extract here"
I have a.zip file. I want to extract it so I have directory "a" consist of its content similar when I do right click on directory a then click "extract here".
Is it possible to replicate that gui ...
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ubuntu 14.04: How to compress a directory which have symlinks?
I have a php project of size 3.5GB in which there are symlinks of several files. I want to zip it and take backup to windows 10 PC from my ubuntu 14.04 laptop. Whenever, I make a zip file of it and ...
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Error `Archive not supported` while opening extracted .js file in 18.04
I am getting this message from Archive Manager when trying to open a text file:
Could not open “users.js”
Archive type not supported.
I've tried different archive managers but not one works!
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Extract files inside folder in ZIP archive to current folder
can I extract files from a specific folder inside a zip archive
to a current folder?
I tried to use
unzip archive.zip folder/*
But I got folder "folder" in my current directory.
How can I ...
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Extracting rar files having the same password
I use unrar to extract rar files on Ubuntu 18.04.
How can I extract 100 files that have the same password without giving the password 100 times.
I hope I can do it on Nautilus, also terminal is fine.
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Need help with: "file type Gzip archive is not supported"
I’ve downloaded the Ltc core wallet on Ubuntu 16.04, 32bit. When I try opening the folder, a message tells me ‘file type Gzip archive is not supported’. So I downloaded Xarchiver and tried again, with ...
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how to unzip .zip file and its sub directories [duplicate]
I have a zip file and in that I have multiple folders zipped.
How do I unzip all the files in one shot.
I tried unzip -r but it didn't work
Regards,
Vikas
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Unzipping large file: bad zipfile offset (local header sig)
I am unzipping a file with approximately 3 million single text files - the zip-file itself is around 12 GB in size. It's not multi-part - it's just one large zip file btw. I do not have the original ...
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Is it possible to keep setgid bit when unzipping files as non-root user?
I have a folder with the following permissions:
drwxrws--x+ 13 myuser www-data 4096 Mar 20 09:57 project-folder
In this folder I have an archive archive.zip with the following permissions:
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What does Ununtu 17.10 invoke when I use "Extract here"?
I am using Ubuntu 17.10, with Unity. I have a zip file, which, when unzipped with "Extract here", produces error
There was an error while extracting "file.zip". Error opening file "/path/to/file/...
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Click to "Extract here" possible?
For my work I constantly need to unzip zip-archives. I know I can right-click and select "Extract here", but since I do this a lot, this is becoming annoying.
Is there a way to set the default ...
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How can I do recursive unzip from terminal? [duplicate]
Inside a zip I have one more zip file
I want a command to extract all at once.
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Unable to unzip a file with the ubuntu terminal
I have got the following error message. The zip file(5GB) may be too big
Archive: /home/wing92518/Documents/simulation_set_1_result/replication_1.zip
warning [/home/wing92518/Documents/...
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Rename the files as they are extracted from the zip file as the name of the zip file itself
I have many zip files (think 100-150) in a folder. Each zip file has multiple files with different file extensions. I know how to write a bash for loop to unzip all the contents of these files.
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Unpack zip file: “End-of-central-directory signature not found” error
I keep getting this error every time I try to unzip my file:
Archive: Server.zip
End-of-central-directory signature not found. Either this file is not
a zipfile, or it constitutes one disk of a ...
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Is it possible to run some SSH commands using SFTP?
Having me not knowing much about Ubuntu; this is my first question here. So excuse me if it looks invalid question.
I was told that its possible to run some SSH commands using SFTP.
If that is ...
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How do you recurse directories, unzip, and move everything up?
Say I have the following directory tree
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├── a1
│ └── sub1
│ └── a1.zip
└── a2
└── sub2
└── a2.zip
The current directory contains a1 and a2 directories. I want to recursively ...
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Can't unzip zip file in Terminal because of a single corrupted file
I've got a large zip file that I am using Terminal to unzip, like so:
unzip /Volumes/9.25.17\ Backup/Documents.zip -d /Users/evan/Desktop/
When I try this, everything works fine until it tries to ...
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Can't extract a large zip file
System says my zip file is okay, but I can't extract it through unzip. I think maybe because it's such a large file (34 GB) that unzip might not support it.
Is there a way to get this to work?
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