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I am a newbie in Linux. Whats is the complete process to zip and unzip a directory and its files? Please mention if any installation has to be done.

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To zip a folder and it’s contents recursively:

zip -r archivefile foldername 

@user5193454 it is the zip file. putting the .zip extension in the filename when running the commands is optional, as without it the command will append with .zip anyway 🙂

I had alot of trouble using unzip giving me errors like

sql.zip has more than one entry—rest ignored

Using php worked like a sharm. Oneliner:

php -r '$zip = new ZipArchive; $zip->open("db.sql.zip"); $zip->extractTo("./"); $zip->close(); echo "Yay!";' 

Run in cmd / terminal after php is installed

Several options exist, the most common ones:

On CLI (command line interface) there are the two utilities zip and unzip which do the obvious thing. For example to compress a directory «my-folder» with all its content using the zip algorithm you would do a zip -r my-folder.zip myfolder . To uncompress it your would use unzip my-folder.zip . Paths are always relative to the current working directory, so where you execute the command. Take a look at the «man page» to find out about the usage: man zip .

There are also GUI utilities (so utilities with a graphical user interface), but it depends on what desktop environment you use, since they are typically integrated. There is ark for KDE and a differente service menus that can be used for example in the file manager dolphin. There certainly are similar solutions for desktop environments like GNOME or Unity.

The question what packages you have to install depends a bit on the Linux distribution you use. The package names may vary slightly, but in general you certainly should be able to find the «zip» package in your local package management system.

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How to Unzip a Zip File in Linux [Beginner’s Tutorial]

This quick tip shows you how to unzip a file in Ubuntu and other Linux distributions. Both terminal and GUI methods have been discussed.

Zip is one of the most common and most popular ways to create compressed archive files. It is also one of the older archive file formats that were created in 1989. Since it is widely used, you’ll regularly come across a zip file. In an earlier tutorial, I showed how to zip a folder in Linux. In this quick tutorial for beginners, I’ll show you how to unzip files in Linux. Prerequisite: Verify if you have unzip installed In order to unzip a zip archive file, you must have the unzip package installed in your system. Most modern Linux distributions come with unzip support but there is no harm in verifying it to avoid bad surprises later. In a terminal, use the following command:

If it gives you some details, you have unzip installed already. If you see an ‘unzip command not found’ error, you have to install. In Ubuntu and Debian based distributions, you can use the command below to install unzip.

Unzip files in Linux command line

Using unzip command in Linux is absolutely simple. In the directory, where you have the zip file, use this command:

You can also provide the path to the zip file instead of going to the directory. You’ll see extracted files in the output:

unzip metallic-container.zip -d my_zip Archive: metallic-container.zip inflating: my_zip/625993-PNZP34-678.jpg inflating: my_zip/License free.txt inflating: my_zip/License premium.txt

There is a slight problem with the above command. It will extract all the contents of the zip file in the current directory. That’s not a pretty thing to do because you’ll have a handful of files leaving the current directory unorganized.

Unzip to a specific directory

A good practice is to unzip to directory in Linux command line. This way, all the extracted files are stored in the directory you specified. If the directory doesn’t exist, it will create one.

unzip zipped_file.zip -d unzipped_directory

Now all the contents of the zipped_file.zip will be extracted to unzipped_directory.

Since we are discussing good practices, another tip you can use is to have a look at the content of the zip file without actually extracting it.

See the content of the zip file without unzipping it

You can check the content of the zip file without even extracting it with the option -l.

unzip -l metallic-container.zip Archive: metallic-container.zip Length Date Time Name --------- ---------- ----- ---- 6576010 2019-03-07 10:30 625993-PNZP34-678.jpg 1462 2019-03-07 13:39 License free.txt 1116 2019-03-07 13:39 License premium.txt --------- ------- 6578588 3 files

There are many other usage of the unzip command in Linux but I guess now you have enough knowledge to unzip files in Linux.

Unzip files in Linux using GUI

You don’t always have to go to the terminal if you are using desktop Linux. Let’s see how to unzip in Ubuntu Linux graphically. I am using GNOME desktop here with Ubuntu 18.04 but the process is pretty much the same in other desktop Linux distributions.

Open the file manager and go to the folder where your zip file is stored. Right click the file and you’ll see the option “extract here”. Select this one.

Unlike the unzip command, the extract here options create a folder of the same name as the zipped file and all the content of the zipped files are extracted to this newly created folder. I am glad that this is the default behavior instead of extracting everything in the current directory.

There is also the option of ‘extract to’ and with that you can specify the folder where you want to extract the files.

That’s it. Now you know how to unzip a file in Linux. Perhaps you might also be interested in learning about using 7zip in Linux.

If you have questions or suggestions, do let me know in the comment section.

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How to Zip and Unzip a directory and its files in Linux [duplicate]

I am a newbie in Linux.Whats is the complete process to zip and unzip a directory and its files.Please mention if any installation has to be done.

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You say you are a newbie. Maybe you got Windows-experiences. If you do not have the packages installed yet, you need to

sudo apt-get install zip gzip tar 

first (or by a graphical pkg-manager).

Then, for an entry it would be the easiest way to use zip/unzip:

zip -r my_arch.zip my_folder 

Zip stores relative path names by default. There are several parameter-options available for zip. For that read: the manual (man zip). For a starting this will do.

Most often you will see .tar.gz endings in linux-world. That’s the product of two tools: TAR (the tape archiver) and GZIP (the GNU-Zip). Tar has got the call option to automatically gzip/gunzip files after «taring».

tar -cvzf may_arch.tar.gz my_folder 

• -c means «create»
• -v means «verbose» (sometimes bothersome and slowing down. )
• -z means «use (GNU)zip»
• -f XYZ declares the name of the output file. (You should chose a helping name like XYZ.tar.gz)

There may also be .tar.bz2 endings. This is the product of the -j parameter instead of the -z parameter: you will choose compression with BZIP2 (-> man bzip2).

To extract you simply use -x (eXtract) instead of -c (Create):

You can use the zip and unzip command line utilities. These can be installed by running

sudo apt-get install zip unzip 

I know several ways, but since you’re new on linux. So I’ll tell you how to zip a file using GUI method (the easiest way).

1. Create a new folder and fill it with anything you want, for example many of file (In my case, I’ll fill it with theme folder) :

1. Right click the folder you want to zip and select «Compress. » option :
2. You can choose which file format you want by clicking combobox next to «Filename» textbox. Also you can set the folder you want to zip location.

Clicking «Other options» will lead you to password section, in other word you can set password for your preferred file so someone (include you) have to enter password before unzip the file.

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