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Babak K. Shandiz
Babak K. Shandiz

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Living in the Shell #8; unzip

#productivity #linux #bash #devops

unzip 🎉

Extracts ZIP archive contents.

Test archive integrity -t 

unzip -t x.zip
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List archive content (short format) -l 

unzip -l x.zip
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Display exhaustive archive information/content -Zzl 

unzip -Zzl x.zip
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Extract all files into given path -d 

unzip x.zip -d output-dir
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Extracts all files into output-dir directory.

Extract specific files 

unzip x.zip a.txt b.txt
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Extract all, but exclude some files -x 

unzip x.zip -x a.txt b.txt
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Extracts all but excludes a.txt and b.txt.

Extract with overwrite -o 

unzip -o x.zip -d output-dir
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Extract without overwrite -n 

unzip -n x.zip -d output-dir
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Waylon Walker •

Nice examples!

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