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Commands tagged unzip

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unzip -l filename.zip |awk '{ if($4 != "Name" && $4 != "----") print $4}'|xargs -t rm -rf {}
2011-10-20 18:54:15
User: hk0i
Functions: awk rm xargs
Tags: awk xargs unzip rm
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un-unzip a file

Sometimes you unzip a file that has no root folder and it spews files all over the place. This will clean up all of those files by deleting them.

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tar -zxvf file.tar.gz
2010-11-17 14:26:14
User: rdc
Functions: tar
Tags: Linux tar unzip
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Unzip and untar a *.tar.gz file in one go

A *.tar.gz file needs to be unzipped & then untarred. Previously I might have unzipped first with

gunzip -d file.tar.gz

and then untarred the result with

tar -xvf file.tar

(Options are extract, verbose, file)

Using the -z (decompress) option on tar avoids the use of gzip (or gunzip) first.

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curl -s -O http://s3.amazonaws.com/alexa-static/top-1m.csv.zip ; unzip -q -o top-1m.csv.zip top-1m.csv ; head -1000 top-1m.csv | cut -d, -f2 | cut -d/ -f1 > topsites.txt
2010-11-01 01:25:53
User: chrismccoy
Functions: cut head
Tags: curl unzip cut
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get a list of top 1000 sites from alexa

this will dump a list of domains one per line into a text file

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tar -xfv archive.zip
2010-10-14 08:19:16
User: vxbinaca
Functions: tar
Tags: unzip zip multi-part
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Unzip multi-part zip archive

Simplicity tends to win out on commandlinefu.com Also, why type multiple filenames when range operators work too. Saves finger abuse and time and reduces the chances for mistakes.

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zip -F archive.zip --output big_archive.zip && unzip big_archive.zip
2010-10-09 10:20:04
User: asmanian
Tags: unzip zip multi-part
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Unzip multi-part zip archive

Assuming you have a multi-part archive like "archive.zip archive.z01 archive.z02 ...", unzip will not handle these correctly. If you "fix" the parts into one big file with zip -F before, it works.

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for f in `find ./ -name "*.zip"` ; do p=`pwd`; d=`dirname $f`; cd $d; b=`basename $f`; unzip $b; cd $p; done
2009-05-30 03:42:53
User: packetloss
Functions: cd
Tags: find unzip
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unzip all zip files under a current directory in the directory those files were in

unzips all zip files in any subdirectory under the current directory. The zip files are unzipped in their respective subdirs

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unzip \*.zip
2009-03-26 02:36:28
User: tiagofischer
Tags: unzip
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Unzip all files with ".zip" extension.

"unzip *.zip" doesn't work as expected, because unzip handle wildcards in a different way.

You just need to escape the wildcard or do in another way:

for f in *.zip; do unzip "$f"; done
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