Can't extract zip file Ubuntu 18.04

Question

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 zip unzip, but it says that I have already have the newest versions of these installed.

Here is the error I get in the terminal:

"Can't extract file.zip" Care to show to us what's the error you see? — Liso, Apr 18 '20 at 13:44
Please don't post additional information as answers. This is not a forum. [edit] your question instead. — Pilot6, Apr 18 '20 at 14:10
There may be two reasons: 1) The archive is really corrupt; 2) File names may have non-ascii characters. The second can be fixed. Can you give a link to that file? — Pilot6, Apr 18 '20 at 14:11
Hey Nick, please use the edit button to append answers to your question as opposed to making multiple answers. Have a look at some other questions: https://askubuntu.com/questions/790929/does-ubuntu-come-with-a-zip-file-extracter?rq=1 / https://askubuntu.com/questions/520546/how-to-extract-a-zip-file-to-a-specific-folder?rq=1 and https://askubuntu.com/questions/482849/why-is-this-zip-file-unable-to-open?rq=1 — DankyNanky, Apr 18 '20 at 14:57
Does this answer your question? unzip error "End-of-central-directory signature not found" — karel, Apr 22 '20 at 07:49

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 18 '20 at 13:57

0

First, in the terminal use the cd command to change to the location you want. An example being cd /home/nick/Downloads. From here, verify that the file exists using ls -la | grep .zip to ensure you're in the right location.

From here, if you want to unzip to the current location, just run:

unzip file.zip

answered Apr 18 '20 at 13:57

DankyNanky

554

Hey @Nick_Gkoutzas, the error stipulates that the zip file has no content, or Zip cannot read the file. A return of ls -la might give you file size. If corrupted, I'd suggest a redownload of the file. – DankyNanky Apr 18 '20 at 13:59
I changed this zip file to tar file and I I will try to untar it .if that doesn't work ,I will redownload the file – Nick_Gkoutzas Apr 18 '20 at 14:09
Hey Nick, in your other post it states the file seems corrupt. Try again with the download, otherwise perhaps try to use something like 7Zip to see if this is a compression issue. – DankyNanky Apr 18 '20 at 14:17

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered May 27 '21 at 00:07

A better question is "How did you create the zip file?" If you made it in an editor, it's not "really" a zip archive and unzip won't work. If you want the contents, use cat hello.zip. To properly create a zip file, you can use, zip filename.zip filename.

Can't extract zip file Ubuntu 18.04

2 Answers2