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Extracting is a term used in archive-management which means uncompressing the files and folders from the compressed format.

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initrd.lz lzma extract error

i am trying to extract the initrd.lz from the casper folder lzma -dc -S .lz initrd.lz | cpio -imvd --no-absolute-filenames and i get this message: lzma: Decoder error cpio: premature end of archive i am using ubuntu 10.10, is there another command…
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How to extract a Inno Setup Installer

How to extract a Inno Setup Installer. This is not a .7z, or any other file that 7z can extract. according to the file command this is a file of the type: PE32 executable (GUI) Intel 80386, for MS Windows And exiftool says this: ............ …
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How to solve simg2img error "Invalid sparse file format at header magi"?

I installed android-tools-fsutils using the terminal on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and ran simg2img to extract RemixOS's system.img file but each time I get the same error - "Invalid sparse file format at header magi." Can someone tell me how to fix it?
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How to extract Synopsys .tz files on ubuntu

I have downloaded some tar fies for my CAD tools( from their site ). When I extracted my tar, it gave out .tz files. How can I extract files from them or isn't it a tar archive ? Please help me.
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Ubuntu 18.04 Extracting files "parsing filters is unsupported"

Running Ubuntu 18.04 on a laptop. I tried extracting a file(~700MB) using right click+extract here but got the following error message: The file contains mainly pdfs, but also text files, some executables, but it does have alot of files which…
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How to mimick the 7zip "extract to "."" context menu option from Windows

I'm pretty new at using the terminal and was wondering how to place a folder full of .zip files into sub folders named the same as the .zip file it was extracted from. So far I figured that unzip '*.zip' -d will extract all the .zip files into a…
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How to extract .zix file in Ubuntu?

I am using Ubuntu 15.10,I have downloaded a Torrent file with .zix extension,is there any way to open and play it?
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Is their an application to extract data from files?

I want to extract data from large group of files based on a regular expression. Is their an application, script, batch or terminal command to do this?
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Why does a "Extract Here" context menu work incorrectly?

I'm a beginner in Linux. I extracted a android-ndk-r8e-linux-x86.tar.bz2 in Downloads directory with a "Extract Here" context menu. And I executed "ndk-build" command. Then I got an error message like below. ndk-build arm-linux-androideabi.gcc :…
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Can't extract files

This error comes up when I try to extract the file or use it: Any idea why?
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extracting data from a text file

I am trying to extract a data (temperature) from a text file downloaded from wget. eg. wget http://www.weatherzone.com.au/sa/adelaide/adelaide How to I extract the information which is "18.6" from the file and copy it to another file to be used by…
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Installing SHOUTcast on Ubuntu Server 12.04

I'm new to Ubuntu, so please forgive me. I need to install a SHOUTcast server on the machine. Currently, I have the file "sc_serv2_linux_x64_11_29_2013.tar.gz" on a flash drive. How can I copy the file and extract it? I already tried other methods…
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How can i extract a file in ubuntu?

I have a zip file ( which is named ccnx-0.7.0.tar.gzip) and a related sha file( which is named ccnx-0.7.0.tar.gz.SHA1). i downloaded them from "https://www.ccnx.org/software-archives/#" how can i extract this file in ubuntu? thanks in advanced
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extact pattern with bash tool

(a) 0.2.0-123-g9e17591 (b) 0.2.0-g9e17591 How to get 0.2.0-123 and 0.2.0 respectively ? How to extract number 0 & 123 from "0.2.0-123-g9e17591" and 2 & 0 from "0.2.0-g9e17591"
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Pentaho PDI on Ubuntu 18

I have Pentaho setup and running on Windows 10, I am planning to migrate to Ubuntu. Has anyone setup Pentaho on Ubuntu 18.04? If yes, what is the configuration you are using? Pentaho documentation says mentions Ubuntu 14 and 16 to be used and are…
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