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Questions tagged [unzip]

unzip refers to the utility unzip or an action of unzipping.

The unzip utility lets you list, test, and extract compressed files from a ZIP archive. The questions under this tag can be related to:

  • Errors during using unzip
  • Help/errors during unzipping a ZIP archive
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unzip error "End-of-central-directory signature not found"

I try to unzip a zip file, but got an error: $ unzip COCR2_100.zip Archive: COCR2_100.zip End-of-central-directory signature not found. Either this file is not a zipfile, or it constitutes one disk of a multi-part archive. In the latter…
Tim
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I would like to unzip as different file name

Ok i need to extract a zip archive named 'example.zip' but i would like to extract it as a different file name, not 'example' being my folder name, how could i extract a zip archive using unzip called 'example.zip' and extract it as the folder name…
owski.phillips
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unzip multiple files

I don't think that I'm the only one with this problem, but unfortunately I wasn't able to find the proper answer between previously asked questions. It is a very common procedure on torrent sites where the content is split in many small archives.…
rda
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Unzipping large file: bad zipfile offset (local header sig)

I am unzipping a file with approximately 3 million single text files - the zip-file itself is around 12 GB in size. It's not multi-part - it's just one large zip file btw. I do not have the original data - all I have is the zipped file which means I…
Stefan Falk
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Unable to unzip a file with the ubuntu terminal

I have got the following error message. The zip file(5GB) may be too big Archive: /home/wing92518/Documents/simulation_set_1_result/replication_1.zip warning [/home/wing92518/Documents/simulation_set_1_result/replication_1.zip]: 849850736 extra…
wing
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unzip a file .zip.part using terminal

i have downoalded the file VSCode-linux-x64.zip.part,i want to install this program on ubuntu platform i taped 'sudo unzip VSCode-linux-x64.zip.part -d /the folder path ' but it dosen't work i have this message 'unzip: cannot find or open…
Houayda Gharbi
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how to unzip .zip file and its sub directories

I have a zip file and in that I have multiple folders zipped. How do I unzip all the files in one shot. I tried unzip -r but it didn't work Regards, Vikas
Vikas T.M
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Can't unzip owncloud

I wanted to download owncloud to my ubuntu server, but it can't unzip it, it doesn't recognize my file, and then the file is there, but it doesn't recognize it. I tried to delete it and download it again, but it didn't work. I downloaded it from cd…
chipu
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