![]() If you know in advance that you’re happy to have the file in the directory overwritten by the file from the archive, use the -f (force) option. If you try to extract a file in a directory where the original file-or a different file with the same-exists, gzip will prompt you to choose to abandon the extraction or to overwrite the existing file. RELATED: Why Deleted Files Can Be Recovered, and How You Can Prevent It Decompressing and Overwriting This time, gzip doesn’t delete the archive file. The following command will extract the contents of to the current directory. ZIP files don’t carry details of file ownership. unzip sourcecode.zip As the files are extracted they are listed to the terminal window. ![]() Once you have verified that, let’s see how to use unzip in Linux terminal. To retain the archive file, we need to use the -k (keep) option again, as well as the -d (decompress) option. Once you have an archive, you can extract it with the tar command. To extract the files from a ZIP file, use the unzip command, and provide the name of the ZIP file. On Ubuntu and Debian, you can use this command: sudo apt install unzip. This time, we can see that gzip has deleted the archive file after extracting the original file. This command is basically an alias to gzip -d: gunzip filename.gz You might find it easier to remember gunzip than gzip -d. This will extract the compressed file from the archive and decompress it so that it is indistinguishable from the original file. In Ubuntu and Debian based distributions, you can use the command below to install unzip. gz file, use the -d option: gzip -d filename.gz Another command that you can use to decompress a Gzip file is gunzip. To decompress (or unzip) a GZ archive file, use the -d (decompress) option. This time the original ODS file is retained. Gzip -k calc-sheet.ods ls -lh calc-sheet.*
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