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In order to “unzip” a file using terminal, make sure you have the application installed on your system.
Zipping files using the terminal
Installing zip Application
To install “zip” on CentOS issue the following command in your terminal
sudo yum install zip
To install “zip” on Ubuntu issue the following command in your terminal –
sudo apt-get install zip
Using the zip Application
Now if you want to simply zip a file/folder, you can use the following command –
zip -r zippedFileName.zip foldertozip
Unzipping files using the terminal
Installing unzip Application
To install “unzip” on CentOS issue the following command in your terminal
sudo yum install unzip
To install “unzip” on Ubuntu issue the following command in your terminal –
sudo apt-get install unzip
Using the unzip Application
Now if you want to extract a file to a particular destination folder, you can use the following command –
unzip filetounzip.zip -d path_to_destination_folder
If you want to extract the file in its current location then you can issue the following command –
unzip filetounzip.zip