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How to extract zip files on Linux?

One of my students who switched to Linux recently asked this question. There are many utilities with GUI for handling archives, but it’s better done with a terminal command.

  1. Start a Terminal.
  2. If “unzip” utility is not installed, try this command to install it. (on Debian Linux distributions and its derivatives, Ubuntu, Linux Mint etc.)

    sudo apt-get install unzip

  3. We want to unzip a file named “trust-rist-master.zip” in my “home” directoryunzip
  4. Type the command as follows

    unzip trust-rist-master.zip

  5. It will extract the archive in the same directory, with the name of zip files as directory name  unzip

Thanks Ashwin for bringing up with this question !

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