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unzip — Extract files/directories from Zip archives. See also: `zip`. More information: <https://manned.org/

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Problem

How to use the unzip command: Extract files/directories from Zip archives. See also: zip. More information: <https://manned.org/unzip>.

Solution

unzip — Extract files/directories from Zip archives. See also: zip. More information: <https://manned.org/unzip>.

Extract all files/directories from specific archives into the current directory:

unzip {{path/to/archive1.zip path/to/archive2.zip ...}}

Extract files/directories from archives to a specific path:

unzip {{path/to/archive1.zip path/to/archive2.zip ...}} -d {{path/to/output}}

Extract files/directories from archives to stdout alongside the extracted file names:

unzip -c {{path/to/archive1.zip path/to/archive2.zip ...}}

Extract an archive created on Windows, containing files with non-ASCII (e.g. Chinese or Japanese characters) filenames:

unzip -O {{gbk}} {{path/to/archive1.zip path/to/archive2.zip ...}}

List the contents of a specific archive without extracting them:

unzip -l {{path/to/archive}}.zip

Extract specific files from an archive:

unzip -j {{path/to/archive}}.zip {{path/to/file1_in_archive path/to/file2_in_archive ...}}

Code Snippets

Extract all files/directories from specific archives into the current directory

unzip {{path/to/archive1.zip path/to/archive2.zip ...}}

Extract files/directories from archives to a specific path

unzip {{path/to/archive1.zip path/to/archive2.zip ...}} -d {{path/to/output}}

Extract files/directories from archives to `stdout` alongside the extracted file names

unzip -c {{path/to/archive1.zip path/to/archive2.zip ...}}

Extract an archive created on Windows, containing files with non-ASCII (e.g. Chinese or Japanese characters) filenames

unzip -O {{gbk}} {{path/to/archive1.zip path/to/archive2.zip ...}}

List the contents of a specific archive without extracting them

unzip -l {{path/to/archive}}.zip

Context

tldr-pages: common/unzip

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