How Can I Unzip a Zip File with Creating a New Folder on the Given Path in Linux
I Have to Unzip a File, I Don't Want to Cd and Then Run Mkdir Newfolder Then Come Again to the Folder Where I Have the Zip File and Then Run Unzip File. Zip...
i have to unzip a file, i don't want to CD and then run mkdir newfolder then come again to the folder where i have the zip file and then run unzip file.zip /home/user/newfolder
i want to simply run the command from the whichever directory i am it will create the folder for me or ask me that on location /home/user there's no newfolder directory exist do you want to create one (Y/n)? and chose it to y (doesn't matter if this operation need root access)
i have checked unzip swtiches and google but in all the exmaples they make a directory then unzip the file in it
i am using Debian Buster
1 Answer
man unzip says:
unzip [-Z] [-cflptTuvz[abjnoqsCDKLMUVWX$/:^]] file[.zip] [file(s) ...] [-x xfile(s) ...] [-d exdir]
[-d exdir] An optional directory to which to extract files. By default, all files and subdirectories are recreated in the current directory; the -d option allows extraction in an arbitrary directory (always assuming one has permission to write to the directory). This option need not appear at the end of the command line; it is also accepted before the zipfile specification (with the normal options), immediately after the zipfile specification, or between the file(s) and the -x option. The option and directory may be concatenated without any white space between them, but note that this may cause normal shell behavior to be suppressed. In particular,
-d ~(tilde) is expanded by Unix C shells into the name of the user's home directory, but-d~is treated as a literal subdirectory~of the current directory.
Alternatively, 7zip (7z command) supports the ZIP format and has a -o parameter for the same purpose
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