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Another way to unzip zip archives from the command line
There definitely is more than one way to skin this cat. And reasons to use different tools, example:
I just down loaded a new free album from http://www.comfortstand.com/ and some thing was funky about the zip archive I got. When I tried the double clicking a unarchiving window opens and I can tell my machine is chewing on what should be in a blink, a done deal (I mean go get a drink, come back and every thing has slowed because of this effort kind of job). I get tried of waiting and cancel the job. Rather than burn more bandwidth, I open terminal and try my favorite can opener.
Works for almost anything on a redhat linux box, but no joy this time. Bash (terminal) called me a dummy and said the file had bad obsolescent base-64 headers. Not one to take a hint I tried.
unknown suffix -- ignored
Maybe This is a lost cause. I may have to give up and down load again. What the hey I try.
Guess what! Archive: csr005.zip creating: csr005/ extracting: csr005/csr005-03-the-apartment-the-moon-is-full.mp3 extracting: csr005/csr005-01-the-apartment-alone-now.mp3 extracting: csr005/csr005-02-the-apartment-dig-a-hole.mp3 extracting: csr005/csr005-05-the-apartment-ooh-what-fun.mp3 extracting: csr005/csr005-04-the-apartment-flowing.mp3 extracting: csr005/csr005.jpg extracting: csr005/threeforks-slimart.jpgNew Music, iTunes here we come. So what was the deal? I don't have a clue as to why double clicking did not work. But I do know there are many unix archiving unarchiving tools some are named for what they do and what type files they work on. I know of a hand full; tar, gzip, gunzip, zip, unzip, bzip2, bunzip2, bzip2recover, compress, uncopress, pax, cpio. You can find man pages for all of these and more. Go ahead open your terminal and try
More is less, or is that less the opposite of more I don't know....... if unix was any more fun they would make it a game pack for playstation.
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