I downloaded a big zip file (5.9GB) for an application, and as usual, to unzip it, just use unzip command.
$ unzip mybigfile.zip
I received this error, which is unusual.
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| Error when extracting using unzip command |
Then I search around to find any other zip application that can extract the file. I am pretty confident that file is fine, since the provider has provided a md5sum file, and it matches. I ended up trying "jar" command. To install jar in ubuntu, simply run below command:
$ sudo apt update && sudo apt install fastjar -y
Once installed, extract the zip file using below command
$ jar xvf mybigfile.zip
Unfortunately, jar is also unable to extract the file, with below error:
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| Error when extracting using jar command |
The I encounter another robust archiver called 7z, which can be installed in ubuntu using below command:
$ sudo apt update && sudo apt install 7zip -y
To extract a zip file, simply run this command:
$ 7z x mybigfile.zip
Even though 7z reported some error as well, but it managed to extract the file.
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| Error when extracting using 7z command |
There you go, 3 commands to extract a zip file. So do not worry if you are unable to extract any zip file, you can always try a few commands to get the job done.
