Feeling confused about How to Unzip files and folders using an Ubuntu server? Sometimes you might need to upload or download a folder or file to/from your server and the folder/file can be of any size. It can take a lot of time to upload a folder or file to the server.
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Also, it is a lot faster to move one large compressed file rather than multiple numbers of small files. Also, the FTP clients like FileZilla do not allow unzipping or zipping of files, but you can still do it via ssh(secure shell).
Step 1: Login to the server :
ssh username@ your_server_ip
Example : ssh [email protected]
Step 2: Install zip (in case you do not have). To install the zip, type the following command
apt-get install zip
Step 3: Now to zip the folder or file enter the following command
zip -r example.zip original_folder
Here example.zip will be the zipped file while “original_folder” is the folder which you want to zip
This command will make the .zip file in the same folder where “original_folder” is present. But you can
change the destination of the target folder where zip file will be created. To change the destination folder
of .zip file while creating it just prepend the address where you want to create the .zip file
Note: Use -r in the command for the folder having more than one file or folder and do not use -r for
single file. Use the following command for a single file
zip singlefile.zip original_file
Step 1 : Login to the server via terminal
Step 2 : Install unzip (in case you do not have). To Install the unzip, type the following command
sudo apt-get install unzip
Step 3 : Navigate to the directory where .zip file, which you want to unzip, is present
Step 4 : Now type the following command to unzip the file
unzip default.zip
where default is the filename which you wish to unzip
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