unzip Command Examples

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 a specific file from an archive:

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