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How Do I Unzip On A Mac

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How do i unzip a file on a mac

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  1. How to Unzip Files and Folders on Mac Unzipping an archive is even easier. It doesn't matter if it's a Zip file that you downloaded on the internet or something that you compressed yourself. Navigate to the archive in the Finder app and double-click the Zip file.
  2. Open WinZip Under the 'File' menu, select 'Open Zip File From this Mac.' Or press Ctrl-O. Click on unzip button.
  3. How to Extract (Unzip) a Password Protected Zip File on macOS You can to open the Terminal program and use the command unzip. Anyway if you still are experiencing difficulty, please e-mail us to email.
  4. Download either program and then install it. After that, whenever you encounter a zipped file (a file that ends in '.zip'), just double-click on that file. Your unzip program will automatically open, and you can then choose where you want the unzipped version of that file to be saved on your computer.

Zip files are compressed files, so they're quicker to download and easier to access. However, you do have to unzip them to get to the actual information on your computer. There are 3 main ways to do this on a Mac: double clicking, using your terminal, and using an extension.

Terminal, the wonder app, can do pretty much anything. This post is going to show you how you can unzip files using Terminal. I will also show you how you can can combine commands to download and unzip files really quickly. Its really simple to complete. You may want to use Terminal since you can access extra options which you may normally be hidden away from you.

The first step is to open Terminal. High 5 slots. Use the 'cd' command to change the directory to the location where you want to unzip the zip file. For example you can use:

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The next step is to invoke the unzip command. Type the following into Terminal. This assumes you have a zip file ready to unzip.

unzip file.zip

This will unzip you file into you desktop location. If you want to change this location you can type the following.

unzip file.zip -d ~/another/folder

You can also remove all of the text that Terminal will output when you run the command by adding a modifier/option to the front of the syntax.

unzip -q file.zip

Optionally you can also add more information by adding a verbose option. This will show you all of the details of the file you unzip.

unzip -v file.zip

You can combine this command with other command so you can download and unzip a file automatically. Nintendo ds tech support phone number. For example if you have wget installed you can type in Terminal.

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cd ~/download;wget http://www.example.com/file/zip;unzip file.zip

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Adobe premiere pro cc update mac. The different commands are separated by a semi-colon (;). The previous command will change your directory to your downloads folder. It will then grab the zip file from your website and unzip the file to your location.

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The one problem with unzip command is that it creates a an extra folder called '__MACOSX' this folder would normally be hidden as it stores extra data that you don't need to see. You can easily get rid of this by combining the delete command with the unzip command.

Apple final cut pro x crack. unzip file.zip;rm -rf __MACOSX

Mac pro 2012 sierra. That will unzip the file and then delete this extra folder. You can of course combine this with the download command previously.

cd ~/download;wget http://www.example.com/file/zip;unzip file.zip;rm -rf __MACOSX

You could even take this further by moving files and folders although that would be out of the scope of this article. How quick do you reckon it would be to type that command compared to downloading a zip folder normally and then normally extracting it. You do have to type more, but it is a lot less clicking and searching in Finder.

If you want to take your skills with Terminal a bit further I recommend you check out the Terminal Category on this site. If you fancy reading a book there is a couple on Amazon that I regularly see mentioned and recommend, O'reilly Unix Geeks and Unix Under the Hood both are designed for Mac OS X and take Terminal further. Buy lion mac os.


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