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Unzip app for Ubuntu

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IamDavid

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Hate the built in extractor. Need one that can extract all formats and handle ultiple files at once. Any suggestions?

 
unzip * 😛


I never use the GUI programs for playing with zip/tar files. I find the CLI tools to be far more efficient.
 
I've always used the command line or the built in extractor which has handled all the formats I use (rar, tar, gzip, zip, and bz2)
 
cli, only it is matter to figure out what extracts what.

for example, what extracts rar files? (beside utility from winrar, which is free but not OSS)
 
*sighs* This is why linux doesn't become mainstream. Get your heads out of your elitist CLI tailpipes. A desktop user doesn't want to have to to su into an admin terminal just to unzip something. There should be something like Izarc. Right click file, unzip, no matter what of the 30 different compression formats out there. If Linux can't do this yet, that just proves why it's not ready for the public.

What do you know, there is. http://peazip.sourceforge.net/ Cogman already mentioned it.
 
*sighs* This is why linux doesn't become mainstream. Get your heads out of your elitist CLI tailpipes. A desktop user doesn't want to have to to su into an admin terminal just to unzip something. There should be something like Izarc. Right click file, unzip, no matter what of the 30 different compression formats out there. If Linux can't do this yet, that just proves why it's not ready for the public.
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This has nothing to do with Linux and it's mainstream acceptance, especially because the GUI tools for handling archives do support every format that I've ever run into so there's nothing to see here. Gnome and KDE are light years ahead of Windows in this respect because they support just about all of them out of the box while Windows Explorer barely handles zip files.
 
Originally posted by: Nothinman
*sighs* This is why linux doesn't become mainstream. Get your heads out of your elitist CLI tailpipes. A desktop user doesn't want to have to to su into an admin terminal just to unzip something. There should be something like Izarc. Right click file, unzip, no matter what of the 30 different compression formats out there. If Linux can't do this yet, that just proves why it's not ready for the public.
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This has nothing to do with Linux and it's mainstream acceptance, especially because the GUI tools for handling archives do support every format that I've ever run into so there's nothing to see here. Gnome and KDE are light years ahead of Windows in this respect because they support just about all of them out of the box while Windows Explorer barely handles zip files.
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I agree accept the fact it's not as point and click as it needs to be for regular joe's to use efficiently. Still can't find a way to queue files.
 
I agree accept the fact it's not as point and click as it needs to be for regular joe's to use efficiently. Still can't find a way to queue files.
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So regular joes don't just double-click on a zip file then either drag the contents to their desktop or double-click on the contents? That's always been my experience.
 
Originally posted by: Nothinman
I agree accept the fact it's not as point and click as it needs to be for regular joe's to use efficiently. Still can't find a way to queue files.
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So regular joes don't just double-click on a zip file then either drag the contents to their desktop or double-click on the contents? That's always been my experience.
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I never open/double click on the file. Right click, than extract here or add to queue when in windows which I'm trying to eliminate. The built in utility is now opening everything, not sure what I did to get it there but it's great. Now I need the queue.
 
Originally posted by: heymrdj
*sighs* This is why linux doesn't become mainstream. Get your heads out of your elitist CLI tailpipes. A desktop user doesn't want to have to to su into an admin terminal just to unzip something. There should be something like Izarc. Right click file, unzip, no matter what of the 30 different compression formats out there. If Linux can't do this yet, that just proves why it's not ready for the public.

What do you know, there is. http://peazip.sourceforge.net/ Cogman already mentioned it.
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Who said any of us here are "elitist"? The CLI has it's uses and so does the GUI. For file manipulation I much prefer the CLI, for web browsing a GUI is far better unless you like lynx :Q

Why do you feel the need to come in here and flame people for suggesting CLI tools? Are you a GUI elitist?

Both Gnome and KDE have built-in extraction tools, and they are quite simple to use as well. So before you come back in here and make more outlandish claims about why Linux isn't ready for the mainstream I suggest you do some more research.
 
I never open/double click on the file. Right click, than extract here or add to queue when in windows which I'm trying to eliminate. The built in utility is now opening everything, not sure what I did to get it there but it's great. Now I need the queue.
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Windows built-in unzip has a queue?
 
Originally posted by: Nothinman
I never open/double click on the file. Right click, than extract here or add to queue when in windows which I'm trying to eliminate. The built in utility is now opening everything, not sure what I did to get it there but it's great. Now I need the queue.
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Windows built-in unzip has a queue?
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Nope, and neither does Linux. And I can't seem to find an add on for it either.
 
Originally posted by: IamDavid
Originally posted by: Nothinman
I never open/double click on the file. Right click, than extract here or add to queue when in windows which I'm trying to eliminate. The built in utility is now opening everything, not sure what I did to get it there but it's great. Now I need the queue.
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Windows built-in unzip has a queue?
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Nope, and neither does Linux. And I can't seem to find an add on for it either.
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for z in *.zip; do unzip $z; done
 
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