Comments on: Extracting archived files

By: docpopster

docpopster — Mon, 26 May 2008 04:28:22 +0000

Which unzip program is best for linux?

By: alvlin

alvlin — Thu, 22 May 2008 00:11:19 +0000

Of course, that’s why they exist and why I started my comment writing “I personally prefer”.
Which doesn’t mean I don’t use graphical tools, they are much better than cli utilities when you only want to extract 1 file to a specific folder, for example.

By: Clair

Clair — Wed, 21 May 2008 12:59:46 +0000

Thanks for the tip. Though of course some people still prefer to have a graphical tool.

By: alvlin

alvlin — Tue, 20 May 2008 13:03:16 +0000

I recently find out there is a 7zip frontend called Q7zip. I haven’t tried it yet, but it is there.

I personally prefer command line versions of the programs. When you have a file of several GBs and thousands of files, the graphical tools are amazingly slow.

The command line versions will not try to get the file index, they’ll just do the job. And is not difficult at all, for unzip you use

unzip x filename.zip

for tar.gz

tar -zxvf filename.tar.gz

for tar.bz2

tar -jxvf filename.tar.bz2

for rar

unrar e filename.rar

and for 7z

7z e filename.7z

Faster and more efficient (no clics, no file browsing, just 3 words written in a cli) than graphical tools