Andrew Fletcher published: 7 July 2021 1 minute read
This short guide explains to you how to extract/unzip .zip archive files to a specific or different directory in Linux.
Install zip
sudo apt-get install zip
Zip a directory
Zip your folder:
zip -r {filename.zip} {directory}
Unzip
unzip {filename.zip}
Extract zip file to a different directory
mkdir -p /tmp/unziped
$ unzip {filename.zip} -d {/directory/path}