Unix system(“unzip archive.zip”) Extracting Zip Files Silently

Question

How do I silently extract files, without displaying status?

score 51 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 16 '17 at 22:56

man unzip:

   -q     perform  operations  quietly  (-qq  = even quieter).  Ordinarily
          unzip prints the names of the files it's extracting or  testing,
          the extraction methods, any file or zipfile comments that may be
          stored in the archive, and possibly a summary when finished with
          each  archive.   The -q[q] options suppress the printing of some
          or all of these messages.

score 10 · Answer 2 · edited Jun 11 '20 at 14:16

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From the unzip man page:

-q

perform operations quietly (-qq = even quieter). Ordinarily unzip prints the names of the files it's extracting or testing, the extraction methods, any file or zipfile comments that may be stored in the archive, and possibly a summary when finished with each archive. The -q[q] options suppress the printing of some or all of these messages.

So unzip -qq yourfile.zip it is.

edited Jun 11 '20 at 14:16

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answered Jan 16 '17 at 22:59

Artemis

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This answer exists already – George Vasiliou Jan 16 '17 at 23:00
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I'm sorry, it did not when I started typing. – Artemis Jan 16 '17 at 23:01

score 2 · Answer 3 · answered Jan 16 '17 at 23:09

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PHP has an extension for that

http://php.net/manual/en/book.zip.php

<?php
$zip = new ZipArchive;
if ($zip->open('test.zip') === TRUE) {
    $zip->extractTo('/my/destination/dir/');
    $zip->close();
    echo 'ok';
} else {
    echo 'failed';
}
?>

answered Jan 16 '17 at 23:09

Michael D.

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Well, ZipArchive library and other libraries didn't work for my sever. – Adedoyin Akande Jan 16 '17 at 23:11
http://pecl.php.net/package/zip – Michael D. Jan 16 '17 at 23:15
Tried that too didn't work, had to do a unix function before it worked. Thanks Anyway – Adedoyin Akande Jan 16 '17 at 23:17

score 1 · Answer 4 · answered Jan 17 '17 at 05:45

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I suggest with this is using gunzip command

gunzip /path/to/file/filename.z

this will also output silently

answered Jan 17 '17 at 05:45

vip_noob

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Unix system(“unzip archive.zip”) Extracting Zip Files Silently

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