How to Unzip a Folder in Linux
GNU/Linux is an operating system released under the GNU license by Linus Torvalds. The Linux operating system is released in a number of distributions, almost all of which contain access to the standard suite of GNU tools, including the unzip application. These applications allow you to zip and unzip files from a command-line Linux environment. Although you can inflate a zipped folder using the unzip tool, you must first install the tool if it is not already available.
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Instructions
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Open a new terminal by clicking "Application," "System Tools," "Terminal" on the Linux desktop.
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Type "apt-get install unzip" without quotes as a root user. You can run the command as root from another user by typing "sudo apt-get install unzip" if your account has sudo privileges.
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Type "yum install unzip" if you are using RedHat or Fedora Linux, as this will use the YUM package manager, which specializes in RedHat-compatible files.
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Navigate to the directory containing your zip file by typing "cd /path/to/directory" without quotes, and replacing "/path/to/directory" with the path to the folder containing your .zip file archive.
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Type "unzip <file.zip>" to unzip the contents of the zip file to the current folder. This command will decompress everything contained in the current folder and make it all immediately accessible. You must have access to the directory to which the file is being unzipped.
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