Questions tagged [extract]

Extracting is a term used in archive-management which means uncompressing the files and folders from the compressed format.

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Extract a .zip.part file

I downloaded a Canon MF4410 Driver for Linux. I got a .zip.part file, and the unzip command in the terminal doesn't work with it. Is it possible to extract such a file?
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How to extract audio from Webm without transcoding?

Audio within mp4 and flv files is AAC , and a proper container for that is m4a . So, in order to extract sound from mp4 and flv I use a command like gnome-terminal -e "parallel avconv -i '{}' -map 0:1 -c:a copy '{}.m4a' ::: %F" and add it to…
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Can't extract anything in 7z - Unknown error -2147024872 - Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS

I just can't extract any .rar or .zip or .7z file with 7z. The program reads: Scanning the drive for archives: ERROR: No more files Then the file's name. And then: System ERROR: Error desconocido -2147024872 When I installed the program used: "sudo…
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Show content of huge txt/json file without extracting huge zip file

I got a zip file of ~400MB and within it there are certain txt/json files roughly in the range of 400MB - 1GB size. I simply want to view first 100 lines of a target file without extracting it from the zip, without swamping out my memory. (very low)…
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simple tar and extract command

I am new to Ubuntu (terminal especially) and I am experimenting with the tar command. I have created a /test folder containing one single /test.txt file at /var/www/html/test/test.txt . I would like to tar only the /test folder (and its contents) to…
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How can I open a .gz.td file?

I have a file named IBM Quickstart Linux.gz.td , which I am having trouble extracting. Archive Manager says that it is not supported. How do I extract .gz.td files in Ubuntu 15.04?
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How to extract Synopsys .tz files on ubuntu

I have downloaded some tar fies for my CAD tools( from their site ). When I extracted my tar, it gave out .tz files. How can I extract files from them or isn't it a tar archive ? Please help me.
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Error While Extracting files - "Error setting owner"

I'm using Xubuntu 13.10. Downloaded Eclipse. Tried to extract the tar file and I got the error as seen in the image. I have tried the following: Opened it up in the archive manager. It opens up properly. Tried to downloaded it multiple times just to…
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Gimp (GAP) on Ubuntu 10.04

There's a picture of what comes up. This comes up every time I try to extract videorange. I've tried .mp4, .MPG, and .flv files and it says the same thing each time. I looked it up on youtube, and .mp4 worked for someone else. I'm pretty sure that…
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How to bulk-extract objects from swf (Adobe Flash) files with swfextract?

swftools are a unique set of tools but lack some user friendliness. They can't even iterate over provided objects: Only one file allowed. You supplied at least two. $ swfextract file.swf -i 1,2 warning! You should use the -P when extracting multiple…
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How is it possible to extract a file multiple times from a tar file?

I created a tar file of a directory and then extracted some files with their names using the v option. Now if I run the same command again, I still got the same output. Why is it so? Why am I able to extract a file again if it has already been…
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Add password option to default compress menu - 20.04

when I click the compress option on a file or folder, by right clicking on that file and choosing compress, I am presented with a simple menu form that only lets me choose the type of file to convert to: zip, 7zip, tar.xz. Is it possible to add the…
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How to fix "Extract here" in context menu of Nautilus in Ubuntu 18.04 LTS

I have very strange problem with Nautilus on my fresh Ubuntu 18.04 LTS with Gnome. When I try to use "Extract here" context menu of Nautilus on some zip archive (700 Mb+ size), it creates folder named same as archive, also creates whole folders and…
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Extract a specific pdf from a zip file with lots of pdfs

Given: Name and Location of Zip-File. Example: collectionOfPdfFiles2017.zip Zip File is a collection of PDFs without folder structure Name of PDF File in Zip-File. Example: someFileFrom2017.pdf Wanted: Console way of extracting the named PDF from…
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Ubuntu 18.04 Extracting files "parsing filters is unsupported"

Running Ubuntu 18.04 on a laptop. I tried extracting a file(~700MB) using right click+extract here but got the following error message: The file contains mainly pdfs, but also text files, some executables, but it does have alot of files which…
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