extracting files?

[textbook]

Does extracting mean unpacking a small file into a bigger file? And when you extract it where does it go. I extracted some files and can't find where they went?
Do you extract a zip file or rar file?

 

[tremmor]

Does extracting mean unpacking a small file into a bigger file? And when you extract it where does it go. I extracted some files and can't find where they went?
Do you extract a zip file or rar file?

I use winrar. It does it all. I can right click the zip or rar and extract in place.
The original stays there and a directory will be created in same place. Now ya have the original and the extraction.

 

[S.T.A.R.S.]

Does extracting mean unpacking a small file into a bigger file? And when you extract it where does it go. I extracted some files and can't find where they went?
Do you extract a zip file or rar file?

COMPRESSION is the process of reducing the size of 1 file or more files by encoding their data information more efficiently.On that way you can make your files which are currently big 10 MB to be big 8 or less MB.People usually compress files when they want to put many files into 1 single file and make it smaller so that people can download it faster.But of course when THOSE PEOPLE who downloaded that COMPRESSED file want to open it,they must use the appropriate program to EXTRACT/UNPACK/OPEN the COMPRESSED/PACKED/CLOSED file.I for example use the 7-zip program to extract the compressed file or files,but other programs like WinRar are also very good.

You can know that the file is compressed by looking at it's name extension at the end.Here are some of them:

.rar
.zip
.7z
.iso
.tar
.dmg
.cab

And so on...

 

[pane-free]

Test the files to see where they will go once extracted

tar.gz files

tar -zvtf filename.tar.gz

Is this the type of info you desire, see Linux Phrasebook, by Scott Granneman
ISBN-10 0-672-32838-0, pp. 165-191.

 

[cabinfever1977]

look in your my document folder.