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		pixl97 on Sept 15, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: My favourite API is a zipfile on the European Cent... At least in Ubuntu it doesn't do anything at all. # gunzip -d master.zip gunzip: master.zip: unknown suffix -- ignored

lxgr on Sept 15, 2023 [–]

It's a ZIP file, so you'll want to use unzip, not gunzip.

Ubuntu's version of g(un)zip actually does tolerate ZIP inputs though; for that usage, just omit the '-d'.

hddqsb on Sept 16, 2023 | [–]

Per the docs (I linked them in another comment), the correct command is `gunzip <foo.zip` or `gunzip -S .zip foo.zip`.

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