Hi I know this is dumb - but in all the time I have used Linux I have rarely if ever used .zip type compressed files.

In any case having read around I have found that the command to unzip these kinds of compressed files is simple enough. It involves nothing more than doing 'unzip filename.zip'. However I have also found that if I do this in a directory in which I am working which contains a zip file, the zip file will always be uncompressed to my home directory, i.e. '/home/my_user_name/', How can I ensure that when uncompressing zip files that instead of getting uncompressed to my home directory, they get extracted to the current working directory ?

Thanks in advance!

GJ

Reading the output of unzip --help was most enlightening. Try it sometime.

Yes and your initial comment was helpful although your susquent comment was less so.

But thanks all the same.

As it happens I am at work and don't have time to read through a long dry manual just to find the answer to a simple question - which is why I rather thought that perhaps it might be a time saver to simply ask.

Moreover I have found that this is happening with all compressed file types, regardless of their extension - which is just plumb out of the ordinary. I know the CLI options for most other file types, so why would they suddenly decide to only extract exlusively to my home directory?

GJ

So glad people can do all the work for you then, since your time is more important than ours...

Too many people in this world find it easier and quicker to ask someone else and try and pass on the problem, instead of researching themselves, a few more generations and we'll be mindless zombies.

That said, man and info are excellent ways to discover options you never knew existed.

Well you see that's the problem with this world, sometimes I don't know if some people are genuinely willing to help and be nice, or whether they just want to bitch, show off and make someone else feel bad because they are having a particularly bad day. Well now both our days are a little less pleasant than when we first started, so I guess at least we are even on that score too.

No one twisted your arm to comment - and if it is so much effort then in future simply don't.

If I had had had a work collegue beside me I may have asked them (and truth be told it is likely that most normal people would do this too). Unfortunately my boss asked me how to do something and I needed a quick answer and since I know that the majority of people are often only too willing to help and to share their wisdom, I thought this might be a quicker approach.

In any case, unfortunately your suggestion a) didn't work and b) as I said there appears to be some kind of weird bug going on with the Window manager I am using that causes everything (regarless of the file extension) to be decompressed to my home directory, so unfortunately the problem is not as simple as I first envisaged.

But thanks for trying anyway.

GJ

The output of 'unzip --help' is around 25 lines. If you can't manage that at work it's time to start looking for a new job sport.
How do you extract archives? From a GUI or terminal app directly?

Again I was pushed for time. Let's not take it further than that. As for 'a new carreer' - well I don't tend to work with the computers at work and the tech guy was off, or I would normally ask him - as usually he doesn't expect me to know everything 'off the bat' as it were and he is on the whole, generally always only too happy to help.

But anyway, I digress. (and hopefully there has been enough digression in this thread already).

As I said this appears to be a window manager issue. Specifically a Rox filer window manager issue - which as it is getting a tad obscure to hope for an answer here, since I am sure not that many people actually use Rox filer, might be better suited to the Rox mailing list. Which is what I now intend to try.

But as I said,

thanks all the same.

Okay, I use ROX Filer but don't try asking then. Whatever.