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How to Download and unzip a file in AWS EC2 ubuntu apache server and cut, copy, paste,

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Pooja
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Unzip a file

Ubuntu distributions usually include the zip and unzip utilities. If for some reason yours does not, use the following command to install it:

First of all install wget plugin, for downloading any file from internet on my server:

sudo apt-get install wget

Install Zip Unzip Software, for compress or extracting the compressed file:

sudo apt-get install zip unzip

Remember, at the time of installing wordpress or any other cms on ubuntu server, change your directory to html, for this enter the following command:

cd /var/www/html

Now Download a zipped file from internet, for example- we are going to download Wordpress

sudo wget https://wordpress.org/latest.zip

To see the downloaded file, enter the following command:

ls /var/www/html

Now extract the downloaded file (unzip):

sudo unzip latest.zip

For Copy A File

The cp command is the primary method for copying files and directories in Linux. Virtually all Linux distributions can use cp. The basic format of the command is:

sudo cp [additional_option] file target_folder

For example:

sudo cp my_file.txt desired-folder

Copy all files from a folder: Go to the directory, where you want to copy;

sudo cp -r * /var/www/html

where '/var/www/html' is target folder (Where files are located or those files folder which you want to copy).

For delete a file or folder

sudo rm -rf  index.html

where 'index.html' is target file or folder

Zip a file

Zip stores relative path names by default. There are several parameter-options available for zip. For that read: the manual (man zip). For a starting this will do.

zip -r archive.zip folder

where:

  • -r means "recursive".
  • folder - Replace your folder name that you want to compress.
  • archive.zip - After compression the file name of compressed file.

To unzip you simply use

unzip my_arch.zip

.tar.gz Compression

Most often you will see .tar.gz endings in linux-world. That's the product of two tools: TAR (the tape archiver) and GZIP (the GNU-Zip). Tar has got the call option to automatically gzip/gunzip files after "taring".

tar -cvzf may_arch.tar.gz my_folder

where

  • -c means "create"
  • -v means "verbose" (sometimes bothersome and slowing down...)
  • -z means "use (GNU)zip"
  • -f XYZ declares the name of the output file. (You should chose a helping name like XYZ.tar.gz)

There may also be .tar.bz2 endings. This is the product of the -j parameter instead of the -z parameter: you will choose compression with BZIP2 (-> man bzip2).

To extract you simply use -x (eXtract) instead of -c (Create):

tar -xvzf may_arch.tar.gz

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