Hi,

The zip file is compress file archieve which may contain one or more files in it. If you unzip the file then you will contents of the file in your directory.

For some reason you want to extract the contents into a specify directory then you can use the -d option with the unzip command.

For example your zip file name is mydata.zip and you want to extract to a folder /opt/data/mydata then you can use the following comand;

unzip -d /opt/data/mydata/ mydata.zip

Above unzip command will extract the content of mydata.zip into the /opt/data/mydata/ directory.

If your zip file contains folders and subfolders then unzip command will create folders and sub-folders for placing the files in correct location.

So, you will get correct folder structure after unzipping your file.

Hope this will help you in understanding the use of unzip command.

Thanks