Linux file extraction tool question.

[Valfossa]

Is there a file extraction unzip tool on Linux, that stops asking you for user input when you have duplicate files, read me's for a example.

The reason I ask, is that no matter what setting I use on something like peazip, override existing files, skips files, update files, it will still ask for input.

There doesn't seem anything online about this, and this was not a problem on Windows.

I set a bunch zipped files on Windows with 7zip, and it would only ask me one time and never again, this example again is read me text files. I looked in the back end of Peazip on Linux, and it says it has said option I want, skip existing files, but it will still ask for user input anyway no matter what option I use.

So is this a bug? Or is this a problem with Linux file systems itself?

And if there is a way, please no terminal only programs I would rather use a GUI if possible.

[NightKnight]

I don't thing is a bug , perhaps you need to edit the config file of what archive manager are you using :)

[Valfossa]

I have, In case of Peazip. It still asks for user input.

[Ronnicat]

7zip is cross platform and is the only one I use for Linux and Windows. I have used it for decades in Linux now.

[Valfossa]

Originally posted by Ronnicat:

7zip is cross platform and is the only one I use for Linux and Windows. I have used it for decades in Linux now.

Is it 7zip terminal, or is there a 7zip GUI other then P7Zip as I heard that was discontinued since 2016.

And does it function like Windows 7zip, as in it can ignore repeated files after one prompted.

[Zyro]

I didn't try it, but seems to be worth an attempt:

unzip -o

See https://linux.die.net/man/1/unzip

[Ronnicat]

I never used it in the terminal. If this does not help. There is a site I go to called AlternativeTo ( alternativeto.net ) . But according to them it is 110 alternatives and PeaZip is the best alternative to 7zip. I do hope I helped some.

[lonesh33p]

@Chrisader, it seems most common in Linux distros for compression to be handled by a plug-in (such as p7zip-full) to an archive app (such as file-roller) with tight integration to a file manager (such as Thunar). If you're open to that approach you might want to mention what distro you're using.

Edit: Kinda sorta looks like PCManFM-Qt auto-skips when configured to use Engrampa. (In fact it doesn't appear possible to make it ask - you can either auto-skip or auto-overwrite. I guess if you need "ask" you could configure the file manager to use a different archiver.) I mainly use the terminal so I might not be the best tester.

Afterthought: I somehow got the impression that the OP specifically needed auto-skip. I should have asked for clarification. If auto-over-write is OK, my initial impression is that some of the other archivers have a persistent setting for that. But I didn't test it.

[King of Yugoslavia]

Originally posted by Chrisader:

Is there a file extraction unzip tool on Linux, that stops asking you for user input when you have duplicate files, read me's for a example.

The reason I ask, is that no matter what setting I use on something like peazip, override existing files, skips files, update files, it will still ask for input.

There doesn't seem anything online about this, and this was not a problem on Windows.

I set a bunch zipped files on Windows with 7zip, and it would only ask me one time and never again, this example again is read me text files. I looked in the back end of Peazip on Linux, and it says it has said option I want, skip existing files, but it will still ask for user input anyway no matter what option I use.

So is this a bug? Or is this a problem with Linux file systems itself?

And if there is a way, please no terminal only programs I would rather use a GUI if possible.

I am on kde and using its Ark archive manager. If there is merging conflict, there is a popup window with a checkbox "apply to all" to skip futher questions.
https://i.imgur.com/RhMBKw9.png

it is totally not an issue with "linux file system" lol, or linux itself.
Linux is just a kernel, and file system in wide sense a combination of layout of data on a storage media, and a driver (or a kernel module) that reads and writes data from that media, and apart from doing that, it leaves all decision making to file management programs and user's input.