

The “ t” in “ xopf t” (for tar) or “ -v” (for unzip) both enable respective verbose mode – so you’ll see in the Terminal window what is going on during the extraction. …or if you need to extract the files to a different location add: tar xop zip-file.zip -C /another/directory/to/extract/to Remarks about verbose output

Tar ft zip-file.zip Extract the ZIP file using the tar command to the same location tar xop zip-file.zip when in the Recovery Mode of a Mac – but you still need to unzip a ZIP file, you can use the tar command instead! Unzip a ZIP file using tar in the Terminal bash (Optional) preview contents of a ZIP file using tar cd /directory/where/zip-file/is/located In case the unzip bash command in macOS Terminal.app is not available or working – e.g.
