Can not unzip PB

[Rudy M]

Title should be: Can not unzip PB sorry

RaspberryPi 3 model B+ Raspbian Lite with xfce4 as desktop

I could unpak and install a good working demo version of PB
Now I try to unpak the licensed version but this seams impossible.

pi@raspberrypi:~ $ unzip PureBasic_Linux_ARM64_LTS_6.11_(q4ag37).tgz
bash: syntaxfout nabij onverwacht symbool '('

English translation:
bash: syntax error near unexpected symbol '('

Did also a test to unzip wit "tar" ... the same error (and also with prefix sudo ...).

Somebody an idea?
Another unzip utility?

[NicTheQuick]

First of all. This is not a zip file, but a tar gz file.
Also you need to escape special characters like '(' accordingly.

You can do it like this:

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tar -xf 'PureBasic_Linux_ARM64_LTS_6.11_(q4ag37).tgz'

So basically use single quotes to allow special characters that would be interpreted by bash otherwise.
"tar -xf" means "tar --extract --file <file>".

[NicTheQuick]

Oh, and this has nothing to do with Purebasic itself. You just seem to learn a bit more about Bash I guess.

[Marc56us]

Uses <tab> (multiple time if not match filname) to autocomplete filename. This also will escape '(' with '\('

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$ tar xvzf PureBasic <press tab>

PS. Filename of archive does not matter, You can rename it (without ())

[Fred]

I guess I will remove the () as it doesn't brings anything

[Rudy M]

I renamed the archif-file to: Purebasic.tgz

Thereafter the tip from Marc56us:

$ tar xvzf PureBasic <press tab>

Result: Perfect unpac in the Purebasic-map

(normailly here one does all the other install instructions)

Because I did already all the other install instructions I could immediately start up Purebasic.

Thanks to You all!!!
Rudy M

(Now I'm going to rename the map to: Purebasic-version xxx)