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Explode

Updated: 10/04/2017 by Computer Hope
Illustrated explosion with word BAM!

Explode may refer to any of the following:

1. Alternatively referred to as decompress, uncompress, or unpack, explode is taking a compressed file and restoring it back to its original form.

Related information

  • How to extract or decompress a compressed file.

2. Linux command, see the uncompress command page for additional information about this command.

Compress, Compression utility, Extract, Software terms, Unzip

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