Unzip Your iNaturalist Observations On A Ubuntu System

BASH
Volunteer
iNaturalist
Data
Citizen Science
Linux
Ubuntu
Author

Galen Seilis

Published

March 16, 2022

Note

This post was migrated from my iNaturalist journal to my Jekyll blog on 2023-02-26. It was then migrated to my Quarto blog on 2024-07-27.

Suppose - you have just downloaded an export of iNaturalist data, - the data file is a zipped comma-separated value(CSV) text file, - and you are running a Ubuntu system.

Begin by opening up a BASH environment.

Go to the path where the file was downloaded to:

cd /path/to/folder

Then run the unzip command:

unzip observations-<ID>.csv.zip

You should find that you now have the uncompressed CSV file. You can check with:

ls observations-<ID>.csv