How do I unzip a file which is bigger then 4GB?

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Limitation: p7zip is a third party application not provided or distributed by Red Hat.

If the original file(s) which is bigger then 4GB then unzip will not be able to unzip those file(s) even though they are compressed to 2GB.

The usual error that will be encountered is as follow:

unzip EXPTCFK2.zip
Archive:  EXPTCFK2.zip
   skipping: EXPTCFK2.DMP ...

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