terminal tool (linux) for repair corrupted zip files

Question

I've a corrupt zip file. I've tried to repair it with

zip -F file.zip

and

zip -FF file.zip

but was not successful. Is there another terminal tool under Linux for repairing?

Answer 1

DiskInternals ZIP Repair works perfectly under Wine it's saved me in the past.

Answer 2

I'm not aware of a program that will do a better job repairing the archive though.

You might try

unzip -vt file.zip

just to see if maybe you can extract some of the files safely, or figure out which files in the archive are corrupt.

Answer 3

try this

zip -FF Corrupted.zip --out New.zip

This will scan the corrupted zip archive and make a new one eliminating the errors.

As a result you will get a new zip file. Then simply run this command.

unzip New.zip

Hope this helps.

Answer 4

I have a 4.1GB zip that couldn't be opened/extracted. I already tried the Windows version of 7zip with Wine. It said "Unsupported Method" and all files it extracted were empty. Then installed "p7zip-full" and the same result... The zip is created on Mac OS X (Can't be opened there either).

~/largezip$ unzip file.zip 
Archive:  file.zip
  End-of-central-directory signature not found.  Either this file is not
  a zipfile, or it constitutes one disk of a multi-part archive.  In the
  latter case the central directory and zipfile comment will be found on
  the last disk(s) of this archive.
unzip:  cannot find zipfile directory in one of file.zip or
        file.zip.zip, and cannot find file.zip.ZIP, period.
~/largezip$ unzip -vt file.zip
Archive:  file.zip
  End-of-central-directory signature not found.  Either this file is not
  a zipfile, or it constitutes one disk of a multi-part archive.  In the
  latter case the central directory and zipfile comment will be found on
  the last disk(s) of this archive.
unzip:  cannot find zipfile directory in one of file.zip or
        file.zip.zip, and cannot find file.zip.ZIP, period.
~/largezip$ zip file.zip 
    zip warning: missing end signature--probably not a zip file (did you
    zip warning: remember to use binary mode when you transferred it?)
    zip warning: (if you are trying to read a damaged archive try -F)

zip error: Zip file structure invalid (file.zip)
~/largezip$ zip -F file.zip --out 2.zip
Fix archive (-F) - assume mostly intact archive
    zip warning: bad archive - missing end signature
    zip warning: (If downloaded, was binary mode used?  If not, the
    zip warning:  archive may be scrambled and not recoverable)
    zip warning: Can't use -F to fix (try -FF)

zip error: Zip file structure invalid (file.zip)
~/largezip$ zip -FF file.zip --out 2.zip
Fix archive (-FF) - salvage what can
    zip warning: Missing end (EOCDR) signature - either this archive
                     is not readable or the end is damaged
Is this a single-disk archive?  (y/n): y
  Assuming single-disk archive

After it had run I could extract some of the output:

~/largezip$ unzip 2.zip 
Archive:  2.zip
warning [2.zip]:  136245456 extra bytes at beginning or within zipfile
  (attempting to process anyway)
file #1:  bad zipfile offset (local header sig):  136245456
  (attempting to re-compensate)

after it extracted some of the archive (folder properties says "2010 items, totalling 3.7 GB") it returned

error:  zipfile read error

I am running 64bit Crunchbang Linux

cat /etc/debian_version
6.0.4

cat /proc/version
Linux version 2.6.32-5-amd64 (Debian 2.6.32-41squeeze2) (dannf@debian.org) (gcc version 4.3.5 (Debian 4.3.5-4) ) #1 SMP Thu Mar 22 17:26:33 UTC 2012

Any ideas how to get more data out of it?