Windows command line ZIP extraction with checksum or similar?

Question

What I need to do, at the command line, is:

1. Extract the contents of a a ZIP archive.
2. Change an arbitrary number of the extracted files.
3. Repeat step 1, but because it is a huge archive, only extract the archived copies of the files changed in step 2 which is much faster.

Ideally the extraction in step 3 would do something like a checksum on the files on disk and only extract those where the file in the archive has a different checksum. Or maybe compare the date changed stamp on the disk file.

At the minute I use pkzipc.exe which is the command-line version of PkZip. I can't see a way to do it with this though. You can extract files from the archive that are newer than the disk files, but what I want is the opposite of that in a sense.

Answer 1

Hmm, maybe I'm misunderstanding what you're trying to do, but why don't you just keep a second copy of the files that you're going to change (in step 2)?

Is there any particular reason you need to re-extract?

7-Zip has a command-line version that I'd suggest looking at regardless, I prefer it over all the other windows archiving tools I've used.

Answer 2

plenty useful zip tools and tips on this web site:

Using zip and unzip on the windows command line

download zip.exe and unzip.exe from this website and copy the 2 files into your windows directory, run zip or unzip (without parameters) from the command prompt to see all options.

Answer 3

I've been looking for a program that would use the CRC32 in the zip file to know if a file had changed, but if all you care for is a date/time stamp and size, TreeComp could work for you.