Compression and archive format that stores one or more files into a single file, usually with a .zip file extension.
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Cron Job in Linux
I am newbie just have a doubt,
I have a Outerl.sh to be executed on every zip file arrival in FTP and get the *.sh file inside the zip file and execute that (.sh) file which present inside the zip ...
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How to make index of all files in directory, including subdirectiories and contents of ZIP files?
I need to make list of all files and folders in directory and its subdirectories, including contents of ZIP files.
Is there any program that can create nice list of contents?
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Is it possible to recursively list zip file contents with 7 zip without extracting
Similar to this question I have a very large zip file which contains other zip files, folders, and files. I want to use 7-zip to extract a list of file names from it, recursing into subfolders and zip ...
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Compressed (Zipped) Folders no longer extract properly
I actually just finished up cleaning a virus from my computer (took me in total like 20 minutes, no big deal), but I'm almost sure this is what caused the problem. Now, whenever I download a zipfile I ...
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Automatically extracting text files via commandline and combining them into a single text file
In-Depth Explanation of Problem:
I'm trying to automate a process on my computer and having some difficulty. Each day, I'm emailed a zip file that contains a txt file. I have a script in place that ...
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How to perform zipped mirroring on Windows?
My source is a directory hierarchy. I need to auto-copy the files in the source to a destination directory, but to have each file individually zipped inside the destination sub-directories. ...
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powershell create zip from log files
How can I move log files to zip archives with System.IO.Compression.FileSystem in PowerShell?
I have more folders with log files per application:
app1logfolder
|-app1_20130507.log
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How to tar/zip a parent directory exculding a child direcory
I want tar a direcory which contains a number of child directories. But here my requirement is to tar the entire parent direcory excuding one child directory.
Is there any command or procedure for ...
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In linux how do I zip a file to a webdav remote directory? [closed]
Right now I am using Linux and want to create a zip file of some local folder on my Mac partition (Folder is too big for the linux partition) and make the zip file show up on my webdav. How do I ...
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Extracting the raw data of a multi-part zip file as-is (without all the parts)
I have a 12 multi-part compressed archive of 5 files. Meaning originally there were 5 files, they were put into an archive of 12 parts. Of the 5 files, 3 are binary, 2 are text.
Is it possible to ...
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virtual filesystems appear to be limited on win32 build of Midnight Commander
I installed Midnight Commander 4.8.7 on my windows machine at work.
2 of the features that I would love to use are the virtual filesystems for zip files and ssh.
But the only virtual filesystem that ...
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how to “preserve internal directory structure” when unzipping on windows?
I'm tring to build boost, in instructions I've read
When you extract the library from its zip file, you must preserve its internal directory structure (for example by using the -d option when ...
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“extra bytes at beginning or within zipfile,” won't open file
I have an 8.3 gig zip containing tons of telescope observation data, but I can't extract no matter what I try. I've tried Archive Manager, unzip, and tried this guy's fix: ...
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Exclude files in a for loop
I want to delete the /lib directory inside apk files. I managed to do this with:
for DIR in ~/ABC ~/ABD
do
cd $DIR
for APK in *
do
if test -f "$APK"
then
zip -d $APK ...
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Comparing zip files
We need to compare the contents in each of 2 .zip files we have.
Each .zip file has of different file extensions. Each .zip file also contains another .zip file and a couple of subdirectories.
We ...
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Can a Zip File Become Damaged from Repeated Unzipping?
I use a mac and have a zip file that contains a base set of files that I use over and over. Every time I need the set of files for a new project, I simply unzip the zip file and they are ready for ...
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osx: selectively zip large number of files: -@ option OK?
I need to make a zip file archiving ~100k files from a directory containing ~500k files. I get "argument list too long" errors when I try the obvious commands:
zip archive.zip *pattern*.txt ...
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How can I encrypt a read-only adobe acrobat file?
My brokerage kindly decided to mark my account statement as read-only for my benefit. But, now when I open the statement in Acrobat Pro X in Windows 7, the Encrypt option is grayed out. How can I make ...
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repeat command until process start or timeout unix
Is there anyway to check the number of file in a directory, if the number of files is correct, say 5 files, zip the files with zip -r total.zip. If the number of files is wrong, wait 3 seconds, and ...
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What is the equivalent unix command to a Mac OSX “Compress” menu action?
When I right-click a file in Mac OSX and select "Compress 'File Name'", what is the equivalent bash or terminal command to get the same result?
Is it just gzip -9 /path/to/filename?
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unix command zip everything except file ending with _fpartxx
I was wondering, if I have a folder structure like this:
/var/www/testing/file1.iso_fpart0
/var/www/testing/file1.iso_fpart1
/var/www/testing/file1.iso_fpart2
/var/www/testing/file1.iso
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Unable to unzip a password-protected zip file that was sent with a different extension [closed]
I received a zip file via email that was password protected. However, my email system was blocking the zip file type, so the sender changed the extension to something else. I saved the file and ...
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Does a version of “zipcmp” exist for Oracle Enterprise Linux? [closed]
We are interested in comparing 2 zip files or jar files with a utility.
We read there's a zipcmp but it looks like it is distributed-focused, meaning only available on a certain Linux distribution.
We ...
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How to extract a set of zip files from a zip file
Is there a command to extract a set of zip files within another zip file and not extracting all of it ?
eg:
A.zip has (B.zip, C.zip, c_directory, d.txt)
How can extract B.zip and C.zip without ...
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What is the difference between .rar and .zip? [duplicate]
To me it seems that these two file types works exact the same way. Why would people use .rar files (especially for illegal downloads) when .zip is so much more easier to handle? You don't need ...
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shell scripting - How to zip contents inside a folder without the folder itself?
I use this current command that archives the folder "folder-root" and all it's content to a file named "site.zip":
zip -r site.zip folder-root/*
Problem is - I want to zip the contents of the ...
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How to zip and unzip files on mac OS without losing creation date and time?
On a Mac, When I zip and unzip files using finder or using zip/ditto from command line, I lose the creation date of the files/folders and the creation date is automatically set same as the ...
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I need to see what's inside the zip file before unzipping. How can I do it? [duplicate]
All the unzipping utilities I tried on the mac simply unzip the file. What I would like is a 7zip or WinZip style app that let's you actually see what's inside the file.
Does something like that ...
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Split a folder of files into multiple zip files based on size or # of files
My problem is that the file uploader I'm working with will only allow a zip file with a size of 10mb or less. Unfortunately, I have thousands of files that need to be processed and I do this by ...
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How to zip multiple folders in 7zip?
I have a folder, lets say, MAIN. Inside this folder, there are many folders(say f1,f2,f2...) which has subfolders and files in them. Now I need to zip these folders(f1,f2,f3...) and their contents ...
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How do I zip a folder with 7-zip but not subfolders of that folder?
For instance, if I wanted to zip everything in My Documents, but not subfolders in My Documents, and I also did not know the name of each subfolder.
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How would Apache or Compressed HTTP react to a zip bomb?
inspired by Compress a 1GB file into 200_MB? and the related comments:
Many webservers today use a zipped HTTP Version (Gzip afaik).
How would Apache or any other server react to a zip bomb? Since ...
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Extracting a Zip File with Japanese Filenames?
I'm trying to extract files from a zip file on Windows 7. The filenames are in Japanese, but they just look like éñé▀é─é±é─ü[é╓é┐éσèGòùé▄é╟é⌐üÖâ}âMâJâZâbâg20110423. They include a 3D model file and ...
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Windows 7 extract and compress zip has been compromised by NCH's Express Zip program. How to fix?
I installed NCH's Express Zip, and now I can no longer use Windows 7's way of extracting and compressing. I would like to get rid of the NCH program and get back the original functionality of windows ...
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How to “unextract” a zip file?
I extracted a zip file into a non-empty folder. The zip file has lots of files and a deep hierarchy, that merged with the existing tree of the target directory. How can I remove the files and ...
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Remove known password from zip archive without extracting
is it possible to remove a known password from a ZIP archive without extracting the actual archive?
I have some heavily compressed archives and want to avoid having to extract and rezip each of those ...
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Windows 7 Explorer Preview Pane for zip files
I was wondering if there is a possibility to add .zip file to the explorer preview pane (Windows 7 64 Bit). For example if a folder contains a .zip file i would like to see the content of the .zip ...
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Large zip files content is corrupted when unziped using windows explore
We have a large zip file (25GB) containing mosty pdfs and png files. (about 150000 files)
When we unzip the file using windows explore some of the content is corrupted. Some png files shows content ...
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A better way to extract lots of files from zip archive in bash
I have a zip archive with lots of files and a plaintext file with list of files (~10000 items), that I need to extract from that archive using bash.
What is the best way to perform that operation?
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jzip installed chrome opening www.searchnu.com/102
I am in pain trying to figure out how to remove www.searchnu.com/102 from chrome after installing jzip on my windows 7.
How can I do that? Is this a virus? I ran a scan and it didn't return anything
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Uncompressing a file despite CRC errors
I have downloaded a multipart ZIP archive. It contains a video file.
Unfortunately, IZarc reports a CRC check fail when extracting the archive. Downloading the archive again is a long task, since I ...
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Font file association has been changed? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to restore Windows default Zip file functionality?
I seem to be having a bit of a problem. Usually I download free fonts, because it's good to have different ones ...
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zip.exe found in C:\Windows
I was looking at my C:\Windows folder on Windows 7 today and noticed a really old version of zip.exe
Copyright (C) 1990-1999 Info-ZIP
Type 'zip "-L"' for software license.
Zip 2.3 (November 29th ...
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Extracting a zip file via VBScript running as a service
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OS: Windows 7
UAC: Disabled
What: I am running a VBScript that extracts a zip file, and the vbscript is kicked off by Jenkins service. I need to use the VBScript, and I can not use external ...
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Specific password recovery
I have a zip folder which I saved and password protected. I forgot the password but I know that the password is something like : BlueMonday!2012 or bluemonday2012
I know I can brute force the file ...
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Zip, tar: is there a file table
Is there a file table, or inode structure (like in filesystems) of a zip or tar file?
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Why should I prefer 7zip over WinZip in Windows environment? [closed]
I know Winzip is not free and 7-zip is free . Other than this is there any reason why I should use 7ZIP over Winzip for compression ? I am using Windows 7 .
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File name: 'winmail.dat' Virus name: 'ExceedinglyInfected'
Everytime I send a zip file off via my corporate account the recipient gets this message back:
FILE DELETED
The original contents of this file have been replaced with this message because of its ...
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Fix encoding of German umlauts in directories and filenames (ü = u╠ê and so on)
I have many zip-files where there are encoding errors for the German umlauts (äüöÄÜÖß). They show up in both the filename.zip as well as in the included directories and files like this:
Fünf = ...
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Zip multiple excludes
I presently have a small script that runs a zip command that archives CSV folders in a directory. I have it excluding .zips that are already in the directory. I would now also like for it to exclude ...
