ZIP is a compression and archive format that stores one or more files into a single file, usually with a .zip file extension. It originally supported a simple symmetric password encryption system: file contents are encrypted, but file names are not. It is known to be seriously flawed, and should ...
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I need help extracting this partially corrupt WinRAR archive
I downloaded a video that's 11 parts the other day. Today I tried to extract it but it tells me that part04 is corrupt. So I checked "keep broken files", but of course it only gave me the beginning of ...
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How can I control the order of files in a ZIP archive?
There are times when it is necessary for the files in a ZIP archive to be in a specific order (for example, I'm currently creating EPUBs, which require that the first entry in the ZIP be the mimetype ...
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Is there better compression than RAR? [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
Compressing with RAR vs ZIP
As many will know, the RAR format produces consistently better results than ZIP. I've used RAR happily for many years and it's really ...
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How does the CentOS/Linux zip utility handle files that are changed during compression?
Question says it all: I have a directory that I want to 'zip -rv' up, but the files are changing all of the time (postgres database base backup). Will this break zip, or will it continue with a ...
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How to extract 7z zip and have correct directory strucuture?
XXXhostXXX:temp XXXuserXXX$ ls -a dir1/
. .. a.txt b.txt
XXXhostXXX:temp XXXuserXXX$ pwd
/Users/XXXuserXXX/temp
XXXhostXXX:temp XXXuserXXX$ 7z a -t7z dir1 dir1
7-Zip [64] 9.20 Copyright (c) ...
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'No such interface supported' when attempting to compress file through 7zip commandline
When I run the 7zip commandline:
> echo foo | 7za a arc.7z -sifoo.txt
Everything works as expected, but if I try to do:
echo foo | 7za a arc.zip -sifoo.txt
I get the following:
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How to add password to zip file on SBS 2008?
I'm trying to add a password to a zip file on SBS 2008, but there is no "Add Password" in the File menu.
What can I do?
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Where does the process occur when zipping a file on a network mapped drive
I want to copy a number of large files that will compress well from a mapped drive to my local hard drive. Will zipping the files make the overall processing time shorter?
What I am thinking is, can ...
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Change the “temp” folder used when zipping/archiving files?
I'm trying to zip up a huge file, but it fails since my C:\ drive doesn't have enough space. How do change it to use another drive?
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Can we use a cert to package a .zip file to let only people with cert can open the zip?
Except from using password, can I use a digital cert to assign for encoding the password to prevent people open the zip file? Thanks.
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Hop skip zip , Changing multiple Zip folders into real folders in Windows 7
Windows has the built in Zip capability, so I can hop right into a zip like it was a folder. That does not do a lot of good when you cannot work with the files in the zip.
When downloading lots of ...
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Trouble handling zip files?
I'm trying to send a zip file to someone, but I'm having a lot more trouble with it than I should. I tried uploading it to 4shared, mediafire, and megaupload, but all uploads failed multiple times. ...
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Create multiple zip files that are not dependent on each other?
I want to compress a folder into multiple zip files of 50MB each but don't want them to be dependent on each other. When I use Winzip and use the split feature it creates one zip file and the others ...
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View the contents of Jars files? [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
Can you configure Windows to open JAR files like ZIP files without a 3rd party tool?
How i can view the contents of Jar files and enter to it like Zip files on windows 7 ...
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Tool to mount a zip/rar/* archive as a Win drive and be able to read/write as a normal device?
I'm looking for some tool that, given a zip/rar/tar/* archive file, mounts it as a new Windows drive. Some tools are WinMount or WinArchive, but I need one that allows me to write/create/delete files ...
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Shell zip with unattended password
I have a script that runs some automatic zip generation using shell zip. The request is to add automatic encryption with password. From what I understand, the option -e is the right one, but it asks ...
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Which archiving method is better for compressing text files on Linux?
In my application I need do compress of logs that are text files.
Seems that bzip2 and gzip have the same compression ratio.
Is that correct?
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Extracting .rar files in Windows with current datetime
One thing I like about Windows zip files is that the extracted files automatically have the current time (as opposed to the original time). I have yet to find a way to apply the same for extracted ...
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Unzip file with underscore in linux?
I'm trying to unzip a file in redhat but I keep getting this when I run unzip filename.zip
heckdir error: cannot create file_name
unable to process file_name/bin/.
I'm guessing ...
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What UnRar utilities are available for Mac OS X?
I have been using UnRarX ( http://www.unrarx.com/ ) and it's free and works well, but often times I will download a rar file in the browser and click on it in the recent downloads lists which will ...
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How to recursively `zip` all files of a certain type in a directory?
I want to use the zip command to create a .ZIP of a folder but only include .txt files.
Subdirectory structure should be preserved!
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7ZIP - Command Line Compression | Can Never Keep it Simple
I've been Googleing for a few hours on how to just compress a file inside a directory and I can't find anything. I found how to just compress a folder in general. Now I wish to know how I can compress ...
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How do I zip contents of a directory without including the directory itself? [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
Create an archive from a directory without the directory name being added to the archive
I would like to zip all content and folders from a folder to a ZIP file.
I have ...
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How to overwrite existing zip file instead of updating it in Info-Zip?
To obtain a fresh zip file just like as tar does, do I have to perform rm foo.zip before executing zip?
$ mkdir foo; touch foo/bar
$ zip -r foo.zip foo
adding: foo/ (stored 0%)
adding: foo/bar ...
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What kind of window's batch file allows zipping of ftp files?
What commands should I use to transfer a file via FTP and then compress the files in a backup directory with a filename containing the date/time for reference?
I'd prefer to use batch scripting.
The ...
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installer download vs zipped download
I was wondering when I have the option to download the installer vs the zipped package, which should I choose? What are the advantages of each decision?
Taking Notepad++ as an example, what's the ...
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How to unzip zip archives that have more than 260 symbols in their name?
I have a big zip file (approximately 650 MB) that I want to unzip. I already shortened the name of the zip file to just 1 letter and stored it directly on the C: folder. So I can´t shorten the path ...
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Zip all files in a directory, but don't include the top directory in the archive
Can't quite figure out how to do this right. I have a folder with a website in /var/www
I want to create a zip file with all of it, which when I decompress it does not include the top directory. In ...
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How to zip files in XP's command line without additional tools/downloads
After prowling google, and checking an old thread in ServerFault, I thought I would try here. Without any additional downloads, on a fresh install of XP SP3, how can I run a script to extract AND zip ...
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How to extract ZIP from self-extracting exe?
Well, the subject says it all. I have an exe that is an SFX, and I want to extract the ZIP from the SFX. How can I do that?
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Why don't software publishers sign software when distributed as a ZIP file? [closed]
Consider a software publisher that provides EXE installers for their software and that those installers contain an embedded signature which allows you to verify that the file you downloaded is the ...
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ZIP file with metadata?
Is there any standard way to store metadata (e.g. timestamps) inside ZIP files, along with the files?
What program would I need to use in order to do this?
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FTP Put a zip file that contains text files in Linux
I am transferring a file from a linux pc going to a windows ftp server using "ftp put". My file is a zip file that includes .txt files inside it.
Here is what's happening when I transfered this file ...
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Has zip any advantages over bz2? [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
How can I evaluate the best choice of archive format for compressing files?
I've just downloaded phpBB3 and saw they offer a bz2 (1.51 MB) and a zip (2.35 MB) download. ...
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Will Windows viruses infect RAR or ZIP files?
I heard from some techie person that .rar and .zip files never get infected by viruses.
Is this true? If yes, then why such behavior?
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How to do “legacy” ZIP compression with 7zip?
We have an old application that requires zip files to be "legacy" format. I would really love to get rid of the adware ridden WinZip and use 7zip. However, I don't know which compression options and ...
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How do I insert a folder into a ZIP file?
I'm a newbie on Linux and had to do something like this with the zip command:
My folder structure inside a zip file abc.zip is:
-- currentdir
-- onestepdeep
-- abc.zip
-- folder1
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Is it possible to password protect a zip file created by Windows itself (without external tools?)
I normally use a tool like WinZip, 7Zip, or WinRAR to create zip files but I'm on a Windows 7 system that doesn't have these tools installed (and I can't install new apps).
Outside of 3rd party tools ...
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Linux: zip greater than 4Gb
I'm getting an error when I try and zip a large file on Linux because it is too large for zip to deal with. Anyone know what commands I can use to get around this?
This is the error I'm getting:
zip ...
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How can I create a .zip file for each folder within another folder?
Under the folder images\, I have the following folders:
Usa\
Italy\
Japan\
etc..
I want a script that creates a .zip for each of these folders, so I have usa.zip , italy.zip, japan.zip.
How can ...
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Does the RAR compression algorithm compress better than the ZIP compression algorithm?
I took 3 test files and ZIPped them. With the 3 test files again I RARred them. Each .RAR archive is smaller than the corresponding .ZIP archive.
Does the RAR compression algorithm give a better ...
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Why would WinRAR and WinZIP create a compressed file of the same size if they use different methods to compress data? [closed]
I compressed a test file with both WinRAR and WinZIP. To my surprise, the resulting files were the exact same size, down to the byte.
Why did this happen?
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Unix zip directory but excluded specific subdirectories (and everything within them)
I'm trying to zip a directory (on Unix via SSH) but I need to exclude a couple of subdirectories (and all files and directories within them).
So far I have this:
zip -r myarchive.zip dir1 -x ...
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Compress big files with 7-zip, and uncompress with WIndows XP WITHOUT 7-zip
I'm using the very latest release of 7-zip to compress some files from the command line
on my Windows XP machine.
All the small archives work fine... but the bigger ones... always give "invalid or ...
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How do I convert my existing zip files to 7z with 7-zip comand line?
I'd like to convert a couple thousand zip files to 7z, with maximum compression and multithreading enabled.
Also in another place. Like c:\temp\file.zip to f:\converted\file.7z
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The compression cannot be performed because the path to the file or directory 'Application Data' is too long
In Windows 7, whenever I tried to compress the USER directory into a .zip file I experienced this error and cannot continue:
The compression cannot be performed because the path to the file or
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How do I create seperate zip files for each selecterd file/dir in 7zip?
This is the internal zip packer from Total Commander:
However I want to use my 7zip packer. When I selecet 5 files, I get 5 seperate .zip archives for each selected file. How do I do that in 7zip?
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How can I evaluate the best choice of archive format for compressing files?
In general, I've observed the following:
Linux-y files or tools use bzip2 or gzip for distributing archives
Windows-y files or tools use ZIP for distributing archives
Many people use 7-Zip for ...
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versatile unzip utility
Is there a compression utility that will allow extracting a file while skipping the first (container) directory.
My purpose is to create an automated install script that will download a specific ...
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Best archive format & tool for large amounts of data (50gb+)
I only realised this afternoon that the ZIP format has a limit of what appears to be around 20gb. I am trying to automate an archive process (using Automate) to zip/rar/whatever a collection of ...
