Compression and archive format that stores one or more files into a single file, usually with a .zip file extension.
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How do I configure Google Chrome to open zip files in file-roller instead of Nautilus?
When I download a .zip file using Google Chrome on Linux, upon clicking it the .zip file opens my Downloads folder in Nautilus, not the .zip file in file-roller. Ironically, Google is mum on the ...
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How can I extract a password-protected pdf from an unprotected zip file?
I have a password protected pdf inside an unprotected zip file. I forgot the password of the pdf. Now I can't extract the pdf from the zip file.
How can I extract my pdf file?
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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 extract data from a partially corrupt multi-part rar 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 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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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 restore Windows default Zip file functionality?
I recently lost the default file association for Zip files in Windows Vista (I think it happened when I uninstalled WinAce, but I can't be completely sure). How can I restore this association back to ...
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Windows command line ZIP extraction with checksum or similar?
What I need to do, at the command line, is:
Extract the contents of a a ZIP archive.
Change an arbitrary number of the extracted files.
Repeat step 1, but because it is a huge archive, only extract ...
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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 do I unzip a .zip file on a Chromebook
I downloaded a zip file on my Chromebook. I see the file when I got to "chrome://files".
How do I unzip it? Clicking on it merely lets me view its contents.
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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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Windows folder has readonly attribute that cannot be removed
I have a zip file containing Eclipse workspace. When I unzip it all the extracted folders have read only attribute set to true. When I uncheck "read only" in properties dialog and click apply the ...
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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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GUI zip utility for Mac OS X that supports previewing
I always miss 7-zip when I'm working on my Mac. Does anyone know of a good GUI utility that allows me to preview zip file contents and do partial extracts?
I've seen the Unarchiver and various 7-zip ...
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How can I bulk rename files in a RAR or ZIP archive on the mac?
I have a set of archive files -- both zip and rar formats -- inside of which I need to rename some files. Specifically, I want to do something like this:
for each archive file in a directory
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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Can you zip a file from the command prompt using ONLY Windows' built-in capability to zip files?
I have a batch file that outputs a text file. I thought it would be nice if I could zip it up too.
This will be used in an uncontrolled environment, so I can't make assumptions about the presence of ...
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How can I test all zip files in a folder to verify if they are corrupted or not?
There was a utility a long time ago called CFAtest that was doing this quite nicely, but it has disappeared.
Basically, I am looking for a similar tool (preferably graphical) that will traverse a ...
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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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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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How can I achieve the best, standard ZIP compression?
I don't care how long it takes to compress, all I want to achieve is two things:
The absolute best possible compression ratio
Compatibility with standard readers, such as Windows and WinZip
So ...
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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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Can you configure Windows to open JAR files like ZIP files without a 3rd party tool?
I'd like to be able to examine the contents of a JAR file without having to install Winzip or some other tool and without having to rename the file. Windows Explorer can open ZIP files just fine; is ...
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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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Windows zip error: Windows cannot complete the extraction. The destination file could not be created
I have a strange error in Windows 7 when I want to execute/open a file inside ZIP archive.
I have two files:
File1.dwg
File2.dwg
The archive is not corrupted ( I checked with 7zip utility )
...
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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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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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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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Read the contents of a zipped file without extraction?
How can I see the contents of a particular file in an archive without extracting the .zip it is contained within? I'm using the Linux command line.
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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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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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Equivalent to tar's “--strip-components=1” in unzip?
I have a script that extracts a tar.gz-file to a speificed subdirectory mysubfolder:
mkdir mysubfolder; tar --extract --file=sourcefile.tar.gz --strip-components=1 --directory=mysubfolder;
Is there ...
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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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How can i recover a zip password using CUDA (GPU)?
How can i recover a zip password on linux using CUDA (GPU).
For the past two days i tried using "fcrackzip" but it's too slow
Few months back i saw some application that can use GPU / CUDA and get ...
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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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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 crack a password protected zip file.
I recently downloaded a piece of software that came in a .ZIP archive, but the .EXE software inside of the archive had a password on it. The website that I would have gotten the password from closed ...
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powershell cmd script of out-zip.ps1
i have found this powershell script online and i would like to run this from a batchfile. Can anyone give me the correct syntax for this script.
And if possible make it possible to input multiple ...
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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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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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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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On Linux/Unix, does .tar.gz versus .zip matter?
Cross-platform programs are sometimes distributed as .tar.gz for the Unix version and .zip for the Windows version. This makes sense when the contents of each must be different.
If, however, the ...
