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Unzip provides decompression for classic zip formats. Includes supports for Unicode and encryption if appropriate USE flags have been selected.

Installation

USE flags

USE flags for app-arch/unzip unzipper for pkzip-compressed files

`bzip2`	Use the bzlib compression library
`natspec`	Use dev-libs/libnatspec to correctly decode non-ascii file names archived in Windows.
`unicode`	Add support for Unicode

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Emerge

root #emerge --ask app-arch/unzip

Removal

root #emerge --ask --unmerge app-arch/unzip

Configuration

Environment variables

The following environment variables are available:

UNZIP - Sets unzip to run with any option.
UNZIP_OPTS - For use in VMS systems. Does the same as UNZIP (see above).

See the unzip man page for more environment variable information.

Usage

Extracting all the compressed file in the current directory:

user $unzip temp.zip

Decompressing an archive without creating directories:

user $unzip -j temp.zip

Forcefully overwrite existing files when decompressing:

user $unzip -o temp.zip

Decompressing archive to another directory:

user $unzip temp.zip -d /tmp

See the content of a zip file without decompressing:

user $unzip -l temp.zip

Exclude certain file during the decompression:

user $unzip temp.zip -x bashscript.sh -d /tmp

List detailed information about the archive:

user $unzip -Z temp.zip

Converting text files when decompressing

user $unzip -a temp.zip

To test our test.zip, printing only a summary message indicating whether the archive is OK or not:

user $unzip -tq temp.zip

To test all zipfiles in the current directory, printing only the summaries:

user $unzip -tq '*.zip'

To extract all text source files only '.txt':

user $unzip temp.zip '*.txt'

To extract only newer versions of the files already in the current directory:

user $unzip -fo temp.zip

To extract newer versions of the files already in the current directory and to create any files not already there:

user $unzip -uo temp.zip

Extract a password protected zip file:

user $unzip -P <password> passwordprotected.zip

Invocation

user $unzip -h

UnZip 6.00 of 20 April 2009, by Info-ZIP.  Maintained by C. Spieler.  Send
bug reports using http://www.info-zip.org/zip-bug.html; see README for details.

Usage: unzip [-Z] [-opts[modifiers]] file[.zip] [list] [-x xlist] [-d exdir]
  Default action is to extract files in list, except those in xlist, to exdir;
  file[.zip] may be a wildcard.  -Z => ZipInfo mode ("unzip -Z" for usage).

  -p  extract files to pipe, no messages     -l  list files (short format)
  -f  freshen existing files, create none    -t  test compressed archive data
  -u  update files, create if necessary      -z  display archive comment only
  -v  list verbosely/show version info       -T  timestamp archive to latest
  -x  exclude files that follow (in xlist)   -d  extract files into exdir
modifiers:
  -n  never overwrite existing files         -q  quiet mode (-qq => quieter)
  -o  overwrite files WITHOUT prompting      -a  auto-convert any text files
  -j  junk paths (do not make directories)   -aa treat ALL files as text
  -U  use escapes for all non-ASCII Unicode  -UU ignore any Unicode fields
  -C  match filenames case-insensitively     -L  make (some) names lowercase
  -X  restore UID/GID info                   -V  retain VMS version numbers
  -K  keep setuid/setgid/tacky permissions   -M  pipe through "more" pager
See "unzip -hh" or unzip.txt for more help.  Examples:
  unzip data1 -x joe   => extract all files except joe from zipfile data1.zip
  unzip -p foo | more  => send contents of foo.zip via pipe into program more
  unzip -fo foo ReadMe => quietly replace existing ReadMe if archive file newer

Listing files

user $unzip -l /path/to/file.zip