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- FUNZIP(1) USER COMMANDS FUNZIP(1)
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- NAME
- funzip - filter for extracting from a ZIP archive in a pipe
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- SYNOPSIS
- [...] | funzip [-password] | [...]
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- funzip [-password] input.zip | [...] funzip [-password]
- input.gz | [...]
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- ARGUMENTS
- [-password]
- Optional password to be used if ZIP archive is
- encrypted. Decryption may not be supported at some
- sites. See DESCRIPTION for more details.
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- DESCRIPTION
- funzip acts as a filter; that is, it assumes that a ZIP
- archive (or a gzip'd(1) file) is being piped into standard
- input, and it extracts the first member from the archive to
- stdout. If there is an argument, then the input comes from
- the specified file instead of from stdin. A password for
- encrypted zip files can be specified on the command line
- (preceding the file name, if any) by prefixing the password
- with a dash. Note that this constitutes a security risk on
- many systems; currently running processes are often visible
- via simple commands (e.g., ps(1) under Unix), and command-
- line histories can be read. If the first entry of the zip
- file is encrypted and no password is specified on the com-
- mand line, then the user is prompted for a password and the
- password is not echoed on the console.
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- Given the limitation on single-member extraction, funzip is
- most useful in conjunction with a secondary archiver program
- such as tar(1). The following section includes an example
- illustrating this usage in the case of disk backups to tape.
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- EXAMPLES
- To use funzip to extract the first member file of the
- archive test.zip and to pipe it into more(1):
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- funzip test.zip | more
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- To use funzip to test the first member file of test.zip (any
- errors will be reported on standard error):
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- funzip test.zip > /dev/null
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- To use zip and funzip in place of compress(1) and zcat(1)
- (or gzip(1L) and gzcat(1L)) for tape backups:
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- tar cf - . | zip -7 | dd of=/dev/nrst0 obs=8k
- dd if=/dev/nrst0 ibs=8k | funzip | tar xf -
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- Info-ZIP Last change: 30 Apr 96 (v3.9) 1
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- FUNZIP(1) USER COMMANDS FUNZIP(1)
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- (where, for example, nrst0 is a SCSI tape drive).
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- BUGS
- When piping an encrypted file into more and allowing funzip
- to prompt for password, the terminal may sometimes be reset
- to a non-echo mode. This is apparently due to a race condi-
- tion between the two programs; funzip changes the terminal
- mode to non-echo before more reads its state, and more then
- ``restores'' the terminal to this mode before exiting. To
- recover, run funzip on the same file but redirect to
- /dev/null rather than piping into more; after prompting
- again for the password, funzip will reset the terminal prop-
- erly.
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- There is presently no way to extract any member but the
- first from a ZIP archive. This would be useful in the case
- where a ZIP archive is included within another archive. In
- the case where the first member is a directory, funzip sim-
- ply creates the directory and exits.
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- The functionality of funzip should be incorporated into
- unzip itself (future release).
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- SEE ALSO
- gzip(1L), unzip(1L), unzipsfx(1L), zip(1L), zipcloak(1L),
- zipinfo(1L), zipnote(1L), zipsplit(1L)
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- AUTHOR
- Mark Adler (Info-ZIP)
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- Info-ZIP Last change: 30 Apr 96 (v3.9) 2
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