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UNZIP(1L)              LOCAL USER COMMANDS              UNZIP(1L)

NAME
     unzip - list, test and extract compressed  files  in  a  ZIP
     archive

SYNOPSIS
     unzip [-Z] [-cflptuvz[ajnoqsUV$]]  file[.zip]  [file(s) ...]
     [-x xfile(s) ...] [-d exdir]

DESCRIPTION
     unzip will list, test, or extract files from a ZIP  archive,
     commonly  found  on  MS-DOS  systems.   The default behavior
     (with no options) is to extract into the  current  directory
     (and  subdirectories  below it) all files from the specified
     ZIP archive.  A  companion  program,  zip(1L),  creates  ZIP
     archives;  both  programs are compatible with PKWARE's PKZIP
     and PKUNZIP for MS-DOS.

ARGUMENTS
     file[.zip]
          Path of the ZIP archive(s).  If the file  specification
          is  a  wildcard,  each matching file is processed in an
          order determined by the operating system (or file  sys-
          tem).   Only  the  filename can be a wildcard; the path
          itself cannot.  Wildcard  expressions  are  similar  to
          Unix egrep(1) (regular) expressions and may contain:

          *    matches a sequence of 0 or more characters

          ?    matches exactly 1 character

          [...]
               matches any  single  character  found  inside  the
               brackets;  ranges  are  specified  by  a beginning
               character, a hyphen, and an ending character.   If
               an  exclamation point or a caret (`!' or `^') fol-
               lows the left bracket, then the range  of  charac-
               ters within the brackets is complemented (that is,
               anything except the characters inside the brackets
               is considered a match).

          (Be sure to quote any character which  might  otherwise
          be  interpreted  or  modified  by the operating system,
          particularly under Unix and VMS.)  If  no  matches  are
          found,  the  specification  is  assumed to be a literal
          filename; and if that also fails, the  suffix  .zip  is
          appended.  Note that self-extracting ZIP files are sup-
          ported; just specify the .exe suffix  (if  any)  expli-
          citly.

     [file(s)]
          An optional list of archive members  to  be  processed.
          Regular  expressions  (wildcards)  may be used to match
          multiple members; see above.  Again, be sure  to  quote
          expressions  that  would otherwise be expanded or modi-
          fied by the operating system.

     [-x xfile(s)]
          An optional list of archive members to be excluded from
          processing.   Since wildcard characters match directory
          separators (`/'), this option may be  used  to  exclude
          any  files  which  are in subdirectories.  For example,
          ``unzip foo *.[ch] -x */*'' would extract all C  source
          files  in the main directory, but none in any subdirec-
          tories.  Without the -x option, all C source  files  in
          all directories within the zipfile would be extracted.

     [-d exdir]
          An optional directory to which to  extract  files.   By
          default,  all files and subdirectories are recreated in
          the current directory; the -d option allows  extraction
          in an arbitrary directory (always assuming one has per-
          mission to write to the directory).  This  option  need
          not  appear  at the end of the command line; it is also
          accepted immediately after the  zipfile  specification,
          or between the file(s) and the -x option.

OPTIONS
     -Z   zipinfo(1) mode.  If the first option  on  the  command
          line  is  -Z,  the  remaining  options  are taken to be
          zipinfo(1) options.  See the  appropriate  manual  page
          for a description of these options.

     -c   extract files to stdout/screen (``CRT'').  This  option
          is  similar  to  the  -p option except that the name of
          each file is printed as it is extracted, the -a  option
          is  allowed,  and  ASCII-EBCDIC conversion is automati-
          cally performed if appropriate.

     -f   freshen existing files, i.e., extract only those  files
          which  already  exist  on disk and which are newer than
          the disk  copies.   By  default  unzip  queries  before
          overwriting,  but the -o option may be used to suppress
          the queries.

     -l   list  archive  files   (short   format).    The   name,
          uncompressed  file  size and modification date and time
          of each specified file is printed,  along  with  totals
          for all files specified.  If a file was archived from a
          single-case file system (for example,  the  MS-DOS  FAT
          file  system)  and  the  -U  option  was not given, the
          filename is converted to lowercase and is prefixed with
          a  caret  (^).   In  addition,  the archive comment and
          individual file comments (if any) are displayed.

     -p   extract files to pipe (stdout).  Nothing but  the  file
          data  is  sent  to  stdout,  and  the  files are always
          extracted in binary format, just as they are stored (no
          conversions).

     -t   test archive files.  This option extracts  each  speci-
          fied file in memory and compares the CRC (cyclic redun-
          dancy check, an enhanced checksum) of the expanded file
          with the original file's stored CRC value.

     -u   update existing files and create new  ones  if  needed.
          This  option  performs  the  same  function  as  the -f
          option, extracting (with query) files which  are  newer
          than  those with the same name on disk, and in addition
          it extracts those files which do not already  exist  on
          disk.

     -v   list archive files (verbose format).   In  addition  to
          the information given by the -l option, the compression
          method, compressed size, compression ratio  and  32-bit
          CRC is listed.

     -z   display only the archive comment.

MODIFIERS
     -a   convert text files.  Ordinarily all files are extracted
          exactly  as they are stored (as ``binary'' files).  The
          -a option causes files identified by zip as text  files
          (those  with  the `t' label in zipinfo listings, rather
          than `b') to be automatically extracted as  such,  con-
          verting  line  endings,  end-of-file characters and the
          character set itself as necessary.  (For example,  Unix
          files  use  line  feeds (LFs) for end-of-line (EOL) and
          have no end-of-file (EOF) marker; Macintoshes use  car-
          riage  returns  (CRs)  for  EOLs; and most PC operating
          systems use CR+LF for EOLs and control-Z for  EOF.   In
          addition, IBM mainframes and the Michigan Terminal Sys-
          tem use EBCDIC rather than the more common ASCII  char-
          acter  set,  and  NT supports Unicode.) Note that zip's
          identification of text files is by  no  means  perfect;
          some  ``text''  files  may  actually be binary and vice
          versa.    unzip   therefore   prints   ``[text]''    or
          ``[binary]''  as  a  visual  check  for  each  file  it
          extracts when using the  -a  option.   The  -aa  option
          forces all files to be extracted as text, regardless of
          the supposed file type.

     -j   junk paths.  The archive's directory structure  is  not
          recreated;  all  files  are deposited in the extraction
          directory (by default, the current one).

     -n   never overwrite existing  files.   If  a  file  already
          exists,  skip  the  extraction  of  that  file  without
          prompting.  By default unzip queries before  extracting
          any  file  which already exists; the user may choose to
          overwrite only the current file, overwrite  all  files,
          skip extraction of the current file, skip extraction of
          all existing files, or rename the current file.

     -o   overwrite existing files without prompting.  This is  a
          dangerous  option,  so  use it with care.  (It is often
          used with -f, however.)

     -q   perform operations quietly (-qq = even quieter).  Ordi-
          narily  unzip  prints  the  names  of  the  files  it's
          extracting or testing, the extraction methods, any file
          or zipfile comments which may be stored in the archive,
          and possibly a summary when finished with each archive.
          The  -q[q] options suppress the printing of some or all
          of these messages.

     -s   [OS/2, NT,  MS-DOS]  convert  spaces  in  filenames  to
          underscores.   Since  all  PC  operating  systems allow
          spaces  in  filenames,  unzip   by   default   extracts
          filenames  with  spaces intact (e.g., ``EA DATA. SF'').
          This can be awkward, however, since MS-DOS in  particu-
          lar  does  not  gracefully support spaces in filenames.
          Conversion of spaces to underscores can  eliminate  the
          awkwardness in some cases.

     -U   leave filenames uppercase if created under MS-DOS, VMS,
          etc.   Depending  on the archiver, files archived under
          single-case filesystems may be stored as  all-uppercase
          names;  this  can be awkward when extracting to a case-
          preserving filesystem such as  OS/2  HPFS  or  a  case-
          sensitive  one  such  as  under Unix.  By default unzip
          converts  such  filenames  to  lowercase;  this  option
          causes all filenames to be extracted exactly as they're
          stored (excepting truncation, conversion of unsupported
          characters, etc.).

     -V   retain (VMS) file version numbers.  VMS  files  can  be
          stored   with   a   version   number,   in  the  format
          file.ext;##.  By default the  ``;##''  version  numbers
          are  stripped,  but  this  option  allows  them  to  be
          retained.  (On filesystems  which  limit  filenames  to
          particularly  short lengths, the version numbers may be
          truncated or stripped regardless of this option.)

     -X   [VMS] restore owner/protection info (may require system
          privileges).    Ordinary  file  attributes  are  always
          restored, but this option allows UICs to be restored as
          well.   [The  next  version  of unzip will support Unix
          UID/GID info as well, and possibly NT permissions.]

     -$   [MS-DOS, OS/2, NT, Amiga] restore the volume  label  if
          the  extraction medium is removable (e.g., a diskette).
          Doubling the option  (-$$)  allows  fixed  media  (hard
          disks)  to  be  labelled  as  well.  By default, volume
          labels are ignored.

ENVIRONMENT OPTIONS
     unzip's default behavior may be modified via options  placed
     in  an  environment  variable.   This  can  be done with any
     option, but it is probably most useful with the -q, -a,  -o,
     or  -n  modifiers:   make  unzip quieter by default, make it
     auto-convert text files, or  make  it  always  overwrite  or
     never  overwrite files as it extracts them.  For example, to
     make unzip  act  as  quietly  as  possible,  only  reporting
     errors, one would use one of the following commands:

        UNZIP=-qq; export UNZIP   Unix Bourne shell
        setenv UNZIP -qq          Unix C shell
        set UNZIP=-qq             OS/2 or MS-DOS
        define UNZIP_OPTS "-qq"   VMS (quotes for lowercase)

     Environment options are, in effect, considered  to  be  just
     like  any  other  command-line options, except that they are
     effectively the first options on the command line.  To over-
     ride  an  environment option, one may use the ``minus opera-
     tor'' to remove it.  For instance, to override  one  of  the
     quiet-flags in the example above, use the command

        unzip --q[other options] zipfile

     The first hyphen is the normal  switch  character,  and  the
     second  is  a  minus sign, acting on the q option.  Thus the
     effect here is to cancel one quantum of quietness.  To  can-
     cel both quiet flags, two (or more) minuses may be used:

        unzip -t--q zipfile
        unzip ---qt zipfile

     (the two are equivalent).  This may seem awkward or  confus-
     ing,  but it is reasonably intuitive:  just ignore the first
     hyphen and go from there.  It is also  consistent  with  the
     behavior of Unix nice(1).

EXAMPLES
     To  use  unzip  to  extract  all  members  of  the   archive
     letters.zip  into  the  current directory and subdirectories
     below it, creating any subdirectories as necessary:

        unzip letters

     To extract all  members  of  letters.zip  into  the  current
     directory only:

        unzip -j letters

     To test letters.zip, printing only a summary  message  indi-
     cating whether the archive is OK or not:

        unzip -tq letters

     To extract to standard output  all  members  of  letters.zip
     whose  names  end in .tex, auto-converting to the local end-
     of-line convention and piping the output into more(1):

        unzip -ca letters \*.tex | more

     (The backslash before the asterisk is only required  if  the
     shell  expands  wildcards,  as  in Unix; double quotes could
     have been used instead, as in the source example below.)  To
     extract  the  binary  file paper1.dvi to standard output and
     pipe it to a printing program:

        unzip -p articles paper1.dvi | dvips

     To extract all FORTRAN and C source  files--*.f,  *.c,  *.h,
     and Makefile--into the /tmp directory:

        unzip source.zip "*.[fch]" Makefile -d /tmp

     (the double quotes are necessary only in Unix  and  only  if
     globbing  is  turned on).  To extract only newer versions of
     the files already in the current directory, without querying
     (NOTE:   be  careful  of unzipping in one timezone a zipfile
     created in another--ZIP archives to date contain no timezone
     information,  and  a ``newer'' file from an eastern timezone
     may, in fact, be older):

        unzip -fo sources

     To extract newer  versions  of  the  files  already  in  the
     current  directory and to create any files not already there
     (same caveat as previous example):

        unzip -uo sources

     In the last five examples, assume that UNZIP  or  UNZIP_OPTS
     is set to -q.  To do a singly quiet listing:

        unzip -l file

     To do a doubly quiet listing:

        unzip -ql file

     To do a standard listing:

        unzip --ql file
     or
        unzip -l-q file
     or
        unzip -l--q file          (extra minuses don't hurt)

TIPS
     The current maintainer, being a lazy  sort,  finds  it  very
     useful  to  define  a pair of aliases:  tt for ``unzip -tq''
     and ii for ``unzip -Z'' (or ``zipinfo'').  One may then sim-
     ply  type ``tt zipfile'' to test an archive, something which
     is worth making a habit of  doing.   With  luck  unzip  will
     report  ``No  errors  detected in zipfile.zip,'' after which
     one may breathe a sigh of relief.

BUGS
     [MS-DOS] When extracting or testing files from an archive on
     a  defective  floppy  diskette,  if  the  ``Fail'' option is
     chosen from DOS's ``Abort, Retry, Fail?'' message, unzip may
     hang   the  system,  requiring  a  reboot.   Instead,  press
     control-C (or control-Break) to terminate unzip.

     Under DEC Ultrix, unzip will sometimes fail on long zipfiles
     (bad  CRC, not always reproducible).  This is apparently due
     either to a hardware bug (cache memory) or an operating sys-
     tem bug (improper handling of page faults?).

     Dates and times of stored directories are not restored.

     [OS/2] Extended  attributes  for  existing  directories  are
     never  updated.   This is a limitation of the operating sys-
     tem; unzip has no way to determine whether the stored attri-
     butes are newer or older than the existing ones.

     [VMS] When extracting to another directory, only the  [.foo]
     syntax  is  accepted  for the -d option; the simple Unix foo
     syntax is silently  ignored  (as  is  the  less  common  VMS
     foo.dir syntax).

     [VMS] When the file being extracted already exists,  unzip's
     query  only  allows skipping, overwriting or renaming; there
     should additionally be a choice for creating a  new  version
     of  the file.  In fact, the ``overwrite'' choice does create
     a new  version;  the  old  version  is  not  overwritten  or
     deleted.

SEE ALSO
     funzip(1L), zip(1L), zipcloak(1L), zipgrep(1L), zipinfo(1L),
     zipnote(1L), zipsplit(1L)

AUTHORS
     The primary Info-ZIP authors  (current  zip-bugs  workgroup)
     are:   Jean-loup Gailly (Zip), Greg R. Roelofs (UnZip), Mark
     Adler (decompression, fUnZip), Kai Uwe Rommel  (OS/2),  Igor
     Mandrichenko  (VMS),  John  Bush  and  Paul Kienitz (Amiga),
     Antoine Verheijen (Macintosh), Chris Herborth (Atari), Henry
     Gessau  (NT), and Robert Heath (Windows).  The author of the
     original unzip code  upon  which  Info-ZIP's  is  based  was
     Samuel  H.  Smith; Carl Mascott did the first Unix port; and
     David P. Kirschbaum organized and led Info-ZIP in its  early
     days.   The  full  list  of  contributors to UnZip has grown
     quite large; please refer to the CONTRIBS file in the  UnZip
     source distribution for a more complete list.

VERSIONS
     v1.2  15 Mar 89  Samuel H. Smith
     v2.0   9 Sep 89  Samuel H. Smith
     v2.x  fall 1989  many Usenet contributors
     v3.0   1 May 90  Info-ZIP (DPK, consolidator)
     v3.1  15 Aug 90  Info-ZIP (DPK, consolidator)
     v4.0   1 Dec 90  Info-ZIP (GRR, maintainer)
     v4.1  12 May 91  Info-ZIP
     v4.2  20 Mar 92  Info-ZIP (zip-bugs subgroup; GRR, maint.)
     v5.0  21 Aug 92  Info-ZIP (zip-bugs subgroup; GRR, maint.)
     v5.1   7 Feb 94  Info-ZIP (zip-bugs subgroup; GRR, maint.)

Info-ZIP             Last change:  7 Feb 94                  v5.1