[filespec] An optional list of archive members to be processed.
Expressions may be used to match multiple members; be sure to quote
expressions that contain characters interpreted by the UNIX shell. See
DESCRIPTION (below) for more details.
-x,-e extract files in archive (default--i.e., this flag is optional) -c extract files to stdout (``CRT'') -p extract files to stdout and no informational messages (for pipes) -t test archive contents for validity -l list archive contents (short format) -v verbose listing of archive contents -z display only the archive comment
-q perform operations quietly (up to two q's allowed) -a convert to MS-DOS textfile format (CR LF), Mac format (CR), Unix/VMS format (LF), OR from ASCII to EBCDIC, depending on your system -d recreate directory structure contained in archive -o OK to overwrite files without prompting -U don't map filenames to lowercase for selected (uppercase) OS's -V retain file version numbers
* matches a sequence of 0 or more characters
? matches exactly 1 character
\nnn matches the character having octal code nnn
[...] matches any single character found inside the brackets; ranges
are specified by a beginning character, a hyphen, and an ending
character. If a '!' follows the left bracket, then the range
of characters matched is complemented with respect to the ASCII
character set.
v1.2 3/15/89 Samuel H. Smith v2.x 1989 Many contributors. v3.0 5/1/90 David Kirschbaum, consolidator, and the Info-ZIP workgroup (Info-ZIP@WSMR-SIMTEL20.Army.Mil). v3.1 8/15/90 Same luvable gang. v4.0 12/1/90 Getting more luvable by the day. v4.1 5/12/91 We got too luvable, so we toned it down a bit (for Mom).