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ZIP(1L) MISC. REFERENCE MANUAL PAGES ZIP(1L)
NAME
zip, zipcloak, zipnote, zipsplit - package and compress
(archive) files
SYNOPSIS
zip [-cdeEfghijklLmoqrTuwyz@] [-b path] [-n suffixes]
[-t mmddyy] [-x list] [ zipfile [ file1 file2 ...]]
zipcloak [-dhL] [-b path] zipfile
zipnote [-hwL] [-b path] zipfile
zipsplit [-hitL] [-b path] zipfile
DESCRIPTION
zip is a compression and file packaging utility for Unix,
VMS, MSDOS, OS/2, Windows NT, Minix, Atari and Macintosh.
It is analogous to a combination of the UNIX commands tar(1)
and compress(1) and is compatible with PKZIP (Phil Katz's
ZIP for MSDOS systems).
A companion program (unzip(1L)), unpacks zip archives. The
zip and unzip(1L) programs can work with archives produced
by PKZIP, and PKZIP and PKUNZIP can work with archives pro-
duced by zip. zip version 1.9 is compatible with PKZIP
1.93a. Note that PKUNZIP 1.10 cannot extract files produced
by PKZIP 1.93a or zip 1.9. You must use PKUNZIP 1.93a or
unzip 5.0 (or later versions) to extract them.
For a brief help on zip and unzip, run each without specify-
ing any parameters on the command line.
The program is useful for packaging a set of files for dis-
tribution; for archiving files; and for saving disk space by
temporarily compressing unused files or directories.
The zip program puts one or more compressed files into a
single zip archive, along with information about the files
(name, path, date, time of last modification, protection,
and check information to verify file integrity). An entire
directory structure can be packed into a zip archive with a
single command. Compression ratios of 2:1 to 3:1 are common
for text files. zip has one compression method (deflation)
and can also store files without compression. zip automati-
cally chooses the better of the two for each file to be
compressed.
When given the name of an existing zip archive, zip will
replace identically named entries in the zip archive or add
entries for new names. For example, if foo.zip exists and
contains foo/file1 and foo/file2, and the directory foo con-
tains the files foo/file1 and foo/file3, then:
zip -r foo foo
will replace foo/file1 in foo.zip and add foo/file3 to
foo.zip. After this, foo.zip contains foo/file1, foo/file2,
and foo/file3, with foo/file2 unchanged from before.
If the file list is specified as -@, zip takes the list of
input files from standard input. Under UNIX, this option
can be used to powerful effect in conjunction with the
find(1) command. For example, to archive all the C source
files in the current directory and its subdirectories:
find . -name "*.[ch]" -print | zip source -@
(note that the pattern must be quoted to keep the shell from
expanding it). zip will also accept a single dash ("-") as
the zip file name, in which case it will write the zip file
to standard output, allowing the output to be piped to
another program. For example:
zip -r - . | dd of=/dev/nrst0 obs=16k
would write the zip output directly to a tape with the
specified block size for the purpose of backing up the
current directory.
zip also accepts a single dash ("-") as the name of a file
to be compressed, in which case it will read the file from
standard input, allowing zip to take input from another pro-
gram. For example:
tar cf - . | zip backup -
would compress the output of the tar command for the purpose
of backing up the current directory. This generally produces
better compression than the previous example using the -r
option, because zip can take advantage of redundancy between
files. The backup can be restored using the command
unzip -p backup | tar xf -
When no zip file name is given and stdout is not a terminal,
zip acts as a filter, compressing standard input to standard
output. For example,
tar cf - . | zip | dd of=/dev/nrst0 obs=16k
is equivalent to
tar cf - . | zip - - | dd of=/dev/nrst0 obs=16k
zip archives created in this manner can be extracted with
the program funzip which is provided in the unzip package.
For example:
dd if=/dev/nrst0 ibs=16k | funzip | tar xvf -
When changing an existing zip archive, zip will write a tem-
porary file with the new contents, and only replace the old
one when the process of creating the new version has been
completed without error.
OPTIONS
-b path
Use the specified path for the temporary zip archive.
For example:
zip -b /tmp stuff *
will put the temporary zip archive in the directory
/tmp, copying over stuff.zip to the current directory
when done. This option is only useful when updating an
existing archive, and the file system containing this
old archive does not have enough space to hold both old
and new archive at the same time.
-c Add one-line comments for each file. File operations
(adding, updating) are done first, and the user is then
prompted for a one-line comment for each file. Enter
the comment followed by return, or just return for no
comment.
-d Remove (delete) entries from a zip archive. For exam-
ple:
zip -d foo foo/tom/junk foo/harry/\* \*.o
will remove the entry foo/tom/junk, all of the files
that start with foo/harry/, and all of the files that
end with .o (in any path). Note that shell pathname
expansion has been inhibited with backslashes, so that
zip can see the asterisks, enabling zip to match on the
contents of the zip archive instead of the contents of
the current directory.
Under MSDOS, -d is case sensitive when it matches names
in the zip archive. This requires that file names be
entered in upper case if they were zipped by PKZIP on
an MSDOS system.
-e Encrypt the contents of the zip archive using a pass-
word which is entered on the terminal in response to a
prompt (this will not be echoed; if standard error is
not a tty, zip will exit with an error).
-ee Encrypt contents, prompting for the password twice,
checking that the two entries are identical before
using the password.
-f Replace (freshen) an existing entry in the zip archive
only if it has been modified more recently than the
version already in the zip archive; unlike the update
option (-u) this will not add files that are not
already in the zip archive. For example:
zip -f foo
This command should be run from the same directory from
which the original zip command was run, since paths
stored in zip archives are always relative.
-g Grow (append to) the specified zip archive, instead of
creating a new one. If this operation fails, zip
attempts to restore the archive to its original state.
If the restoration fails, the archive might become cor-
rupted.
-h Display the zip help information (this also appears if
zip is run with no arguments).
-j Store just the name of a saved file (junk the path). By
default, zip will store the full path (relative to the
current path).
-k Attempt to convert the names and paths to conform to
MSDOS, store only the MSDOS attribute (just the user
write attribute from UNIX), and mark the entry as made
under MSDOS (even though it was not); for compatibility
with PKUNZIP under MSDOS.
-l Translate the Unix end-of-line character LF into the
MSDOS convention CR LF. This option should not be used
on binary files. This option can be used on Unix if
the zip file is intended for PKUNZIP under MSDOS. If
the input files already contain CR LF, this option adds
an extra CR. This ensure that unzip -a on Unix will get
back an exact copy of the original file, to undo the
effect of zip -l.
-ll Translate the MSDOS end-of-line CR LF into Unix LF.
This option should not be used on binary files. This
option can be used on MSDOS if the zip file is intended
for unzip under Unix.
-L Display the zip license.
-m Move the specified files into the zip archive; actu-
ally, this deletes the target directories/files after
making the specified zip archive. If a directory
becomes empty after removal of the files, the directory
is also removed. No deletions are done until zip has
created the archive without error. This is useful for
conserving disk space, but is potentially dangerous and
should be used with care.
-n suffixes
Do not attempt to compress files named with the given
suffixes. Such files are simply stored (0% compression)
in the output zip file, so that zip doesn't waste its
time trying to compress them. The suffixes are
separated by either colons or semicolons. For example:
zip -rn .Z:.zip:.tiff:.gif:.snd foo foo
will copy everything from foo into foo.zip, but will
store any files that end in .Z, .zip, .tiff, .gif, or
.snd without trying to compress them (image and sound
files often have their own specialized compression
methods). By default, zip does not compress files with
extensions in the list .Z:.zip:.zoo:.arc:.lzh:.arj.
Such files are stored directly in the output archive.
The environment variable ZIPOPT can be used to change
the default options. For example under Unix with csh:
setenv ZIPOPT "-n .gif:.zip"
(The variable ZIPOPT can be used for any option and can
include several options.) To attempt compression on all
files, use:
zip -n : foo
The maximum compression option -9 also attempts
compression on all files regardless of extension.
-o Set the "last modified" time of the zip archive to the
latest (oldest) "last modified" time found among the
entries in the zip archive. This can be used without
any other operations, if desired. For example:
zip -o foo
will change the last modified time of foo.zip to the
latest time of the entries in foo.zip.
-q Quiet mode; eliminate informational messages and com-
ment prompts. (useful, for example, in shell scripts
and background tasks).
-r Travel the directory structure recursively; for exam-
ple:
zip -r foo foo
In this case, all the files and directories in foo are
saved in a zip archive named foo.zip, including files
with named starting with ".", since the recursion does
not use the shell's file-name substitution mechanism.
You should not use -r with the name ".*", since that
matches ".." which will attempt to zip up the parent
directory (probably not what was intended).
-t mmddyy
Do not operate on files modified prior to the specified
date, where mm is the month (0-12), dd is the day of
the month (1-31), and yy are the last two digits of the
year. For example:
zip -rt 120791 infamy foo
will add all the files in foo and its subdirectories
that were last modified on or after 7 December 1991, to
the zip archive infamy.zip.
-T Test the integrity of the new zip file. If the check
fails, the old zip file is unchanged and (with the -m
option) not input files are removed.
-u Replace (update) an existing entry in the zip archive
only if it has been modified more recently than the
version already in the zip archive. For example:
zip -u stuff *
will add any new files in the current directory, and
update any files which have been modified since the zip
archive stuff.zip was last created/modified (note that
zip will not try to pack stuff.zip into itself when you
do this).
Note that the -u option with no arguments acts like the
-f (freshen) option.
-w Append the version number of the files to the name,
including multiple versions of files. (VMS only;
default: use only the most recent version of a speci-
fied file).
-x files
Explicitly exclude the specified files, as in:
zip -r foo foo -x \*.o
which will include the contents of foo in foo.zip while
excluding all the files that end in .o. The backslash
causes zip to match file names that were found when foo
was searched.
-y Store symbolic links as such in the zip archive,
instead of compressing and storing the file referred to
by the link (UNIX only).
-z Prompt for a multi-line comment for the entire zip
archive. The comment is ended by a line containing
just a period, or an end of file condition (^D on UNIX,
^Z on MSDOS, OS/2, and VAX/VMS). The comment can be
taken from a file:
zip -z foo < foowhat
-# Regulate the speed of compression using the specified
digit #, where -0 indicates no compression (store all
files), -1 indicates the fastest compression method
(less compression) and -9 indicates the slowest
compression method (optimal compression, ignores the
suffix list). The default compression level is -5.
-@ Take the list of input files from standard input.
EXAMPLES
The simplest example:
zip stuff *
creates the archive stuff.zip (assuming it does not exist)
and puts all the files in the current directory in it, in
compressed form (the .zip suffix is added automatically,
unless that archive name given contains a dot already; this
allows the explicit specification of other suffixes).
Because of the way the shell does filename substitution,
files starting with "." are not included; to include these
as well:
zip stuff .* *
Even this will not include any subdirectories from the
current directory.
To zip up an entire directory, the command:
zip -r foo foo
creates the archive foo.zip, containing all the files and
directories in the directory foo that is contained within
the current directory.
You may want to make a zip archive that contains the files
in foo, without recording the directory name, foo. You can
use the -j option to leave off the paths, as in:
zip -j foo foo/*
If you are short on disk space, you might not have enough
room to hold both the original directory and the correspond-
ing compressed zip archive. In this case, you can create
the archive in steps using the -m option. If foo contains
the subdirectories tom, dick, and harry, you can:
zip -rm foo foo/tom
zip -rm foo foo/dick
zip -rm foo foo/harry
where the first command creates foo.zip, and the next two
add to it. At the completion of each zip command, the last
created archive is deleted, making room for the next zip
command to function.
PATTERN MATCHING
This section applies only to UNIX. Watch this space for
details on MSDOS and VMS operation.
The UNIX shells (sh(1) and csh(1)) do filename substitution
on command arguments. The special characters are:
? match any single character
* match any number of characters (including none)
[] match any character in the range indicated within the
brackets (example: [a-f], [0-9]).
When these characters are encountered (without being escaped
with a backslash or quotes), the shell will look for files
relative to the current path that match the pattern, and
replace the argument with a list of the names that matched.
The zip program can do the same matching on names that are
in the zip archive being modified or, in the case of the -x
(exclude) option, on the list of files to be operated on, by
using backslashes or quotes to tell the shell not to do the
name expansion. In general, when zip encounters a name in
the list of files to do, it first looks for the name in the
file system. If it finds it, it then adds it to the list of
files to do. If it does not find it, it looks for the name
in the zip archive being modified (if it exists), using the
pattern matching characters described above, if present.
For each match, it will add that name to the list of files
to be processed. File names following the -x (exclude)
option are removed from the processing list instead of being
added.
The pattern matching includes the path, and so patterns like
\*.o match names that end in ".o", no matter what the path
prefix is. Note that the backslash must precede every spe-
cial character (i.e. ?*[]), or the entire argument must be
enclosed in double quotes ("").
In general, use backslash to make zip do the pattern match-
ing with the -f (freshen) and -d (delete) options, and some-
times after the -x (exclude) option when used with an
appropriate operation (add, -u, -f, or -d). The zip program
will never use pattern matching to search the file system.
If it has recursively travelled a directory, all files (and
all directories) found there are fair game.
SEE ALSO
compress(1), shar(1L), tar(1), unzip(1L)
BUGS
zip 1.9 is not compatible with PKUNZIP 1.10. Use zip 1.1 to
produce zip files which can be extracted by PKUNZIP 1.10.
zip files produced by zip 1.9 must not be updated by zip 1.1
or PKZIP 1.10 or PKZIP 1.93a, if they contain encrypted
members, or if they have been produced in a pipe or on a non
seekable device. The old versions of zip or PKZIP would
create an archive with an incorrect format. The old ver-
sions can list the contents of the zip file but cannot
extract it anyway (because of the new compression algo-
rithm). If you do not use encryption and use regular disk
files, you do not have to care about this problem.
zip 1.9 is compatible with PKZIP 1.93a, except when two
features are used: encryption or zip file created in a pipe
or on a non seekable device. PKZIP versions above 2.0 will
support such files, and unzip 5.0 already supports them.
Without -y when zip must compress a symbolic link to an non
existing file, it only displays a warning "name not
matched". A better warning should be given.
Under VMS, not all of the odd file formats are treated prop-
erly. Only stream-LF format zip files are expected to work
with zip. Others can be converted using Rahul Dhesi's BILF
program. This version of zip handles some of the conversion
internally. When using Kermit to transfer zip files from
Vax to MSDOS, type "set file type block" on the Vax. When
transfering from MSDOS to Vax, type "set file type fixed" on
the Vax. In both cases, type "set file type binary" on
MSDOS.
Under VMS, zip hangs for file specification that uses DECnet
syntax foo::*.*.
On OS/2, zip cannot match some names, such as those includ-
ing an exclamation mark or a hash sign. This is a bug in
OS/2 itself: the 32-bit DosFindFirst/Next don't find such
names. Other programs such as GNU tar are also affected by
this bug.
Under OS/2, the amount of External Attributes displayed by
DIR is (for compatibility) the amount returned by the 16-bit
version of DosQueryPathInfo(). Otherwise OS/2 1.3 and 2.0
would report different EA sizes when DIRing a file. How-
ever, the structure layout returned by the 32-bit
DosQueryPathInfo() is a bit different, it uses extra padding
bytes and link pointers (it's a linked list) to have all
fields on 4-byte boundaries for portability to future RISC
OS/2 versions. Therefore the value reported by zip (which
uses this 32-bit-mode size) differs from that reported by
DIR. zip stores the 32-bit format for portability, even the
16-bit MS-C-compiled version running on OS/2 1.3, so even
this one shows the 32-bit-mode size.
AUTHORS
Copyright (C) 1990-1992 Mark Adler, Richard B. Wales, Jean-
loup Gailly, Kai Uwe Rommel and Igor Mandrichenko. Permis-
sion is granted to any individual or institution to use,
copy, or redistribute this software so long as all of the
original files are included unmodified, that it is not sold
for profit, and that this copyright notice is retained.
LIKE ANYTHING ELSE THAT'S FREE, ZIP AND ITS ASSOCIATED UTIL-
ITIES ARE PROVIDED AS IS AND COME WITH NO WARRANTY OF ANY
KIND, EITHER EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED. IN NO EVENT WILL THE
COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES RESULTING FROM
THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE.
Please send bug reports and comments to:
zip-bugs@wkuvx1.bitnet. For bug reports, please include the
version of zip, the make options used to compile it, the
machine and operating system in use, and as much additional
information as possible.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Thanks to R. P. Byrne for his Shrink.Pas program, which
inspired this project, and from which the shrink algorithm
was stolen; to Phil Katz for placing in the public domain
the zip file format, compression format, and .ZIP filename
extension, and for accepting minor changes to the file for-
mat; to Steve Burg for clarifications on the deflate format;
to Keith Petersen, Rich Wales, Hunter Goatley and Mark Adler
for providing a mailing list and ftp site for the INFO-ZIP
group to use; and most importantly, to the INFO-ZIP group
itself (listed in the file infozip.who) without whose tire-
less testing and bug-fixing efforts a portable zip would not
have been possible. Finally we should thank (blame) the
first INFO-ZIP moderator, David Kirschbaum, for getting us
into this mess in the first place. The manual page was
rewritten for UNIX by R. P. C. Rodgers.