Download location (HTTP): http://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.info-zip.org/pub/infozip/src/unzip550.tar.gz Download location (FTP): ftp://ftp.info-zip.org/pub/infozip/src/unzip550.tar.gz Version used: 5.50 Package size: 1.1 MB Estimated Disk space required: 5.8 MB |
The unzip package contains ZIP extraction utilities. These are useful for extracting files from ZIP archives. ZIP archives are created with PKZIP or Info-ZIP utilities primarily in a ms-dos environment.
Install unzip by running the following commands:
cp unix/Makefile . && make prefix=/usr linux && make prefix=/usr linux install |
make prefix=/usr linux: This command overrides the prefix varible that is set to /usr/local in the Makefile and builds the executibles for a linux system. The alternatives to 'linux' can be seen with a 'make list' command.
The unzip package contains unzip, funzip, unzipfsx, zipgrep and zipinfo.
unzip lists, tests or extracts files from a ZIP archive.
funzip allows the output of unzip commands to be redirected.
unzipfsx is the self-extracting stub that can be prepended to a ZIP archive. Files in this format allow the receipient to decompress the archive without installing unzip.
zipgrep is a grep for ZIP archives.
zipinfo produces technical information about the files in a ZIP archive, including file access permissions, encryption status, type of compression, etc.