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TLDR: UNZIP (tldr-pages)

Extract files/directories from Zip archives.

  • Extract all files/directories from specific archives into the current directory
    unzip {{path/to/archive1.zip path/to/archive2.zip ...}}
  • Extract files/directories from archives to a specific path
    unzip {{path/to/archive1.zip path/to/archive2.zip ...}} -d {{path/to/output}}
  • Extract files/directories from archives to `stdout` alongside the extracted file names
    unzip -c {{path/to/archive1.zip path/to/archive2.zip ...}}
  • Extract an archive created on Windows, containing files with non-ASCII (e.g. Chinese or Japanese characters) filenames
    unzip -O {{gbk}} {{path/to/archive1.zip path/to/archive2.zip ...}}
  • List the contents of a specific archive without extracting them
    unzip -l {{path/to/archive}}.zip
  • Extract specific files from an archive
    unzip -j {{path/to/archive}}.zip {{path/to/file1_in_archive path/to/file2_in_archive ...}}
UNZIP(1)                               General Commands Manual                              UNZIP(1)

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

SYNOPSIS
       unzip  [-Z]  [-cflptTuvz[abjnoqsCDKLMUVWX$/:^]]  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  subdi‐
       rectories  below  it) all files from the specified ZIP archive.  A companion program, zip(1),
       creates ZIP archives; both programs are compatible with archives created  by  PKWARE's  PKZIP
       and PKUNZIP for MS-DOS, but in many cases the program options or default behaviors differ.

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  system).
              Only the filename can be a wildcard; the path itself cannot.  Wildcard expressions are
              similar  to  those  supported in commonly used Unix shells (sh, ksh, csh) and may con‐
              tain:

              *      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 `^') follows the left bracket, then the range of char‐
                     acters  within the brackets is complemented (that is, anything except the char‐
                     acters inside the brackets is considered a match).  To specify a verbatim  left
                     bracket, the three-character sequence ``[[]'' has to be used.

              (Be sure to quote any character that 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 supported, as with any
              other ZIP archive; just specify the .exe suffix (if any) explicitly.

       [file(s)]
              An optional list of archive members to be processed, separated by spaces.   (VMS  ver‐
              sions  compiled with VMSCLI defined must delimit files with commas instead.  See -v in
              OPTIONS below.)  Regular expressions (wildcards) may be used to  match  multiple  mem‐
              bers; see above.  Again, be sure to quote expressions that would otherwise be expanded
              or modified by the operating system.

       [-x xfile(s)]
              An  optional  list  of archive members to be excluded from processing.  Since wildcard
              characters normally match (`/') directory separators (for exceptions  see  the  option
              -W), this option may be used to exclude any files that are in subdirectories.  For ex‐
              ample, ``unzip foo *.[ch] -x */*'' would extract all C source files in the main direc‐
              tory,  but  none  in any subdirectories.  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  subdirec‐
              tories  are  recreated in the current directory; the -d option allows extraction in an
              arbitrary directory (always assuming one has permission to write  to  the  directory).
              This option need not appear at the end of the command line; it is also accepted before
              the  zipfile  specification  (with  the normal options), immediately after the zipfile
              specification, or between the file(s) and the -x option.  The option and directory may
              be concatenated without any white space between them, but note  that  this  may  cause
              normal  shell  behavior to be suppressed.  In particular, ``-d ~'' (tilde) is expanded
              by Unix C shells into the name of the user's home directory, but ``-d~'' is treated as
              a literal subdirectory ``~'' of the current directory.

OPTIONS
       Note that, in order to support obsolescent hardware, unzip's usage screen is limited to 22 or
       23 lines and should therefore be considered only a reminder of the basic unzip syntax  rather
       than an exhaustive list of all possible flags.  The exhaustive list follows:

       -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.

       -A     [OS/2, Unix DLL] print extended help for the DLL's programming interface (API).

       -c     extract files to stdout/screen (``CRT'').  This option is similar to the -p option ex‐
              cept  that  the  name of each file is printed as it is extracted, the -a option is al‐
              lowed, and ASCII-EBCDIC conversion is automatically performed  if  appropriate.   This
              option is not listed in the unzip usage screen.

       -f     freshen  existing files, i.e., extract only those files that already exist on disk and
              that are newer than the disk copies.  By default unzip queries before overwriting, but
              the -o option may be used to suppress the queries.  Note  that  under  many  operating
              systems,  the TZ (timezone) environment variable must be set correctly in order for -f
              and -u to work properly (under Unix the variable is usually set  automatically).   The
              reasons  for this are somewhat subtle but have to do with the differences between DOS-
              format file times (always local time) and Unix-format times (always  in  GMT/UTC)  and
              the  necessity to compare the two.  A typical TZ value is ``PST8PDT'' (US Pacific time
              with automatic adjustment for Daylight Savings Time or ``summer time'').

       -l     list archive files (short format).  The names, uncompressed file sizes  and  modifica‐
              tion  dates  and  times  of the specified files are printed, along with totals for all
              files specified.  If UnZip was compiled with OS2_EAS defined, the -l option also lists
              columns for the sizes of stored OS/2 extended attributes (EAs) and OS/2 access control
              lists (ACLs).  In addition, the zipfile comment and individual file comments (if  any)
              are  displayed.   If  a file was archived from a single-case file system (for example,
              the old MS-DOS FAT file system) and the -L option was given, the filename is converted
              to lowercase and is prefixed with a caret (^).

       -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 specified file in memory and compares
              the CRC (cyclic redundancy check, an enhanced checksum) of the expanded file with  the
              original file's stored CRC value.

       -T     [most  OSes]  set  the  timestamp on the archive(s) to that of the newest file in each
              one.  This corresponds to zip's -go option except that it can be used on wildcard zip‐
              files (e.g., ``unzip -T \*.zip'') and is much faster.

       -u     update existing files and create new ones if needed.  This option  performs  the  same
              function  as  the  -f  option, extracting (with query) files that are newer than those
              with the same name on disk, and in addition it extracts those files that  do  not  al‐
              ready exist on disk.  See -f above for information on setting the timezone properly.

       -v     list  archive files (verbose format) or show diagnostic version info.  This option has
              evolved and now behaves as both an option and a modifier.  As an  option  it  has  two
              purposes:   when  a zipfile is specified with no other options, -v lists archive files
              verbosely, adding to the basic -l info the compression method, compressed  size,  com‐
              pression  ratio and 32-bit CRC.  In contrast to most of the competing utilities, unzip
              removes the 12 additional header bytes of encrypted entries from the  compressed  size
              numbers.   Therefore, compressed size and compression ratio figures are independent of
              the entry's encryption status and show the correct compression performance.  (The com‐
              plete size of the encrypted compressed data stream for zipfile entries is reported  by
              the  more  verbose  zipinfo(1)  reports, see the separate manual.)  When no zipfile is
              specified (that is, the complete command is simply ``unzip -v''), a diagnostic  screen
              is  printed.   In  addition  to the normal header with release date and version, unzip
              lists the home Info-ZIP ftp site and where to find a list of  other  ftp  and  non-ftp
              sites;  the  target  operating system for which it was compiled, as well as (possibly)
              the hardware on which it was compiled, the compiler and version used, and the compila‐
              tion date; any special compilation options that might affect the  program's  operation
              (see  also  DECRYPTION  below);  and  any options stored in environment variables that
              might do the same (see ENVIRONMENT OPTIONS below).  As a modifier it works in conjunc‐
              tion with other options (e.g., -t) to produce more verbose or debugging  output;  this
              is not yet fully implemented but will be in future releases.

       -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, converting 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 carriage 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 System use EBCDIC rather  than  the  more  common
              ASCII character 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 ex‐
              tracted as text, regardless of the supposed file type.  On VMS, see also -S.

       -b     [general] treat all files as binary (no text conversions).  This  is  a  shortcut  for
              ---a.

       -b     [Tandem] force the creation files with filecode type 180 ('C') when extracting Zip en‐
              tries marked as "text". (On Tandem, -a is enabled by default, see above).

       -b     [VMS]  auto-convert  binary files (see -a above) to fixed-length, 512-byte record for‐
              mat.  Doubling the option (-bb) forces all files to be extracted in this format.  When
              extracting  to  standard output (-c or -p option in effect), the default conversion of
              text record delimiters is disabled for binary (-b) resp. all (-bb) files.

       -B     [when compiled with UNIXBACKUP defined] save a backup copy of each  overwritten  file.
              The  backup  file  is  gets  the name of the target file with a tilde and optionally a
              unique sequence number (up to 5 digits) appended.   The  sequence  number  is  applied
              whenever another file with the original name plus tilde already exists.  When used to‐
              gether with the "overwrite all" option -o, numbered backup files are never created. In
              this case, all backup files are named as the original file with an appended tilde, ex‐
              isting  backup  files are deleted without notice.  This feature works similarly to the
              default behavior of emacs(1) in many locations.

              Example: the old copy of ``foo'' is renamed to ``foo~''.

              Warning: Users should be aware that the -B option does not prevent  loss  of  existing
              data  under  all circumstances.  For example, when unzip is run in overwrite-all mode,
              an existing ``foo~'' file is deleted  before  unzip  attempts  to  rename  ``foo''  to
              ``foo~''.  When this rename attempt fails (because of a file locks, insufficient priv‐
              ileges, or ...), the extraction of ``foo~'' gets cancelled, but the old backup file is
              already  lost.  A similar scenario takes place when the sequence number range for num‐
              bered backup files gets exhausted (99999, or 65535 for 16-bit systems).  In this case,
              the backup file with the maximum sequence number is deleted and replaced  by  the  new
              backup version without notice.

       -C     use  case-insensitive  matching for the selection of archive entries from the command-
              line list of extract selection patterns.  unzip's philosophy is ``you get what you ask
              for'' (this is also responsible for the -L/-U change; see the relevant options below).
              Because some file systems are fully case-sensitive (notably those under the Unix oper‐
              ating system) and because both ZIP archives and unzip itself are portable across plat‐
              forms, unzip's default behavior is to match both wildcard and literal filenames  case-
              sensitively.   That  is,  specifying  ``makefile'' on the command line will only match
              ``makefile'' in the archive, not ``Makefile'' or ``MAKEFILE'' (and similarly for wild‐
              card specifications).  Since this does not correspond to the behavior  of  many  other
              operating/file  systems (for example, OS/2 HPFS, which preserves mixed case but is not
              sensitive to it), the -C option may be used to force all filename matches to be  case-
              insensitive.   In the example above, all three files would then match ``makefile'' (or
              ``make*'', or similar).  The -C option affects file specs in both the normal file list
              and the excluded-file list (xlist).

              Please note that the -C option does neither affect the search for the  zipfile(s)  nor
              the  matching of archive entries to existing files on the extraction path.  On a case-
              sensitive file system, unzip will never try to overwrite a file ``FOO'' when  extract‐
              ing an entry ``foo''!

       -D     skip  restoration of timestamps for extracted items.  Normally, unzip tries to restore
              all meta-information for extracted items that are supplied in the Zip archive (and  do
              not require privileges or impose a security risk).  By specifying -D, unzip is told to
              suppress restoration of timestamps for directories explicitly created from Zip archive
              entries.  This option only applies to ports that support setting timestamps for direc‐
              tories  (currently ATheOS, BeOS, MacOS, OS/2, Unix, VMS, Win32, for other unzip ports,
              -D has no effect).  The duplicated option -DD forces suppression of timestamp restora‐
              tion for all extracted entries (files and directories).  This option results  in  set‐
              ting the timestamps for all extracted entries to the current time.

              On  VMS,  the default setting for this option is -D for consistency with the behaviour
              of BACKUP: file timestamps are restored, timestamps of extracted directories are  left
              at  the  current time.  To enable restoration of directory timestamps, the negated op‐
              tion --D should be specified.  On VMS, the option -D  disables  timestamp  restoration
              for  all extracted Zip archive items.  (Here, a single -D on the command line combines
              with the default -D to do what an explicit -DD does on other systems.)

       -E     [MacOS only] display contents of MacOS extra field during restore operation.

       -F     [Acorn only] suppress removal of NFS filetype extension from stored filenames.

       -F     [non-Acorn systems supporting long filenames with embedded commas, and  only  if  com‐
              piled  with ACORN_FTYPE_NFS defined] translate filetype information from ACORN RISC OS
              extra field blocks into a NFS filetype extension and append it to the names of the ex‐
              tracted files.  (When the stored filename appears to  already  have  an  appended  NFS
              filetype extension, it is replaced by the info from the extra field.)

       -i     [MacOS only] ignore filenames stored in MacOS extra fields. Instead, the most compati‐
              ble filename stored in the generic part of the entry's header is used.

       -I CHARSET
              [UNIX only] Specify a character encoding for UNIX and other archives.

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

       -J     [BeOS only] junk file attributes.  The file's BeOS file attributes are  not  restored,
              just the file's data.

       -J     [MacOS only] ignore MacOS extra fields.  All Macintosh specific info is skipped. Data-
              fork and resource-fork are restored as separate files.

       -K     [AtheOS,  BeOS, Unix only] retain SUID/SGID/Tacky file attributes.  Without this flag,
              these attribute bits are cleared for security reasons.

       -L     convert to lowercase any filename originating on an uppercase-only operating system or
              file system.  (This was unzip's default behavior in releases prior to  5.11;  the  new
              default behavior is identical to the old behavior with the -U option, which is now ob‐
              solete  and  will  be  removed in a future release.)  Depending on the archiver, files
              archived under single-case file systems (VMS, old MS-DOS FAT, etc.) may be  stored  as
              all-uppercase  names;  this can be ugly or inconvenient when extracting to a case-pre‐
              serving file system such as OS/2 HPFS or a case-sensitive one such as under Unix.   By
              default  unzip  lists and extracts such filenames exactly as they're stored (excepting
              truncation, conversion of unsupported characters, etc.); this option causes the  names
              of all files from certain systems to be converted to lowercase.  The -LL option forces
              conversion of every filename to lowercase, regardless of the originating file system.

       -M     pipe all output through an internal pager similar to the Unix more(1) command.  At the
              end  of  a  screenful  of  output,  unzip  pauses with a ``--More--'' prompt; the next
              screenful may be viewed by pressing the Enter (Return) key or the  space  bar.   unzip
              can  be  terminated  by  pressing the ``q'' key and, on some systems, the Enter/Return
              key.  Unlike Unix more(1), there is no forward-searching or editing capability.  Also,
              unzip doesn't notice if long lines wrap at the edge of the screen, effectively result‐
              ing in the printing of two or more lines and the likelihood that some text will scroll
              off the top of the screen before being viewed.  On some systems the number  of  avail‐
              able lines on the screen is not detected, in which case unzip assumes the height is 24
              lines.

       -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 that al‐
              ready 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.

       -N     [Amiga] extract file comments as Amiga filenotes.  File comments are created with  the
              -c  option  of zip(1), or with the -N option of the Amiga port of zip(1), which stores
              filenotes as comments.

       -o     overwrite existing files without prompting.  This is a dangerous  option,  so  use  it
              with  care.   (It is often used with -f, however, and is the only way to overwrite di‐
              rectory EAs under OS/2.)

       -O CHARSET
              [UNIX only] Specify a character encoding for DOS, Windows and OS/2 archives.

       -P password
              use password to decrypt encrypted zipfile entries (if any).  THIS IS  INSECURE!   Many
              multi-user operating systems provide ways for any user to see the current command line
              of any other user; even on stand-alone systems there is always the threat of over-the-
              shoulder  peeking.  Storing the plaintext password as part of a command line in an au‐
              tomated script is even worse.  Whenever possible,  use  the  non-echoing,  interactive
              prompt to enter passwords.  (And where security is truly important, use strong encryp‐
              tion such as Pretty Good Privacy instead of the relatively weak encryption provided by
              standard zipfile utilities.)

       -q     perform operations quietly (-qq = even quieter).  Ordinarily unzip prints the names of
              the files it's extracting or testing, the extraction methods, any file or zipfile com‐
              ments  that  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  mes‐
              sages.

       -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 in‐
              tact  (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  under‐
              scores can eliminate the awkwardness in some cases.

       -S     [VMS]  convert text files (-a, -aa) into Stream_LF record format, instead of the text-
              file default, variable-length record format.  (Stream_LF is the default record  format
              of VMS unzip. It is applied unless conversion (-a, -aa and/or -b, -bb) is requested or
              a VMS-specific entry is processed.)

       -U     [UNICODE_SUPPORT  only]  modify  or  disable  UTF-8 handling.  When UNICODE_SUPPORT is
              available, the option -U forces unzip to escape all non-ASCII  characters  from  UTF-8
              coded filenames as ``#Uxxxx'' (for UCS-2 characters, or ``#Lxxxxxx'' for unicode code‐
              points  needing  3 octets).  This option is mainly provided for debugging purpose when
              the fairly new UTF-8 support is suspected to mangle up extracted filenames.

              The option -UU allows to entirely disable the recognition of UTF-8 encoded  filenames.
              The  handling of filename codings within unzip falls back to the behaviour of previous
              versions.

              [old, obsolete usage] leave filenames uppercase if created  under  MS-DOS,  VMS,  etc.
              See -L above.

       -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 file systems that limit filenames to  particu‐
              larly  short  lengths,  the version numbers may be truncated or stripped regardless of
              this option.)

       -W     [only when WILD_STOP_AT_DIR compile-time option enabled] modifies the pattern matching
              routine so that both `?' (single-char wildcard) and `*' (multi-char wildcard)  do  not
              match  the directory separator character `/'.  (The two-character sequence ``**'' acts
              as a multi-char wildcard that includes the directory separator in its matched  charac‐
              ters.)  Examples:

           "*.c" matches "foo.c" but not "mydir/foo.c"
           "**.c" matches both "foo.c" and "mydir/foo.c"
           "*/*.c" matches "bar/foo.c" but not "baz/bar/foo.c"
           "??*/*" matches "ab/foo" and "abc/foo"
                   but not "a/foo" or "a/b/foo"

              This modified behaviour is equivalent to the pattern matching style used by the shells
              of  some  of UnZip's supported target OSs (one example is Acorn RISC OS).  This option
              may not be available on systems where the Zip archive's internal  directory  separator
              character  `/'  is  allowed as regular character in native operating system filenames.
              (Currently, UnZip uses the same pattern matching rules for both wildcard zipfile spec‐
              ifications and zip entry selection patterns in most ports.  For systems  allowing  `/'
              as  regular filename character, the -W option would not work as expected on a wildcard
              zipfile specification.)

       -X     [VMS, Unix, OS/2, NT, Tandem] restore owner/protection info (UICs and ACL entries) un‐
              der VMS, or user and group info (UID/GID) under Unix, or access control  lists  (ACLs)
              under  certain  network-enabled  versions of OS/2 (Warp Server with IBM LAN Server/Re‐
              quester 3.0 to 5.0; Warp Connect with IBM Peer 1.0), or security  ACLs  under  Windows
              NT.   In  most cases this will require special system privileges, and doubling the op‐
              tion (-XX) under NT instructs unzip to use privileges for extraction; but under  Unix,
              for  example,  a  user who belongs to several groups can restore files owned by any of
              those groups, as long as the user IDs match his or her own.  Note that  ordinary  file
              attributes  are always restored--this option applies only to optional, extra ownership
              info available on some operating systems.  [NT's access control lists do not appear to
              be especially compatible with OS/2's, so no attempt is made at  cross-platform  porta‐
              bility of access privileges.  It is not clear under what conditions this would ever be
              useful anyway.]

       -Y     [VMS]  treat  archived file name endings of ``.nnn'' (where ``nnn'' is a decimal  num‐
              ber) as if they were VMS version numbers (``;nnn'').  (The default is to treat them as
              file types.)  Example:
                   "a.b.3" -> "a.b;3".

       -$     [MS-DOS, OS/2, NT] 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.

       -/ extensions
              [Acorn only] overrides the extension list supplied by Unzip$Ext environment  variable.
              During  extraction,  filename extensions that match one of the items in this extension
              list are swapped in front of the base name of the extracted file.

       -:     [all but Acorn, VM/CMS, MVS, Tandem] allows to extract archive members into  locations
              outside  of  the current `` extraction root folder''. For security reasons, unzip nor‐
              mally removes ``parent dir'' path components (``../'') from  the  names  of  extracted
              file.   This  safety  feature  (new for version 5.50) prevents unzip from accidentally
              writing files to ``sensitive'' areas outside the active extraction folder  tree  head.
              The -: option lets unzip switch back to its previous, more liberal behaviour, to allow
              exact  extraction  of (older) archives that used ``../'' components to create multiple
              directory trees at the level of the current extraction folder.  This option  does  not
              enable  writing explicitly to the root directory (``/'').  To achieve this, it is nec‐
              essary to set the extraction target folder to root (e.g. -d / ).  However, when the -:
              option is specified, it is still possible to implicitly write to the root directory by
              specifying enough ``../'' path components within the zip  archive.   Use  this  option
              with extreme caution.

       -^     [Unix  only]  allow  control characters in names of extracted ZIP archive entries.  On
              Unix, a file name may contain any (8-bit) character code with the  two  exception  '/'
              (directory  delimiter)  and NUL (0x00, the C string termination indicator), unless the
              specific file system has more restrictive conventions.  Generally, this allows to  em‐
              bed  ASCII control characters (or even sophisticated control sequences) in file names,
              at least on 'native' Unix file systems.  However, it may be highly suspicious to  make
              use  of  this  Unix  "feature".   Embedded control characters in file names might have
              nasty side effects when displayed on screen by some listing  code  without  sufficient
              filtering.   And,  for  ordinary  users, it may be difficult to handle such file names
              (e.g. when trying to specify it for open, copy, move, or delete  operations).   There‐
              fore,  unzip  applies  a  filter by default that removes potentially dangerous control
              characters from the extracted file names. The -^ option allows to override this filter
              in the rare case that embedded filename control characters are to be intentionally re‐
              stored.

       -2     [VMS] force unconditionally conversion of file names to  ODS2-compatible  names.   The
              default  is  to exploit the destination file system, preserving case and extended file
              name characters on an ODS5 destination file system; and applying the  ODS2-compatibil‐
              ity file name filtering on an ODS2 destination file system.

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 -a, -L, -C, -q, -o, or
       -n modifiers:  make unzip auto-convert text files by default, make it convert filenames  from
       uppercase  systems  to lowercase, make it match names case-insensitively, make it quieter, 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:

         Unix Bourne shell:
              UNZIP=-qq; export UNZIP

         Unix C shell:
              setenv UNZIP -qq

         OS/2 or MS-DOS:
              set UNZIP=-qq

         VMS (quotes for lowercase):
              define UNZIP_OPTS "-qq"

       Environment options are, in effect, considered to be just like  any  other  command-line  op‐
       tions,  except  that they are effectively the first options on the command line.  To override
       an environment option, one may use the ``minus operator'' 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  cancel  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 confusing, but it is reasonably intu‐
       itive:  just ignore the first hyphen and go from there.  It is also consistent with  the  be‐
       havior of Unix nice(1).

       As  suggested by the examples above, the default variable names are UNZIP_OPTS for VMS (where
       the symbol used to install unzip as a foreign command would otherwise be  confused  with  the
       environment  variable),  and  UNZIP  for all other operating systems.  For compatibility with
       zip(1), UNZIPOPT is also accepted (don't ask).  If both UNZIP and UNZIPOPT are defined,  how‐
       ever,  UNZIP  takes  precedence.   unzip's diagnostic option (-v with no zipfile name) can be
       used to check the values of all four possible unzip and zipinfo environment variables.

       The timezone variable (TZ) should be set according to the local timezone in order for the  -f
       and -u to operate correctly.  See the description of -f above for details.  This variable may
       also  be  necessary  to  get  timestamps  of  extracted files to be set correctly.  The WIN32
       (Win9x/ME/NT4/2K/XP/2K3) port of unzip gets the timezone configuration from the registry, as‐
       suming it is correctly set in the Control Panel.  The TZ variable is ignored for this port.

DECRYPTION
       Encrypted archives are fully supported by Info-ZIP software, but due to United States  export
       restrictions,  de-/encryption  support  might  be disabled in your compiled binary.  However,
       since spring 2000, US export restrictions have been liberated, and our source archives do now
       include full crypt code.  In case you need binary distributions with crypt  support  enabled,
       see  the  file ``WHERE'' in any Info-ZIP source or binary distribution for locations both in‐
       side and outside the US.

       Some compiled versions of unzip may not support decryption.  To check  a  version  for  crypt
       support,  either attempt to test or extract an encrypted archive, or else check unzip's diag‐
       nostic screen (see the -v option above) for ``[decryption]'' as one of the  special  compila‐
       tion options.

       As  noted above, the -P option may be used to supply a password on the command line, but at a
       cost in security.  The preferred decryption method is simply to extract normally; if  a  zip‐
       file  member  is encrypted, unzip will prompt for the password without echoing what is typed.
       unzip continues to use the same password as long as it appears to  be  valid,  by  testing  a
       12-byte  header on each file.  The correct password will always check out against the header,
       but there is a 1-in-256 chance that an incorrect password will as well.  (This is a  security
       feature  of the PKWARE zipfile format; it helps prevent brute-force attacks that might other‐
       wise gain a large speed advantage by testing only the header.)  In the case that an incorrect
       password is given but it passes the header test anyway, either an incorrect CRC will be  gen‐
       erated for the extracted data or else unzip will fail during the extraction because the ``de‐
       crypted'' bytes do not constitute a valid compressed data stream.

       If  the  first  password  fails  the header check on some file, unzip will prompt for another
       password, and so on until all files are extracted.  If a password is not  known,  entering  a
       null password (that is, just a carriage return or ``Enter'') is taken as a signal to skip all
       further  prompting.   Only  unencrypted files in the archive(s) will thereafter be extracted.
       (In fact, that's not quite true; older versions of zip(1) and zipcloak(1) allowed null  pass‐
       words,  so  unzip checks each encrypted file to see if the null password works.  This may re‐
       sult in ``false positives'' and extraction errors, as noted above.)

       Archives encrypted with 8-bit passwords (for example, passwords with accented European  char‐
       acters)  may  not be portable across systems and/or other archivers.  This problem stems from
       the use of multiple encoding methods for such characters, including Latin-1 (ISO 8859-1)  and
       OEM  code  page 850.  DOS PKZIP 2.04g uses the OEM code page; Windows PKZIP 2.50 uses Latin-1
       (and is therefore incompatible with DOS PKZIP); Info-ZIP uses the OEM code page on DOS,  OS/2
       and  Win3.x  ports  but  ISO coding (Latin-1 etc.) everywhere else; and Nico Mak's WinZip 6.x
       does not allow 8-bit passwords at all.  UnZip 5.3 (or newer)  attempts  to  use  the  default
       character  set  first (e.g., Latin-1), followed by the alternate one (e.g., OEM code page) to
       test passwords.  On EBCDIC systems, if both of these fail, EBCDIC encoding will be tested  as
       a  last  resort.   (EBCDIC  is  not  tested on non-EBCDIC systems, because there are no known
       archivers that encrypt using EBCDIC encoding.)  ISO character encodings  other  than  Latin-1
       are  not  supported.  The new addition of (partially) Unicode (resp.  UTF-8) support in UnZip
       6.0 has not yet been adapted to the encryption password handling in unzip.  On  systems  that
       use  UTF-8  as native character encoding, unzip simply tries decryption with the native UTF-8
       encoded password; the built-in attempts to check the password in translated encoding have not
       yet been adapted for UTF-8 support and will consequently fail.

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 indicating whether the archive is OK  or
       not:

       unzip -tq letters

       To test all zipfiles in the current directory, printing only the summaries:

       unzip -tq \*.zip

       (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 examples  below.)  To  ex‐
       tract  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

       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  direc‐
       tory:

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

       (the double quotes are necessary only in Unix and only if globbing is turned on).  To extract
       all FORTRAN and C source files, regardless of case (e.g., both *.c and *.C, and any makefile,
       Makefile, MAKEFILE or similar):

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

       To extract any such files but convert any uppercase MS-DOS or VMS names to lowercase and con‐
       vert the line-endings of all of the files to the local standard (without respect to any files
       that might be marked ``binary''):

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

       To  extract only newer versions of the files already in the current directory, without query‐
       ing (NOTE:  be careful of unzipping  in  one  timezone  a  zipfile  created  in  another--ZIP
       archives  other than those created by Zip 2.1 or later 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

       To display a diagnostic screen showing which unzip and zipinfo options are stored in environ‐
       ment variables, whether decryption support was compiled in, the compiler with which unzip was
       compiled, etc.:

       unzip -v

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

       unzip -l file.zip

       To do a doubly quiet listing:

       unzip -ql file.zip

       (Note that the ``.zip'' is generally not necessary.)  To do a standard listing:

       unzip --ql file.zip
       or
       unzip -l-q file.zip
       or
       unzip -l--q file.zip
       (Extra minuses in options 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 simply type ``tt
       zipfile'' to test an archive, something that is worth making a habit of doing.  With luck un‐
       zip will report ``No errors detected in compressed data of zipfile.zip,'' after which one may
       breathe a sigh of relief.

       The  maintainer  also finds it useful to set the UNZIP environment variable to ``-aL'' and is
       tempted to add ``-C'' as well.  His ZIPINFO variable is set to ``-z''.

DIAGNOSTICS
       The exit status (or error level) approximates the exit codes defined by PKWARE and  takes  on
       the following values, except under VMS:

              0      normal; no errors or warnings detected.

              1      one  or more warning errors were encountered, but processing completed success‐
                     fully anyway.  This includes zipfiles where one or more files was  skipped  due
                     to unsupported compression method or encryption with an unknown password.

              2      a  generic  error in the zipfile format was detected.  Processing may have com‐
                     pleted successfully anyway; some broken zipfiles  created  by  other  archivers
                     have simple work-arounds.

              3      a  severe error in the zipfile format was detected.  Processing probably failed
                     immediately.

              4      unzip was unable to allocate memory for one or more buffers during program ini‐
                     tialization.

              5      unzip was unable to allocate memory or unable to obtain a tty to read  the  de‐
                     cryption password(s).

              6      unzip was unable to allocate memory during decompression to disk.

              7      unzip was unable to allocate memory during in-memory decompression.

              8      [currently not used]

              9      the specified zipfiles were not found.

              10     invalid options were specified on the command line.

              11     no matching files were found.

              50     the disk is (or was) full during extraction.

              51     the end of the ZIP archive was encountered prematurely.

              80     the user aborted unzip prematurely with control-C (or similar)

              81     testing  or  extraction of one or more files failed due to unsupported compres‐
                     sion methods or unsupported decryption.

              82     no files were found due to bad decryption password(s).  (If even  one  file  is
                     successfully processed, however, the exit status is 1.)

       VMS interprets standard Unix (or PC) return values as other, scarier-looking things, so unzip
       instead  maps them into VMS-style status codes.  The current mapping is as follows:   1 (suc‐
       cess) for normal exit,  0x7fff0001  for  warning  errors,  and  (0x7fff000?  +  16*normal_un‐
       zip_exit_status)  for  all  other errors, where the `?' is 2 (error) for unzip values 2, 9-11
       and 80-82, and 4 (fatal error) for the remaining ones (3-8, 50, 51).  In addition, there is a
       compilation option to expand upon this behavior:  defining RETURN_CODES results in  a  human-
       readable explanation of what the error status means.

BUGS
       Multi-part  archives  are not yet supported, except in conjunction with zip.  (All parts must
       be concatenated together in order, and then ``zip -F'' (for zip 2.x) or ``zip -FF'' (for  zip
       3.x) must be performed on the concatenated archive in order to ``fix'' it.  Also, zip 3.0 and
       later can combine multi-part (split) archives into a combined single-file archive using ``zip
       -s-  inarchive  -O outarchive''.  See the zip 3 manual page for more information.)  This will
       definitely be corrected in the next major release.

       Archives read from standard input are not yet supported, except with funzip  (and  then  only
       the first member of the archive can be extracted).

       Archives  encrypted  with 8-bit passwords (e.g., passwords with accented European characters)
       may not be portable across systems and/or other archivers.  See the discussion in  DECRYPTION
       above.

       unzip's  -M  (``more'')  option  tries to take into account automatic wrapping of long lines.
       However, the code may fail to detect the correct wrapping locations.  First,  TAB  characters
       (and  similar  control  sequences)  are  not taken into account, they are handled as ordinary
       printable characters.  Second, depending on the actual system / OS port, unzip may not detect
       the true screen geometry but rather rely on "commonly used" default dimensions.  The  correct
       handling  of  tabs would require the implementation of a query for the actual tabulator setup
       on the output console.

       Dates, times and permissions of stored directories are not restored except  under  Unix.  (On
       Windows NT and successors, timestamps are now restored.)

       [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, older  versions  of
       unzip  may  hang  the system, requiring a reboot.  This problem appears to be fixed, but con‐
       trol-C (or control-Break) can still be used to terminate unzip.

       Under DEC Ultrix, unzip would sometimes fail on long zipfiles (bad  CRC,  not  always  repro‐
       ducible).   This  was  apparently due either to a hardware bug (cache memory) or an operating
       system bug (improper handling of page faults?).  Since Ultrix has been abandoned in favor  of
       Digital Unix (OSF/1), this may not be an issue anymore.

       [Unix] Unix special files such as FIFO buffers (named pipes), block devices and character de‐
       vices  are  not  restored  even if they are somehow represented in the zipfile, nor are hard-
       linked files relinked.  Basically the only file types restored by unzip  are  regular  files,
       directories and symbolic (soft) links.

       [OS/2]  Extended  attributes for existing directories are only updated if the -o (``overwrite
       all'') option is given.  This is a limitation of the operating  system;  because  directories
       only  have  a  creation  time associated with them, unzip has no way to determine whether the
       stored attributes are newer or older than those on disk.  In practice this may  mean  a  two-
       pass approach is required:  first unpack the archive normally (with or without freshening/up‐
       dating  existing  files),  then  overwrite  just  the directory entries (e.g., ``unzip -o foo
       */'').

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

       [VMS] When the file being extracted already exists, unzip's query only allows skipping, over‐
       writing  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(1), zip(1), zipcloak(1), zipgrep(1), zipinfo(1), zipnote(1), zipsplit(1)

URL
       The Info-ZIP home page is currently at
       http://www.info-zip.org/pub/infozip/
       or
       ftp://ftp.info-zip.org/pub/infozip/ .

AUTHORS
       The primary Info-ZIP authors (current semi-active members of the Zip-Bugs workgroup) are:  Ed
       Gordon  (Zip,  general  maintenance,  shared  code,  Zip64,  Win32, Unix, Unicode); Christian
       Spieler (UnZip maintenance coordination, VMS, MS-DOS, Win32, shared code, general Zip and Un‐
       Zip integration and optimization); Onno van der Linden (Zip); Mike White (Win32, Windows GUI,
       Windows DLLs); Kai Uwe Rommel (OS/2, Win32); Steven M. Schweda (VMS,  Unix,  support  of  new
       features);  Paul Kienitz (Amiga, Win32, Unicode); Chris Herborth (BeOS, QNX, Atari); Jonathan
       Hudson (SMS/QDOS); Sergio Monesi (Acorn RISC OS); Harald Denker (Atari, MVS); John Bush  (So‐
       laris,  Amiga);  Hunter  Goatley  (VMS,  Info-ZIP Site maintenance); Steve Salisbury (Win32);
       Steve Miller (Windows CE GUI), Johnny Lee (MS-DOS, Win32,  Zip64);  and  Dave  Smith  (Tandem
       NSK).

       The following people were former members of the Info-ZIP development group and provided major
       contributions  to  key parts of the current code: Greg ``Cave Newt'' Roelofs (UnZip, unshrink
       decompression); Jean-loup Gailly (deflate compression); Mark  Adler  (inflate  decompression,
       fUnZip).

       The  author  of  the  original unzip code upon which Info-ZIP's was based is Samuel H. Smith;
       Carl Mascott did the first Unix port; and David P.  Kirschbaum organized and led Info-ZIP  in
       its  early  days with Keith Petersen hosting the original mailing list at WSMR-SimTel20.  The
       full list of contributors to UnZip has grown quite large; please refer to the  CONTRIBS  file
       in the UnZip source distribution for a relatively complete version.

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)
       v5.0   21 Aug 92   Info-ZIP (Zip-Bugs subgroup, GRR)
       v5.01  15 Jan 93   Info-ZIP (Zip-Bugs subgroup, GRR)
       v5.1    7 Feb 94   Info-ZIP (Zip-Bugs subgroup, GRR)
       v5.11   2 Aug 94   Info-ZIP (Zip-Bugs subgroup, GRR)
       v5.12  28 Aug 94   Info-ZIP (Zip-Bugs subgroup, GRR)
       v5.2   30 Apr 96   Info-ZIP (Zip-Bugs subgroup, GRR)
       v5.3   22 Apr 97   Info-ZIP (Zip-Bugs subgroup, GRR)
       v5.31  31 May 97   Info-ZIP (Zip-Bugs subgroup, GRR)
       v5.32   3 Nov 97   Info-ZIP (Zip-Bugs subgroup, GRR)
       v5.4   28 Nov 98   Info-ZIP (Zip-Bugs subgroup, SPC)
       v5.41  16 Apr 00   Info-ZIP (Zip-Bugs subgroup, SPC)
       v5.42  14 Jan 01   Info-ZIP (Zip-Bugs subgroup, SPC)
       v5.5   17 Feb 02   Info-ZIP (Zip-Bugs subgroup, SPC)
       v5.51  22 May 04   Info-ZIP (Zip-Bugs subgroup, SPC)
       v5.52  28 Feb 05   Info-ZIP (Zip-Bugs subgroup, SPC)
       v6.0   20 Apr 09   Info-ZIP (Zip-Bugs subgroup, SPC)

Info-ZIP                                20 April 2009 (v6.0)                                UNZIP(1)
UNZIP(1)
NAME SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION ARGUMENTS OPTIONS
-Z zipinfo(1) mode. If the first option on the command line is -Z, the remaining options -A [OS/2, Unix DLL] print extended help for the DLL's programming interface (API). -c extract files to stdout/screen (``CRT''). This option is similar to the -p option ex‐ -f freshen existing files, i.e., extract only those files that already exist on disk and -l list archive files (short format). The names, uncompressed file sizes and modifica‐ -p extract files to pipe (stdout). Nothing but the file data is sent to stdout, and the -t test archive files. This option extracts each specified file in memory and compares -T [most OSes] set the timestamp on the archive(s) to that of the newest file in each -u update existing files and create new ones if needed. This option performs the same -v list archive files (verbose format) or show diagnostic version info. This option has -z display only the archive comment.
MODIFIERS
-a convert text files. Ordinarily all files are extracted exactly as they are stored (as -b [general] treat all files as binary (no text conversions). This is a shortcut for -b [Tandem] force the creation files with filecode type 180 ('C') when extracting Zip en‐ -b [VMS] auto-convert binary files (see -a above) to fixed-length, 512-byte record for‐ -B [when compiled with UNIXBACKUP defined] save a backup copy of each overwritten file. -C use case-insensitive matching for the selection of archive entries from the command- -D skip restoration of timestamps for extracted items. Normally, unzip tries to restore -E [MacOS only] display contents of MacOS extra field during restore operation. -F [Acorn only] suppress removal of NFS filetype extension from stored filenames. -F [non-Acorn systems supporting long filenames with embedded commas, and only if com‐ -i [MacOS only] ignore filenames stored in MacOS extra fields. Instead, the most compati‐ -I CHARSET -j junk paths. The archive's directory structure is not recreated; all files are de‐ -J [BeOS only] junk file attributes. The file's BeOS file attributes are not restored, -J [MacOS only] ignore MacOS extra fields. All Macintosh specific info is skipped. Data- -K [AtheOS, BeOS, Unix only] retain SUID/SGID/Tacky file attributes. Without this flag, -L convert to lowercase any filename originating on an uppercase-only operating system or -M pipe all output through an internal pager similar to the Unix more(1) command. At the -n never overwrite existing files. If a file already exists, skip the extraction of that -N [Amiga] extract file comments as Amiga filenotes. File comments are created with the -o overwrite existing files without prompting. This is a dangerous option, so use it -O CHARSET -P password -q perform operations quietly (-qq = even quieter). Ordinarily unzip prints the names of -s [OS/2, NT, MS-DOS] convert spaces in filenames to underscores. Since all PC operating -S [VMS] convert text files (-a, -aa) into Stream_LF record format, instead of the text- -U [UNICODE_SUPPORT only] modify or disable UTF-8 handling. When UNICODE_SUPPORT is -V retain (VMS) file version numbers. VMS files can be stored with a version number, in -W [only when WILD_STOP_AT_DIR compile-time option enabled] modifies the pattern matching -X [VMS, Unix, OS/2, NT, Tandem] restore owner/protection info (UICs and ACL entries) un‐ -Y [VMS] treat archived file name endings of ``.nnn'' (where ``nnn'' is a decimal num‐ -2 [VMS] force unconditionally conversion of file names to ODS2-compatible names. The
ENVIRONMENT OPTIONS
-n modifiers: make unzip auto-convert text files by default, make it convert filenames from
DECRYPTION EXAMPLES TIPS DIAGNOSTICS BUGS SEE ALSO URL AUTHORS VERSIONS

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