Read specific file from a zip archive without extracting Post: 302263632

10 More Discussions You Might Find Interesting

1. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Is extracting specific files from a zip file possible?

If a zip file contains several zip files, but if the file names of the files needed are known, is there a variation of the unzip command that will allow those few (individual) files to be extracted? --- Example: Zip file name: zip.zip unzip -l zip.zip will display file01, file02, file03, etc....

2. AIX

Updating a File in a Zip Archive

Hello everyone, I have a script that pulls a text file out of a zip archive and updates the file. What I need to do is put it back in the zip archive and replace the old one, but I am having no luck. Everything I search on forums or internet points to the command zip, that command is not...

3. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Extracting from a tar archive file

Can I extract files from an archive file (tar), where the filename includes the full directory path, to a different directory? For example the archive files may have a filename of /SrcFiles/XXX/filename.dat and I want to extract it to /SrcFiles/YYY/filename.dat. Since the archive file was...

4. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

unzip .zip file and list the files included in the .zip archive

Hello, I am trying to return the name of the resulting file from a .zip archive file using unix unzip command. unzip c07212007.cef7081.zip Archive: c07212007.cef7081.zip SecureZIP for z/OS by PKWARE inflating: CEP/CEM7080/PPVBILL/PASS/G0063V00 I used the following command to unzip in...

5. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Zip file with specific name

Hi, How could compress a file with a specific name. For example if I put the following: gzip -f file.dat I compressed it with the same file name to compress, "file.dat.gz". How could compress it with the name I want for example test.gz. Thanks.

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

Extracting from archive | compressing to new archive

Hi there, I have one huge archive (it's a system image). I need sometime to create smaller archives with only one or two file from my big archive. So I'm looking for a command that extracts files from an archive and pipe them to another one. I tried the following : tar -xzOf oldarchive.tgz...

7. Homework & Coursework Questions

Creating and extracting archive file

Use and complete the template provided. The entire template must be completed. If you don't, your post may be deleted! 1. The problem statement, all variables and given/known data: Hi there, I wish to create a single .tar file of the current directory but have literally no idea on where to...

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

Zip a list of specific files to an archive

Hi all, i've got the following problem: We've got a shell-script, that creates some different files based on several criteria given, using a sql-script. After creating, those files are individually zipped and stored, then sent to a ftp-server. This is all working since 2010, but now they have...

9. Shell Programming and Scripting

Grep in a specific file in an archive

Hi all, I need to do a grep in a specific file inside multiple (tar.gz) archives. I know zgrep can grep in an archive, but as far as I know, I can't supply a specific filename from inside the archive to grep in. Is there any other way do to this, besides extracting it and then...

10. UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers

Linux read specific content file from tar.gz files without extracting

hello i wish to write the result of these below conditions in a file: 1. in a specific folder, i have many tar.gz files. 2. each tar.gz file contains ".dat" file in sub folders. 3. i wish to get the full path of these .dat files, if i find in it a specific word ("ERROR24"). 4. all this...

LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN

zip_set_file_comment

ZIP_SET_FILE_COMMENT(3) 				     Library Functions Manual					   ZIP_SET_FILE_COMMENT(3)

NAME

       zip_set_file_comment - set comment for file in zip

LIBRARY

       libzip (-lzip)

SYNOPSIS

       #include <zip.h>

       int zip_set_file_comment(struct zip *archive, zip_uint64_t index); "const char *comment" "int len"

DESCRIPTION

       The  zip_set_file_comment function sets the comment for the file at position index in the zip archive to comment of length len.	If comment
       is NULL and len is 0, the file comment will be removed.

RETURN VALUES

       Upon successful completion 0 is returned.  Otherwise, -1 is returned and the error information in archive is set to indicate the error.

ERRORS

       zip_set_file_comment fails if:

	      [ZIP_ER_INVAL]
		  index is not a valid file index in archive, or len is less than 0 or longer than the	maximum  comment  length  in  a  zip  file
		  (65535).

	      [ZIP_ER_MEMORY]
		  Required memory could not be allocated.

SEE ALSO

       libzip(3), zip_get_archive_comment(3), zip_get_file_comment(3), zip_set_archive_comment(3)

AUTHORS

       Dieter Baron <dillo@giga.or.at> and Thomas Klausner <tk@giga.or.at>

NiH								  March 10, 2009					   ZIP_SET_FILE_COMMENT(3)

10 More Discussions You Might Find Interesting

1. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Is extracting specific files from a zip file possible?

Discussion started by: HLee1981

2. AIX

Updating a File in a Zip Archive

Discussion started by: dbridle

3. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Extracting from a tar archive file

Discussion started by: nmalencia

4. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

unzip .zip file and list the files included in the .zip archive

Discussion started by: oracledev