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Old 01-22-2009
how to unzip 17GB .zip file on UNIX?
I have a .zip file of size 17GB on Linux. As per my knowledge unzip(before 6.X version) doesn't work with file size greater than 4GB. I tried my best to uncompress it but didn't successed. Can anybody help me out with this? Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

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Chandu
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Old 01-22-2009
I've run into this with Solaris and AIX. The gunzip command, which supports large files, will uncompress the first file in a ZIP archive ignoring all others (if present):

gunzip -c file.zip > filename

You're in luck if zip was used for compression only -- that is, one file. If multiple files are in the archive, then you will probably need to transfer the file to *gulp* a Windows platform, unzip it there using WinZIP, and return the constituent files to your Linux box.
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Old 01-22-2009
On my linux boxed I use 7-Zip.

It will unzip ZIP, GZIP, BZIP2 and TAR.

It is one of very few I have found, that will unzip multi-part zip/rar files on linux.
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