UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi,
i transferred a .zip file from windows to Unix.
i'm getting error while doing unzip in Unix
like
command :

Code:

bash-3.2$ unzip ******.zip

message :

Code:

Archive:  *******.zip
  End-of-central-directory signature not found.  Either this file is not
  a zipfile, or it constitutes one disk of a multi-part archive.  In the
  latter case the central directory and zipfile comment will be found on
  the last disk(s) of this archive.
unzip:  cannot find zipfile directory in one of PremiseNew.zip or
        PremiseNew.zip.zip, and cannot find PremiseNew.zip.ZIP, period.

So tell me why i'm getting these type of error

Make sure zip file is copied and it is not corrupted file.
try md5sum before and after copy, it should match.

other possibility is it may not be a zip file.
use

Code:

file command

to identify the filetype

Code:

$ file <your_input_filename>

The command: unzip ******.zip is strange, and will not do what you want if there is more than one .zip file in the current directory. If there are multiple .zip archives and you want to extract all of the files contained in all of the zip archives, I believe the proper syntax would be:

Code:

unzip '*.zip'

(The quoting lets unzip perform the wildcard expansion instead of letting the shell do it. If the shell does the wildcard expansion and there is more than one .zip archive, unzip will try to extract all but the 1st .zip archive from the 1st .zip archive.)