ARCHIVED: On Quarry at IU, what ZIP utilities are available?

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At Indiana University, the Quarry cluster's operating system, Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 6 (RHEL 6), includes the latest versions of Info-ZIP's Zip and UnZip command-line utilities for handling ZIP archives.

The Zip package provides these executables:

  • zip
  • zipcloak
  • zipnote
  • zipsplit

The UnZip package provides these executables:

  • funzip
  • unzip
  • unzipsfx
  • zipgrep
  • zipinfo

For more on each utility, view its manual page. At the command prompt, enter the man command followed by the utility name, for example:

  man funzip
  man unzipsfx

Additionally, see the Info-ZIP home page.

Related documents

About the .Z file extension Make better use of your disk space in Unix About compressed files in Unix

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