Thursday 31 December 2015

Using unzip on Mac OS X with L-A-R-G-E files

Whilst trying to unpack a large >4 GB .ZIP file: -

unzip /Volumes/DaveHay/Software/ODM87/Fixes/Windows/8.7.1-WS-ODM_DC-WIN-FP001.zip 

I saw this: -

Archive:  /Volumes/DaveHay/Software/ODM87/Fixes/Windows/8.7.1-WS-ODM_DC-WIN-FP001.zip
warning [/Volumes/DaveHay/Software/ODM87/Fixes/Windows/8.7.1-WS-ODM_DC-WIN-FP001.zip]:  4294967296 extra bytes at beginning or within zipfile
  (attempting to process anyway)
file #1:  bad zipfile offset (local header sig):  4294967296
  (attempting to re-compensate)
   creating: 8700/


I'm using the stock unzip command that comes with Mac OS X 10.11.2: -

unzip -v

UnZip 5.52 of 28 February 2005, by Info-ZIP.  Maintained by C. Spieler.  Send
bug reports using http://www.info-zip.org/zip-bug.html; see README for details.

Latest sources and executables are at ftp://ftp.info-zip.org/pub/infozip/ ;
see ftp://ftp.info-zip.org/pub/infozip/UnZip.html for other sites.

Compiled with gcc 4.2.1 Compatible Apple LLVM 7.0.0 (clang-700.0.59.1) for Unix on Jul 31 2015.

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I've seen this before, albeit on AIX - I solved it then using the jar command, as shipped with IBM Java7.

As ever, the answer was online: -


I managed to unzip it with tar.

tar xzvf 2015-09-24-raspbian-jessie.zip

Requires no installation of additional software

I tried the same thing: -

tar xvzf /Volumes/DaveHay/Software/ODM87/Fixes/Windows/8.7.1-WS-ODM_DC-WIN-FP001.zip 

which worked a treat.

Thanks Internet :-)

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