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vy32
Asked: 2012-03-04 12:19:55 +0800 CST

Wanted: Unix zip command-line program with zip64 support

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Is there a Unix command-line program that implements ZIP with ZIP64 support? The standard zip program won't ZIP files bigger than 2**32 bytes.

I don't want to use .tar.gz format, because with ZIP I can access the files without decompressing the entire archive.

I don't want to use 7zip because there is no native Python support for 7zip archives.

Thanks.

32bit-64bit compression

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  1. Best Answer

    Last time I checked Info-zip was available for just about every OS ever invented and it does do zip64. You may have to build it yourself for your particular system. You don't say which Unix you've got but there is a high chance they are pre-build packages available for yours already.

    Just check out the home-page

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  2. Debian (and every other major Linux distribution) package info-zip , which supports zip64, as zip/unzip, so that should be easier to get nowadays. They also fix security issues unfixed in upstream.

    https://packages.debian.org/buster/unzip

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