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yukashima huksay
Asked: 2018-01-05 03:12:06 +0800 CST

How to unzip only the first few lines of a zip archive?

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I have a zipped text file a.zip I want to read the first 10 lines of it. Is it possible to do that without unzipping the whole file?

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  1. Best Answer

    This simple pipe-script works for me:

    zcat a.zip | head -n 10

    Here:

    • zcat a.zip - unpacks zip-archive and sends its contents to standard output
    • | pipes zcat output to head input
    • head -n 10 - shows first 10 lines from its standard input
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