Questions tagged [zip]
Compression and archive format that stores one or more files into a single file, usually with a .zip file extension.
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Excluding directory from zip cli command [duplicate]
NOTE TO MODERATOR:
While it is true that there is a question out there that has several conflicting answers to this very question, as I have pointed out in a comment to that question, none of those ...
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Tar extract doesn't work on Zip repos with submodules [closed]
Tar extract doesn't work on Zip repos with submodules:
curl -L https://github.com/org/repo-with-submodules/archive/refs/heads/main.zip -o ~/Downloads/repo-main.zip
tar -xvf ~/Downloads/repo-main.zip -...
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extract a multifile .zip archive on Linux (with gunzip)
I have a large file in Wondows and neetd to transport it to a Linux server via the linux /tmp folder that has onlz limited capacity.
In order to do so I created a zip with 7zip on my Windows host (...
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Batch how to compress an .zip folder without root folder while also being portable
I'm trying to compress multiple separate folders to .zip (whether it be 7zip or PowerShell or tar)
as well as being portable (as in the .bat can be anywhere)
yes I looked at other posts but none of ...
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Hide files and folders with same name
I ran into an issue where I had to restart my computer during a large extraction process involving many zip files :(.
All the zip files contain a folder that has the name of the zip file (minus .zip)
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Extracting multiple archives with WinRAR where some are missing parts
I have a folder with a few thousand rar and zip files. Some are separated into multiple parts and others are not. My goal is to extract all of the files. The files are large and I expect this may take ...
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7-Zip Fails to Properly Unzip File via Context Menu and CMD, But Works in GUI
I'm currently encountering a problem with a .zip archive made using 7zip. Whenever I try to unzip it using the context menu (right click -> 7zip -> extract here) or using a bat script (or cmd) &...
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Changed file and folder names within a compressed .zip email attachment received from Outlook
I am using Outlook and I received an email containing a compressed .zip file. When I download and try to extract its contents, the names of all the files and folders contained inside the compressed ....
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Windows 11 PowerShell zip files except the excluded file and folder paths
I'm trying to zip using PowerShell but it's not excluding the files listed in the excluded_paths. I want to especially exclude all __pycache__ folder occurrences that can be nested in different levels ...
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File not found or no read permission when trying to compress zip
On Windows 11, when I right click a folder and then choose Compress to Zip file, I get error. Although it makes no sense to close all programs that use this folder, I did close everything and nothing ...
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How to unzip a zip from macOS on Windows and is the “__MACOSX” folder in a Mac-made Zip the right place to look for the Zip contents?
Somebody sent me a bunch of PDF files as a Zip from their Mac laptop. Now I am trying to extract the PDF files.
I am on Windows 10 I can extract a folder __MACOSX and inside it, a folder containing ...
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Is there any way to compare zipped folders to unzipped file directory?
I know that Windows Explorer, 7-Zip, Beyond Compare, and others can look into a zipped directory to see the file structure and file names.
Is there any way to compare those file names to the unzipped ...
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WinRAR - Span Archives instead of splitting (Internet Archive)
I'm having a small issue trying to back up data to the Internet Archive.
I have tried to used 7zip to split files into certain sizes (such as 7G or 25G) to upload better, but IA won't accept ...
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Exclude all folders containing "discarded" with 7z
When I do
7z a test.zip -x!*discarded* test
with
test/
test/a.txt
test/subfolder/
test/subfolder/a.txt
test/subfolder/discarded/
test/subfolder/discarded/a.txt
test/subfolder2/a.txt
test/subfolder2/...
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Determine format of uncompressed ZIP file with ffprobe
I am working on a project where I need to handle ZIP archives that contain media files. Specifically, I have two files, video1.hevc and video2.mp4. For testing purposes, I created two ZIP archives ...
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