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ZIPINFO(1)							    ZIPINFO(1)



NAME
       zipinfo - list detailed information about a ZIP archive

SYNOPSIS
       zipinfo [-12smlvhMtTz] file[.zip] [file(s) ...] [-x xfile(s) ...]

       unzip -Z [-12smlvhMtTz] file[.zip] [file(s) ...] [-x xfile(s) ...]

DESCRIPTION
       zipinfo	lists technical information about files in a ZIP archive, most
       commonly found on  MS-DOS  systems.   Such  information	includes  file
       access permissions, encryption status, type of compression, version and
       operating system or file system of compressing program, and  the  like.
       The  default  behavior (with no options) is to list single-line entries
       for each file in the archive, with header and trailer  lines  providing
       summary	information  for  the  entire  archive.  The format is a cross
       between Unix ls -l and unzip -v output.	See DETAILED  DESCRIP
       TION  below.   Note  that  zipinfo  is the same program as unzip (under
       Unix, a link to it); on some systems, however, zipinfo support may have
       been omitted when unzip was compiled.

ARGUMENTS
       file[.zip]
	      Path  of	the  ZIP  archive(s).	If the file specification is a
	      wildcard, each matching file is processed in an order determined
	      by the operating system (or file system).  Only the filename can
	      be a wildcard; the path itself cannot.  Wildcard expressions are
	      similar to Unix egrep(1) (regular) expressions and may contain:

	      *      matches a sequence of 0 or more characters

	      ?      matches exactly 1 character

	      [...]  matches  any  single character found inside the brackets;
		     ranges are specified by a beginning character, a  hyphen,
		     and  an  ending  character.  If an exclamation point or a
		     caret (! or ^) follows the  left  bracket,  then  the
		     range  of	characters within the brackets is complemented
		     (that is,	anything  except  the  characters  inside  the
		     brackets  is  considered a match).  To specify a verbatim
		     left bracket, the three-character sequence [[] has to
		     be used.

	      (Be  sure  to quote any character that might otherwise be inter
	      preted or modified by the operating system,  particularly  under
	      Unix  and  VMS.)	 If no matches are found, the specification is
	      assumed to be a literal filename; and if that  also  fails,  the
	      suffix  .zip  is	appended.  Note that self-extracting ZIP files
	      are supported, as with any other ZIP archive; just  specify  the
	      .exe suffix (if any) explicitly.

       [file(s)]
	      An  optional  list of archive members to be processed, separated
	      by spaces.  (VMS versions  compiled  with  VMSCLI  defined  must
	      delimit  files with commas instead.)  Regular expressions (wild
	      cards) may be used to match multiple members; see above.	Again,
	      be sure to quote expressions that would otherwise be expanded or
	      modified by the operating system.

       [-x xfile(s)]
	      An optional list of archive members to be excluded from process
	      ing.

OPTIONS
       -1     list  filenames  only,  one  per line.  This option excludes all
	      others;  headers,  trailers  and	zipfile  comments  are	 never
	      printed.	It is intended for use in Unix shell scripts.

       -2     list  filenames  only,  one  per	line,  but allow headers (-h),
	      trailers (-t) and zipfile comments (-z), as well.   This	option
	      may  be  useful in cases where the stored filenames are particu
	      larly long.

       -s     list zipfile info in short Unix ls -l format.  This  is  the
	      default behavior; see below.

       -m     list zipfile info in medium Unix ls -l format.  Identical to
	      the -s output, except that the compression factor, expressed  as
	      a percentage, is also listed.

       -l     list  zipfile  info  in  long Unix ls -l format.	As with -m
	      except that the compressed size (in bytes) is printed instead of
	      the compression ratio.

       -v     list zipfile information in verbose, multi-page format.

       -h     list  header line.  The archive name, actual size (in bytes) and
	      total number of files is printed.

       -M     pipe all output through an internal pager similar  to  the  Unix
	      more(1)  command.   At the end of a screenful of output, zipinfo
	      pauses with a --More-- prompt; the  next	screenful  may	be
	      viewed  by  pressing  the  Enter	(Return) key or the space bar.
	      zipinfo can be terminated by pressing the q key and, on some
	      systems, the Enter/Return key.  Unlike Unix more(1), there is no
	      forward-searching or editing capability.	Also, zipinfo  doesnt
	      notice if long lines wrap at the edge of the screen, effectively
	      resulting in the printing of two or more lines and  the  likeli
	      hood that some text will scroll off the top of the screen before
	      being viewed.  On some systems the number of available lines  on
	      the  screen  is  not detected, in which case zipinfo assumes the
	      height is 24 lines.

       -t     list totals for files listed or for all files.   The  number  of
	      files  listed,  their  uncompressed and compressed total sizes ,
	      and their overall compression factor is printed; or, if only the
	      totals  line is being printed, the values for the entire archive
	      are given.  The compressed total size does not  include  the  12
	      additional  header  bytes of each encrypted entry. Note that the
	      total compressed (data) size will never match the actual zipfile
	      size,  since  the  latter  includes  all of the internal zipfile
	      headers in addition to the compressed data.

       -T     print the file dates and times  in  a  sortable  decimal	format
	      (yymmdd.hhmmss).	 The  default  date format is a more standard,
	      human-readable version with abbreviated month names  (see  exam
	      ples below).

       -z     include the archive comment (if any) in the listing.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION
       zipinfo has a number of modes, and its behavior can be rather difficult
       to fathom if one isnt familiar with Unix ls(1) (or even	if  one  is).
       The default behavior is to list files in the following format:

  -rw-rws---  1.9 unx	 2802 t- defX 11-Aug-91 13:48 perms.2660

       The  last  three fields are the modification date and time of the file,
       and its name.  The case of the filename is respected; thus  files  that
       come  from MS-DOS PKZIP are always capitalized.	If the file was zipped
       with a stored directory name, that is also displayed  as  part  of  the
       filename.

       The  second  and  third	fields indicate that the file was zipped under
       Unix with version 1.9 of zip.  Since it comes from Unix, the file  per
       missions  at the beginning of the line are printed in Unix format.  The
       uncompressed file-size (2802 in this example) is the fourth field.

       The fifth field consists of two characters, either of which may take on
       several values.	The first character may be either t or b, indicat
       ing that zip believes the file to be text or binary, respectively;  but
       if  the	file is encrypted, zipinfo notes this fact by capitalizing the
       character (T or B).  The second character may  also  take  on  four
       values,	depending  on whether there is an extended local header and/or
       an extra  field	associated  with  the  file  (fully  explained	in
       PKWares	APPNOTE.TXT,  but  basically  analogous  to  pragmas  in ANSI
       C--i.e., they provide a standard way to include	non-standard  informa
       tion  in  the  archive).   If  neither  exists, the character will be a
       hyphen (-); if there is an extended local header but no extra  field,
       l;  if  the  reverse,  x; and if both exist, X.	Thus the file in
       this example is (probably) a text file, is not encrypted, and has  nei
       ther  an  extra	field nor an extended local header associated with it.
       The example below, on the other hand, is an encrypted binary file  with
       an extra field:

  RWD,R,R     0.9 vms	  168 Bx shrk  9-Aug-91 19:15 perms.0644

       Extra  fields  are  used for various purposes (see discussion of the -v
       option below) including the storage of VMS file	attributes,  which  is
       presumably  the case here.  Note that the file attributes are listed in
       VMS format.  Some other possibilities for  the  host  operating	system
       (which  is  actually  a	misnomer--host	file  system  is more correct)
       include OS/2 or NT with High Performance File  System  (HPFS),  MS-DOS,
       OS/2 or NT with File Allocation Table (FAT) file system, and Macintosh.
       These are denoted as follows:

  -rw-a--     1.0 hpf	 5358 Tl i4:3  4-Dec-91 11:33 longfilename.hpfs
  -r--ahs     1.1 fat	 4096 b- i4:2 14-Jul-91 12:58 EA DATA. SF
  --w-------  1.0 mac	17357 bx i8:2  4-May-92 04:02 unzip.macr

       File attributes in the first two cases are  indicated  in  a  Unix-like
       format,	where the seven subfields indicate whether the file:  (1) is a
       directory, (2) is readable (always true), (3) is writable, (4) is  exe
       cutable	(guessed on the basis of the extension--.exe, .com, .bat, .cmd
       and .btm files are assumed to be so), (5) has its archive bit set,  (6)
       is  hidden, and (7) is a system file.  Interpretation of Macintosh file
       attributes is unreliable because some Macintosh archivers  dont	store
       any attributes in the archive.

       Finally,  the sixth field indicates the compression method and possible
       sub-method used.  There are six methods known at present:  storing  (no
       compression),  reducing,  shrinking,  imploding, tokenizing (never pub
       licly released), and deflating.	In addition, there are four levels  of
       reducing  (1 through 4); four types of imploding (4K or 8K sliding dic
       tionary, and 2 or 3 Shannon-Fano trees); and four levels  of  deflating
       (superfast,  fast,  normal,  maximum  compression).  zipinfo represents
       these methods and their sub-methods  as	follows:   stor;  re:1,  re:2,
       etc.; shrk; i4:2, i8:3, etc.; tokn; and defS, defF, defN, and defX.

       The  medium  and long listings are almost identical to the short format
       except that they add information on the files compression.  The medium
       format  lists  the files compression factor as a percentage indicating
       the amount of space that has been removed:

  -rw-rws---  1.5 unx	 2802 t- 81% defX 11-Aug-91 13:48 perms.2660

       In this example, the file has been compressed by more than a factor  of
       five;  the compressed data are only 19% of the original size.  The long
       format gives the compressed files size in bytes, instead:

  -rw-rws---  1.5 unx	 2802 t-     538 defX 11-Aug-91 13:48 perms.2660

       In contrast to the unzip listings, the compressed size figures in  this
       listing	format	denote the complete size of compressed data, including
       the 12 extra header bytes in case of encrypted entries.

       Adding the -T option changes the file date and time to decimal format:

  -rw-rws---  1.5 unx	 2802 t-     538 defX 910811.134804 perms.2660

       Note that because of limitations in the MS-DOS  format  used  to  store
       file  times,  the  seconds  field is always rounded to the nearest even
       second.	For Unix files this is expected to change in  the  next  major
       releases of zip(1) and unzip.

       In  addition  to individual file information, a default zipfile listing
       also includes header and trailer lines:

  Archive:  OS2.zip   5453 bytes   5 files
  ,,rw,       1.0 hpf	  730 b- i4:3 26-Jun-92 23:40 Contents
  ,,rw,       1.0 hpf	 3710 b- i4:3 26-Jun-92 23:33 makefile.os2
  ,,rw,       1.0 hpf	 8753 b- i8:3 26-Jun-92 15:29 os2unzip.c
  ,,rw,       1.0 hpf	   98 b- stor 21-Aug-91 15:34 unzip.def
  ,,rw,       1.0 hpf	   95 b- stor 21-Aug-91 17:51 zipinfo.def
  5 files, 13386 bytes uncompressed, 4951 bytes compressed:  63.0%

       The header line gives the name of the archive, its total size, and  the
       total  number  of  files; the trailer gives the number of files listed,
       their total uncompressed size, and their  total	compressed  size  (not
       including  any  of  zips internal overhead).  If, however, one or more
       file(s) are provided, the header and  trailer  lines  are  not  listed.
       This  behavior  is  also similar to that of Unixs ls -l; it may be
       overridden by specifying the -h and -t options explicitly.  In  such  a
       case  the listing format must also be specified explicitly, since -h or
       -t (or both) in the absence of other  options  implies  that  ONLY  the
       header  or  trailer line (or both) is listed.  See the EXAMPLES section
       below for a semi-intelligible translation of this nonsense.

       The verbose listing is mostly self-explanatory.	 It  also  lists  file
       comments  and  the  zipfile comment, if any, and the type and number of
       bytes in any stored extra  fields.   Currently  known  types  of  extra
       fields  include	PKWAREs  authentication  (AV) info; OS/2 extended
       attributes; VMS filesystem info, both  PKWARE  and  Info-ZIP  versions;
       Macintosh  resource  forks;  Acorn/Archimedes  SparkFS info; and so on.
       (Note that in the case of OS/2 extended	attributes--perhaps  the  most
       common  use  of	zipfile  extra	fields--the  size of the stored EAs as
       reported by zipinfo may not match the number given by OS/2s  dir  com
       mand:  OS/2  always reports the number of bytes required in 16-bit for
       mat, whereas zipinfo always reports the 32-bit storage.)

       Again, the compressed size figures of the  individual  entries  include
       the  12	extra  header  bytes  for encrypted entries.  In contrast, the
       archive total compressed size and the average compression  ratio  shown
       in  the	summary bottom line are calculated without the extra 12 header
       bytes of encrypted entries.

ENVIRONMENT OPTIONS
       Modifying zipinfos default behavior via options placed in an  environ
       ment  variable  can  be	a bit complicated to explain, due to zipinfos
       attempts to handle various defaults in  an  intuitive,  yet  Unix-like,
       manner.	 (Try  not  to laugh.)	Nevertheless, there is some underlying
       logic.  In brief, there are three priority levels of options:   the
       default	options; environment options, which can override or add to the
       defaults; and explicit options given by the user, which can override or
       add to either of the above.

       The  default listing format, as noted above, corresponds roughly to the
       "zipinfo -hst" command (except  when  individual  zipfile  members  are
       specified).   A	user who prefers the long-listing format (-l) can make
       use of the zipinfos environment variable to change this default:

       Unix Bourne shell:
	      ZIPINFO=-l; export ZIPINFO

       Unix C shell:
	      setenv ZIPINFO -l

       OS/2 or MS-DOS:
	      set ZIPINFO=-l

       VMS (quotes for lowercase):
	      define ZIPINFO_OPTS "-l"

       If, in addition, the user dislikes the trailer line, zipinfos  concept
       of  negative  options may be used to override the default inclusion
       of the line.  This is accomplished by preceding	the  undesired	option
       with one or more minuses:  e.g., -l-t or --tl, in this example.
       The first hyphen is the regular switch character, but  the  one	before
       the  t  is  a  minus sign.  The dual use of hyphens may seem a little
       awkward, but its reasonably intuitive nonetheless:  simply ignore  the
       first  hyphen and go from there.  It is also consistent with the behav
       ior of the Unix command nice(1).

       As suggested above, the default variable names are ZIPINFO_OPTS for VMS
       (where  the  symbol  used to install zipinfo as a foreign command would
       otherwise be confused with the environment variable), and  ZIPINFO  for
       all other operating systems.  For compatibility with zip(1), ZIPINFOOPT
       is also accepted (dont ask).   If  both	ZIPINFO  and  ZIPINFOOPT  are
       defined,  however, ZIPINFO takes precedence.  unzips diagnostic option
       (-v with no zipfile name) can be used to check the values of  all  four
       possible unzip and zipinfo environment variables.

EXAMPLES
       To  get a basic, short-format listing of the complete contents of a ZIP
       archive storage.zip, with both header and totals lines,	use  only  the
       archive name as an argument to zipinfo:

	   zipinfo storage

       To produce a basic, long-format listing (not verbose), including header
       and totals lines, use -l:

	   zipinfo -l storage

       To list the complete contents of the archive without header and	totals
       lines, either negate the -h and -t options or else specify the contents
       explicitly:

	   zipinfo --h-t storage
	   zipinfo storage \*

       (where the backslash is required only  if  the  shell  would  otherwise
       expand  the * wildcard, as in Unix when globbing is turned on--double
       quotes around the asterisk would have worked as well).  To turn off the
       totals  line  by  default,  use	the  environment  variable (C shell is
       assumed here):

	   setenv ZIPINFO --t
	   zipinfo storage

       To get the full, short-format listing of the first example again, given
       that  the environment variable is set as in the previous example, it is
       necessary to specify the -s option explicitly, since the -t  option  by
       itself implies that ONLY the footer line is to be printed:

	   setenv ZIPINFO --t
	   zipinfo -t storage		 [only totals line]
	   zipinfo -st storage		 [full listing]

       The -s option, like -m and -l, includes headers and footers by default,
       unless otherwise specified.  Since the environment  variable  specified
       no  footers  and that has a higher precedence than the default behavior
       of -s, an explicit -t option was necessary to produce the full listing.
       Nothing	was  indicated about the header, however, so the -s option was
       sufficient.  Note that both the -h and -t options, when used  by  them
       selves  or  with  each  other,  override  any default listing of member
       files; only the header and/or footer are  printed.   This  behavior  is
       useful  when zipinfo is used with a wildcard zipfile specification; the
       contents of all zipfiles are then summarized with a single command.

       To list information on a single file within the archive, in medium for
       mat, specify the filename explicitly:

	   zipinfo -m storage unshrink.c

       The specification of any member file, as in this example, will override
       the default header and totals lines; only the single line  of  informa
       tion  about  the  requested  file will be printed.  This is intuitively
       what one would expect when requesting information about a single  file.
       For multiple files, it is often useful to know the total compressed and
       uncompressed size; in such cases -t may be specified explicitly:

	   zipinfo -mt storage "*.[ch]" Mak\*

       To get maximal information about  the  ZIP  archive,  use  the  verbose
       option.	 It  is  usually wise to pipe the output into a filter such as
       Unix more(1) if the operating system allows it:

	   zipinfo -v storage | more

       Finally, to see the most recently modified files in  the  archive,  use
       the  -T	option in conjunction with an external sorting utility such as
       Unix sort(1) (and sed(1) as well, in this example):

	   zipinfo -T storage | sort -nr -k 7 | sed 15q

       The -nr option to sort(1) tells it to sort numerically in reverse order
       rather  than  in textual order, and the -k 7 option tells it to sort on
       the seventh field.  This assumes the default short-listing  format;  if
       -m  or -l is used, the proper sort(1) option would be -k 8.  Older ver
       sions of sort(1) do not support the -k option, but you can use the tra
       ditional  +  option instead, e.g., +6 instead of -k 7.  The sed(1) com
       mand filters out all but the first 15 lines  of	the  listing.	Future
       releases  of  zipinfo may incorporate date/time and filename sorting as
       built-in options.

TIPS
       The author finds it convenient to define an alias  ii  for  zipinfo  on
       systems	that allow aliases (or, on other systems, copy/rename the exe
       cutable, create a link or create a command file with the name ii).  The
       ii  usage  parallels the common ll alias for long listings in Unix, and
       the similarity between the outputs of the two commands was intentional.

BUGS
       As  with  unzip, zipinfos -M (more) option is overly simplistic in
       its handling of screen output; as noted above, it fails to  detect  the
       wrapping  of  long  lines and may thereby cause lines at the top of the
       screen to be scrolled off before being read.  zipinfo should detect and
       treat  each  occurrence	of  line-wrap  as one additional line printed.
       This requires knowledge of the screens width as well  as  its  height.
       In addition, zipinfo should detect the true screen geometry on all sys
       tems.

       zipinfos listing-format behavior is unnecessarily complex  and  should
       be simplified.  (This is not to say that it will be.)


SEE ALSO
       ls(1),  funzip(1),  unzip(1),  unzipsfx(1),  zip(1),  zipcloak(1), zip
       note(1), zipsplit(1)

URL
       The Info-ZIP home page is currently at
	   http://www.info-zip.org/pub/infozip/
       or
	   ftp://ftp.info-zip.org/pub/infozip/ .

AUTHOR
       Greg Cave Newt Roelofs.	ZipInfo contains pattern-matching code	by
       Mark  Adler and fixes/improvements by many others.  Please refer to the
       CONTRIBS file in the UnZip source  distribution	for  a	more  complete
       list.



Info-ZIP		   28 February 2005 (v2.42)		    ZIPINFO(1)




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