Decompressing/Viewing zip files with Cygwin

Decompressing/Viewing zip files with Cygwin

[Thomas Wiedmann]

Hello,

how can (Win)zip files (or certain files only of the zip archive) be 
decompressed or at least be viewed with Cygwin?

Thanks for all good hints.

Thomas Wiedmann 




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Re: Decompressing/Viewing zip files with Cygwin

[Thorsten Kampe]

* Thomas Wiedmann (Wed, 18 Jun 2008 21:19:30 +0200)
> how can (Win)zip files (or certain files only of the zip archive) be 
> decompressed or at least be viewed with Cygwin?

"unzip"


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Re: Decompressing/Viewing zip files with Cygwin

[Thomas Wiedmann]

>> how can (Win)zip files (or certain files only of the zip archive) be 
>> decompressed or at least be viewed with Cygwin?
>
> "unzip"

Unfortunately the "unzip" command is not available in my Cygwin environment. 
If I try to call it, I get the following message:

$ unzip Temp.zip
bash: unzip: command not found


 How to get and integrate the "unzip" command for Cygwin?


Thomas Wiedmann 




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Re: Decompressing/Viewing zip files with Cygwin

[DePriest, Jason R.]

On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 10:21 PM, Thomas Wiedmann <th.wm@gmx.de> wrote:
>>> how can (Win)zip files (or certain files only of the zip archive) be
>>> decompressed or at least be viewed with Cygwin?
>>
>> "unzip"
>
> Unfortunately the "unzip" command is not available in my Cygwin environment.
> If I try to call it, I get the following message:
>
> $ unzip Temp.zip
> bash: unzip: command not found
>
>
>  How to get and integrate the "unzip" command for Cygwin?
>
>
> Thomas Wiedmann
>

run setup, select unzip, and install it

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Re: Decompressing/Viewing zip files with Cygwin

[wynfield]

You might also try 7-Zip.  You can download it from: http://www.7-zip.org/
7-zip supports 7z, ZIP, CAB, RAR, ARJ, LZH, CHM, GZIP, BZIP2, Z, TAR, CPIO, ISO, MSI, WIM, NSIS, RPM and DEB formats.

I use this and in my shell resource file I have aliased it to "7z" in instead of putting the directory in my $PATH variable for some reason, I cant remember.  Lazy maybe.

alias 7z='/cygdrive/c/Program\ Files/7-Zip/7z.exe'

7-Zip also has a gui executable, "/cygdrive/c/Program\ Files/7-Zip/7zFM.exe"
for a window interface.

regards

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Thomas Wiedmann <th.wm@gmx.de> wrote:
> Hello,
> how can (Win)zip files (or certain files only of the zip archive) be 
> decompressed or at least be viewed with Cygwin?
> 
> Thanks for all good hints.
> Thomas Wiedmann 

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Re: Decompressing/Viewing zip files with Cygwin

[Larry Hall (Cygwin)]

wynfield@gmail.com wrote:
> You might also try 7-Zip. You can download it from: http://www.7-zip.org/
>  7-zip supports 7z, ZIP, CAB, RAR, ARJ, LZH, CHM, GZIP, BZIP2, Z, TAR,
> CPIO, ISO, MSI, WIM, NSIS, RPM and DEB formats.
> 
> I use this and in my shell resource file I have aliased it to "7z" in
> instead of putting the directory in my $PATH variable for some reason, I
> cant remember. Lazy maybe.
> 
> alias 7z='/cygdrive/c/Program\ Files/7-Zip/7z.exe'
> 
> 7-Zip also has a gui executable, "/cygdrive/c/Program\ Files/7-Zip/7zFM.exe"
> for a window interface.

If one is looking for a command-line interface, the Cygwin "p7zip" package
is an arguably nicer one for Cygwin. ;-)


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