Checking Zip Contents with unzipĪnother way to see the contents of zips is to use the familiar ‘unzip’ command with a simple -l flag. The zipinfo command will only work for zip archives, and it will not view the contents of password protected zips. rw-r-r- 2.1 unx 132 bX defN 21-May-13 12:44 testingsomething.txtĥ files, 4486 bytes uncompressed, 991 bytes compressed: 77.9% Here’s an example of the command and some sample output, remember output always looks cleaner in the terminal than it does on a webpage:
All of this information is revealed without uncompressing the zip.
At it’s most basic usage, it requires no flags or anything fancy, just point it at a zip file and you’ll see a full list of the archives contents, the file size of each item within the archive, file count, total size of the zip, the read/write/execution permissions per file, file modification date and time, the compression level and efficacy of the compression, and of course, the file names. The most informative for zips and perhaps the easiest to remember is the ‘zipinfo’ command. Viewing Zip Archive Contents with zip info
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