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NAME

ziptool - modify zip archives  

SYNOPSIS

[-ceghnrst ] [-l length ] [-o offset ] zi-archive command [comman-args ... ] [command [comman-args ... ...] ]  

DESCRIPTION

modifies the zip archive zi-archive according to the commands given.

Supported options:

-c
Check zip archive consistency when opening it.
-e
Error if archive already exists (only useful with -n )
-g
Guess file name encoding (for stat command).
-h
Display help.
-l length
Only read length bytes of archive. See also -o
-n
Create archive if it doesn't exist. See also -e
-o offset
Start reading input archive from offset See also -l
-r
Print raw file name encoding without translation (for stat command).
-s
Follow file name convention strictly (for stat command).
-t
Disregard current file contents, if any. Note use this with care, it deletes all existing file contents when you modify the archive.

 

Commands

For all commands below, the index is zer-based. In other words, the first entry in the zip archive has index 0.

Supported commands and arguments are:

add name content
Add file called name using the string content from the command line as data.
add_dir name
Add directory name
add_file name file_to_add offset len
Add file name to archive, using len bytes from the file file_to_add as input data, starting at offset
add_from_zip name archivename index offset len
Add file called name to archive using data from another zip archive archivename using the entry with index index and reading len bytes from offset
cat index
Output file contents for entry index to stdout.
count_extra index flags
Print the number of extra fields for archive entry index using flags
count_extra_by_id index extra_id flags
Print number of extra fields of type extra_id for archive entry index using flags
delete index
Remove entry at index from zip archive.
delete_extra index extra_idx flags
Remove extra field number extra_idx from archive entry index using flags
delete_extra_by_id index extra_id extra_index flags
Remove extra field number extra_index of type extra_id from archive entry index using flags
get_archive_comment
Print archive comment.
get_archive_flag flag
Print state of archive flag flag
get_extra index extra_index flags
Print extra field extra_index for archive entry index using flags
get_extra_by_id index extra_id extra_index flags
Print extra field extra_index of type extra_id for archive entry index using flags
get_file_comment index
Get file comment for archive entry index
get_num_entries flags
Print number of entries in archive using flags
name_locate name flags
Find entry in archive with the filename name using flags and print its index.
rename index name
Rename archive entry index to name
replace_file_contents index data
Replace file contents for archive entry index with the string data
set_archive_comment comment
Set archive comment to comment
get_archive_flag flag value
Set archive flag flag to value
set_extra index extra_id extra_index flags value
Set extra field number extra_index of type extra_id for archive entry index using flags to value
set_file_comment index comment
Set file comment for archive entry index to string comment
set_file_compression index method compression_flags
Set file compression method for archive entry index to method using compression_flags Note Currently, compression_flags are ignored.
set_file_encryption index method password
Set file encryption method for archive entry index to method with password password
set_file_mtime index timestamp
Set file modification time for archive entry index to UNIX mtime timestamp
set_file_mtime_all timestamp
Set file modification time for all archive entries to UNIX mtime timestamp
set_password password
Set default password for encryption/decryption to password
stat index
Print information about archive entry index

 

Flags

Some commands take flag arguments. Each character in the argument sets the corresponding flag. Use 0 or the empty string for no flags.

Supported flags are:

4
ZIP_FL_ENC_CP437
8
ZIP_FL_ENC_UTF_8
C
ZIP_FL_NOCASE
c
ZIP_FL_CENTRAL
d
ZIP_FL_NODIR
l
ZIP_FL_LOCAL
r
ZIP_FL_ENC_RAW
s
ZIP_FL_ENC_STRICT
u
ZIP_FL_UNCHANGED

 

Archive flags

get_archive_flag and set_archive_flag work on the following flags:

 

Compression Methods

Some commands take compression method arguments. Supported methods are:

 

Encryption Methods

Some commands take encryption method arguments. Supported methods are:

 

EXIT STATUS

Ex -std  

EXAMPLES

Add a file called teststring.txt to the zip archive testbuffer.zip with data ``This is a test.n'' where ``n'' is replaced with a newline character: 
ziptool testbuffer.zip add teststring.txt "This is a test.n"

Delete the first file from the zip archive testfile.zip 

ziptool testfile.zip delete 0
 

SEE ALSO

zipcmp(1), zipmerge(1), libzip(3)  

HISTORY

was added in libzip 1.1.  

AUTHORS

An -nosplit An Dieter Baron Aq Mt dillo@nih.at and An Thomas Klausner Aq Mt wiz@gatalith.at

 

Index

NAME
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
Commands
Flags
Archive flags
Compression Methods
Encryption Methods
EXIT STATUS
EXAMPLES
SEE ALSO
HISTORY
AUTHORS