ZIPINFO(1L) UNIX Programmer's Manual ZIPINFO(1L)NAMEzipinfo - list detailed information about a ZIP archive
SYNOPSISzipinfo [-12smlvhMtTz] file[.zip] [file(s) ...]
[-xxfile(s) ...]
unzip -Z [-12smlvhMtTz] file[.zip] [file(s) ...]
[-xxfile(s) ...]
DESCRIPTIONzipinfo lists technical information about files in a ZIP
archive, most commonly found on MS-DOS systems. Such infor-
mation 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 DESCRIPTION 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 sys-
tem). 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 `^') fol-
lows the left bracket, then the range of charac-
ters 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
interpreted or modified by the operating system,
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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 sup-
ported, 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.) Regu-
lar expressions (wildcards) may be used to match multi-
ple members; see above. Again, be sure to quote
expressions that would otherwise be expanded or modi-
fied by the operating system.
[-xxfile(s)]
An optional list of archive members to be excluded from
processing.
OPTIONS-1 list filenames only, one per line. This option
excludes all others; headers, trailers and zipfile com-
ments 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 particularly 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
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terminated by pressing the ``q'' key and, on some sys-
tems, the Enter/Return key. Unlike Unix more(1), there
is no forward-searching or editing capability. Also,
zipinfo doesn't notice if long lines wrap at the edge
of the screen, effectively resulting in the printing of
two or more lines and the likelihood 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 addi-
tional 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 examples below).
-z include the archive comment (if any) in the listing.
DETAILED DESCRIPTIONzipinfo has a number of modes, and its behavior can be
rather difficult to fathom if one isn't 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 permissions 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
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either `t' or `b', indicating that zip believes the file to
be text or binary, respectively; but if the file is
encrypted, zipinfo notes this fact by capitalizing the char-
acter (`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 PKWare's APPNOTE.TXT, but basically
analogous to pragmas in ANSI C--i.e., they provide a stan-
dard way to include non-standard information 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 neither 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 actu-
ally 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 executable (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 Macin-
tosh archivers don't 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 publicly released), and deflat-
ing. 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).
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ZIPINFO(1L) UNIX Programmer's Manual ZIPINFO(1L)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 file's
compression. The medium format lists the file's 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 ori-
ginal size. The long format gives the compressed file's
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 fig-
ures 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(1L) and unzip.
In addition to individual file information, a default zip-
file 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 zip's
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 Unix's ``ls -l''; it may
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be overridden by specifying the -h and -t options expli-
citly. In such a case the listing format must also be speci-
fied 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 PKWARE's
authentication (``AV'') info; OS/2 extended attributes; VMS
filesystem info, both PKWARE and Info-ZIP versions; Macin-
tosh 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/2's dir command: OS/2 always reports
the number of bytes required in 16-bit format, 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 cal-
culated without the extra 12 header bytes of encrypted
entries.
ENVIRONMENT OPTIONS
Modifying zipinfo's default behavior via options placed in
an environment variable can be a bit complicated to explain,
due to zipinfo's 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 indivi-
dual zipfile members are specified). A user who prefers the
long-listing format (-l) can make use of the zipinfo's
environment variable to change this default:
Unix Bourne shell:
ZIPINFO=-l; export ZIPINFO
Unix C shell:
setenv ZIPINFO -l
OS/2 or MS-DOS:
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set ZIPINFO=-l
VMS (quotes for lowercase):
define ZIPINFO_OPTS "-l"
If, in addition, the user dislikes the trailer line,
zipinfo's concept of ``negative options'' may be used to
override the default inclusion of the line. This is accom-
plished 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 it's reasonably intuitive
nonetheless: simply ignore the first hyphen and go from
there. It is also consistent with the behavior 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(1L), ZIPIN-
FOOPT is also accepted (don't ask). If both ZIPINFO and
ZIPINFOOPT are defined, however, ZIPINFO takes precedence.
unzip's 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 con-
tents 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,
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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 environ-
ment 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 themselves 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 zip-
files are then summarized with a single command.
To list information on a single file within the archive, in
medium format, 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 information 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 expli-
citly:
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
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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 versions of
sort(1) do not support the -k option, but you can use the
traditional + option instead, e.g., +6 instead of -k 7. The
sed(1) command 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 executable, create a link or create a com-
mand file with the name ii). The ii usage parallels the com-
mon ll alias for long listings in Unix, and the similarity
between the outputs of the two commands was intentional.
BUGS
As with unzip, zipinfo's -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 screen's width as well as its
height. In addition, zipinfo should detect the true screen
geometry on all systems.
zipinfo's listing-format behavior is unnecessarily complex
and should be simplified. (This is not to say that it will
be.)
SEE ALSOls(1), funzip(1L), unzip(1L), unzipsfx(1L), zip(1L),
zipcloak(1L), zipnote(1L), zipsplit(1L)URL
The Info-ZIP home page is currently at
http://www.info-zip.org/pub/infozip/
or
ftp://ftp.info-zip.org/pub/infozip/ .
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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.
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