[svlug] Issue with unzip

Marco Walther marco at sonic.net
Sat Apr 23 14:15:07 PDT 2005


On Friday 22 April 2005 07:43, Skip Evans wrote:
> Yes. I tried ./vhosts.zip and full paths.
>
> Someone else had zipped this file up from
> another server and ftp'd it over, so what I did

Was this file transfered using the ftp ASCII transfer mode?  That might 
corrupt the zip file and unzip would not be happy after that.

Thanks,
-- Marco


> was go back to the original server, tar up
> each smaller unit (this is about 12 web sites all
> zipped into one file), and then move these over,
> untar them individually and install them that
> way.
>
> Don't know what the issue was with zip, but
> tar worked fine.
>
> Thanks!
> Skip
>
> James Sparenberg wrote:
> >On Thu, 2005-04-21 at 21:01 -0700, Michael Madore wrote:
> >>Skip Evans wrote:
> >>>Hey all,
> >>>
> >>>I am unable to unzip a .zip file. Here's a transcript:
> >>>
> >>>[root at localhost home]# ll *zip
> >>>-rwxrwxrwx  1 root root 2704256846 Apr 21 18:50 vhosts.zip
> >>>[root at localhost home]# file vhosts.zip
> >>>vhosts.zip: Zip archive data, at least v1.0 to extract
> >>>[root at localhost home]# unzip vhosts
> >>>unzip:  cannot find vhosts, vhosts.zip or vhosts.ZIP.
> >>>[root at localhost home]# unzip vhosts.zip
> >>>unzip:  cannot find vhosts.zip, vhosts.zip.zip or vhosts.zip.ZIP.
> >>>[root at localhost home]#
> >>>
> >>>Any suggestions???
> >>
> >>Hi Skip,
> >>
> >>Just a guess, but the file is > 2GB.  Does the distribution you are
> >>unzipping on support > 2GB files?
> >>
> >>Mike
> >
> >strange yes....  have you tried
> >
> >unzip ./vhosts.zip        or
> >
> >unzip /full/path/to/vhosts.zip
> >
> >Your version of unzip may be having a "winodows" moment.
> >
> >James
> >
> >
> >
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