unzipping a wizip file on unix

[SirCharles]

How would one unzip a winzip 8.1 (windows zip file) zipped file on a unix box?

 

[bi]

which flavor of unix?

My sun systems have unzip, which works on at least a Winzip 7.0 file. There is no unzip on my HP or AIX systems, but that doesn't mean there isn't some shareware out there that would work.

 

[danielhozac]

http://www.info-zip.org/

//Daniel

 

[dblair]

gnu zip.

 

[danielhozac]

GNU ZIP doesn't use the same algorithm, nor the same format, hence it wouldn't work on a WinZIP file.

//Daniel

 

[SirCharles]

solaris. unzip did work. Thanks. I had tried gunzip without any luck. Finally thumbing throught the man pages did it. Thanks bi.

 

[bigoldbulldog]

gzip -cd file.zip > unzipped

Works when only one file is in the WinZip archive

Cheers,
ND

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