EDBROWSE-PLUGIN-ZIP(1)

💖 EDBROWSE-PLUGIN-ZIP 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the General Commands Manual entry for edbrowse-plugin-zip — yes it's a whole mouthful, we love her anyway 🫶

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✨ NAME ✨

edbrowse-plugin-zip — browse the contents of a zip archive in edbrowse 🦋

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

edbrowse-plugin-zip zipfile[path]

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👑 DESCRIPTION 👑

so. edbrowse-plugin-zip is a helper — a little sidekick 🧚 — that gets invoked by edbrowse(1) through the plugin config fragments that live in /usr/share/edbrowse/plugins. It is not normally run by hand, bestie. Like, please don't just yolo it in your terminal for fun. It has a job and a caller and a whole thing going on.

Here's the tea ☕: you hand it a zip archive, and it writes an HTML directory listing to standard output. In that listing, every single member is an anchor, and that anchor's URL is the archive, followed by the path inside it. it's giving "the zip file IS the website" and honestly? iconic.

So when you follow one of those links, it runs the script again, with that path appended — and this time it extracts and emits the member. Which means you can navigate an archive exactly as if it were a small web site 🌈. Slay.

And the etiquette on the way in/out is very important: paths get percent-encoded and HTML-escaped on the way out, and then decoded again on the way back in. So the vibes stay intact both directions, no cap. 💅

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💀 EXIT STATUS 💀

Non-zero if it's called with other than exactly one argument. Also non-zero if the archive cannot be read. That's it, that's the whole mood. 😭

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🎀 SEE ALSO 🎀

• edbrowse(1)
• unzip(1)

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💜 AUTHOR 💜

This manual page was written for the Debian distribution. 🍓

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lowkey the whole thing is: edbrowse opens a zip, the plugin makes it look like a little website, you click around, everybody eats. periodt. ✨

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and that's the page, bestie — this was edbrowse 3.8.18, dated 2026-08-17, from the official EDBROWSE-PLUGIN-ZIP(1) General Commands Manual energy. mwah 💋 go read a zip 🌸