miniunzip(1)

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💖 miniunzip(1) — bestie's guide to unzipping ur stuff 💖

okay so real talk: this is miniunzip, from the General Commands Manual. She's little, she's cute, she unzips. Let's go 🦋

✨ NAME ✨

miniunzip — uncompress and examine ZIP archives 🎀

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

miniunzip [-exvlo] zipfile [ files_to_extract ] [-d tempdir]

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

minizip is a simple little tool that lets you extract compressed file archives in the ZIP format — yep, the same format the MS-DOS utility PKZIP uses. iykyk 💅

Now here's the tea: it was written as a demonstration of the zlib(3) library. So it's giving "proof of concept main character" and therefore it lacks many of the features of the unzip(1) program. Not a glow-up situation, just a demo. No cap. 😭

✨ OPTIONS ✨

A whole bunch of options are supported, bestie. And listen — with the exception of -d tempdir, these must be supplied before any other arguments. Order matters, periodt. 💀

  • -l, --v — List the files in the archive without extracting them. Just a lil peek, no touching 👀
  • -o — Overwrite files without prompting for confirmation. She will not ask. She will simply do it 🔥
  • -x — Extract files (default). This is the one she does anyway, so specifying it is just being extra 💖

The zipfile argument is the name of the archive to process. And the next argument can be used to specify a single file to extract from the archive. Cherry-picking, we love to see it 🍓

🎀 the last-one-only option 🎀

Lastly, this next option can be specified at the end of the command line:

  • -d tempdir — Extract the archive in the directory tempdir rather than the current directory. Moving day, but make it a folder you picked 🧚

✨ SEE ALSO ✨

minizip(1), zlib(3), unzip(1).

👑 AUTHOR 👑

This program was written by Gilles Vollant. This manual page was written by Mark Brown <broonie@sirena.org.uk>. And the -d tempdir option was added by Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org>. Three icons, one manpage, we stan 🫶

and that's the whole vibe check, bestie — go unzip something, you got this 💅✨

This page came from the General Commands Manual and it's dated Nov 7, 2001 — so yeah, she's an elder but she still slays. Byeee 👑🌈

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