zipcloak(1)

📦 version 3.0, in alpine 3.22, alpine 3.23, alpine 3.24, arch rolling, centos-stream 10, centos-stream 9, debian bookworm, debian trixie, fedora 43, fedora 44, nixos 26.05, nixpkgs unstable, opensuse-leap 16.0, ubuntu jammy, ubuntu noble, ubuntu questing, ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking

✨ NAME ✨

zipcloak 🧥 — encrypt entries in a zipfile 🔐

Okay so the manual name is zipcloak, and it's all about encrypting entries in a zipfile, bestie 💖

💅 SYNOPSIS 💅

zipcloak [-d] [-b path] [-h] [-v] [-L] zipfile

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

  • zipfile — the zipfile you want to encrypt entries in 🦋

🌸 OPTIONS 🌸

  • -b path, --temp-path path — slay, this one lets you pick the directory at path for the temporary zip file 📁
  • -d, --decrypt — decrypts encrypted entries, but heads up, it'll just copy them if you give it the wrong password 🙈
  • -h, --help — shows a short help, iykyk 🫶
  • -L, --license — shows the software license 📜
  • -O path, --output-file zipfile — writes the output to a brand new archive called zipfile, and your original archive stays exactly as it is 🌈
  • -q, --quiet — quiet mode, so it's way less chatty and skips some informational messages 🤫
  • -v, --version — shows the version info ✨

👑 DESCRIPTION 👑

Okay so zipcloak encrypts all the unencrypted entries in the zipfile. That's the default vibe, no cap 💜

The -d option is what you reach for when you want to decrypt encrypted entries in the zipfile 🔓

Real talk though, zipcloak uses the original zip encryption, which is considered weak 💀

Note: the encryption code of this program is not copyrighted and is put in the public domain 🌍 It was originally written in Europe and can be freely distributed from any country, including the U.S.A. (Previously, if this program was imported into the U.S.A, it could not be re-exported from the U.S.A to another country.) See the file README.CR included in the source distribution for more on this. Otherwise, the Info-ZIP license applies 🦋

🧚 EXAMPLES 🧚

To be added. 🙈

🔥 BUGS 🔥

Large files (> 2 GB) and large archives are not yet supported, sorry bestie 😭

Split archives are not yet supported either. A work around is to convert the split archive to a single-file archive using zip and then use zipcloak on the single-file archive. If needed, the resulting archive can then be split again using zip 🍓

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

zip(1), unzip(1) 💜

🫶 AUTHOR 🫶

Info-ZIP 🧁

Okay bestie, that's the whole tea from zipcloak 💖 Version 3.0 of 8 May 2008, zipcloak(1) ✨ Stay encrypted, stay iconic 💅🦋

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