ZIPCMP(1)

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version 1.11.4 · 3 versions
, in arch rolling, debian trixie, fedora 43, fedora 44, nixpkgs unstable, ubuntu questing, ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking

✨ ZIPCMP ✨

okay so bestie, this is zipcmp from the General Commands Manual section, and it's literally the moment you find out if two zips are the same girlies or not 💅

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

zipcmp [-ChipqsTtVv] archive1 archive2

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

So what zipcmp does is it takes archive1 and archive2 — and those can be zip archives or directories, yes really — and it checks if they contain the same files. It compares the names, the uncompressed sizes, and the CRCs. That's the trio. That's the vibe check. 🫶

And listen: file order does not matter. Compressed size differences? Also ignored. We are NOT nitpicking those, periodt.

Here's the options lineup, they're all icons honestly:

  • -C — Checks the consistency of the archives. If an archive is inconsistent, or just straight up not valid according to the zip specification, you get an error. It's giving 🚨.
  • -h — Shows a short help message and dips. That's it, that's the whole thing.
  • -i — Compares names ignoring case distinctions. So README and readme are the same to it. lowercase girlboss behavior fr.
  • -p — Turns on paranoid checks 👀. It compares extra fields, comments, and other meta data. Important note bestie: this gets automatically disabled if one of the archives is a directory. Also, these checks get skipped for files where the data itself differs — no point being paranoid about a file that's already a different file, iykyk.
  • -q — Quiet mode. Like, the opposite of -v. Shhh 🤫.
  • -s — Prints a summary of how many files were added and how many were removed. The receipts 📊.
  • -T — Additionally compares the time stamps of the entries. Not just vibes — actual timestamps ⏰.
  • -t — Tests the zip files by comparing the contents to their checksums. Trust but verify, always 💯.
  • -V — Displays version information and exits. Byeee 👋.
  • -v — Verbose mode. Prints details about the differences to stdout. And here's the tea: this is the default 🔥. So if you didn't ask for anything, you already got this.

🌈 EXIT STATUS 🌈

The numbers are the whole story here:

  • 0 — the two archives contain the same files. Slay 🎀
  • 1 — they differ. Not slay, but informative 💀
  • >1 — an error occurred. Something went wrong bestie 😭

🌸 SEE ALSO 🌸

Go be nosy, these are the friends:

🧚 HISTORY 🧚

zipcmp was added in libzip 0.6. An elder. A legend. We stan 👑.

💜 AUTHORS 💜

Dieter Baron <dillo@nih.at> and Thomas Klausner <wiz@gatalith.at> — the two masterminds behind this whole thing, absolute main characters ✨

okay that's the page, sending you off with love from the Debian crew, dated March 15, 2024 — go compare some zips and have the best day 💖🦋🌸
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