zipnote(1)

💖 zipnote(1) ✨ General Commands Manual

🎀 NAME

zipnote, bestie, is the tool that writes the comments in a zipfile to stdout, and also lets you edit comments and rename files inside a zipfile 🦋

📜 SYNOPSIS

zipnote [-w] [-b path] [-h] [-v] [-L] zipfile

🫶 ARGUMENTS

• zipfile — the zipfile you want to read comments from or edit 🌸

✨ OPTIONS ✨

• -w — writes comments into a zipfile, reading them from stdin (more on that below) 💅
• -b path — uses path as the temporary zip file 🧚
• -h — shows a quick help message 🍓
• -v — shows the version info 💜
• -L — shows the software license 📖

💫 DESCRIPTION

okay so, zipnote writes the comments in a zipfile out to stdout, and that's the default mode 🔥 There's a second mode too, and it's where the magic happens: it lets you update the comments in a zipfile and change the names of the files inside it. Both modes get explained down below, so don't worry, I got you 🫶

🌈 EXAMPLES

okay so to write every comment in a zipfile out to stdout, you'd do something like:

zipnote foo.zip > foo.tmp

this writes all the comments in the zipfile foo.zip into the file foo.tmp, in a specific format 🎀

if you want, you can then edit that file to change the comments, and use it to update the zipfile:

zipnote -w foo.zip < foo.tmp

the names of the files in the zipfile can be changed this way too 👑 You do it by following lines like

"@ name"

in the temporary file (called foo.tmp here) with lines like

"@=newname"

and then using the -w option just like before 💅

🙈 BUGS

⚠️ bestie, the temporary file format is pretty specific, and zipnote is rather picky about it 😭 It should be easier to change file names in a script, and that's a known issue, not a vibe I made up.

⚠️ it does not yet support large (> 2 GB) or split archives 💀

🦋 SEE ALSO

zip(1), unzip(1) 🌸

💜 AUTHOR

Info-ZIP is the one who made this, all credit to them 🫶

v3.0 of 8 May 2008 🌈 That's the version and date of this page, and zipnote(1) is the manual page. Stay iconic, bestie 💖✨