ZIP_FILE(5)

💖 ZIP_FILE(5) — the file-in-archive glow-up 💖

zip_file, bestie. It's the File Formats Manual entry for the lil' guy that lives inside your archive. Come sit, I'll explain everything, no cap. 🎀

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✨ NAME ✨

zip_file — file in archive 🦋

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📚 LIBRARY 📚

libzip (-lzip)

Like, that's the whole library, that's the vibe. 💅

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

#include <zip.h>

zip_file_t *file;

Yup. That's it. Two lines. Iconic behaviour honestly. 👑

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💫 DESCRIPTION 💫

Okay so a zip_file represents, like, a file inside an archive, opened for reading. Main character of the archive, fr fr. 🫶

It gets created with one of these four queens:

• zip_fopen(3)
• zip_fopen_index(3)
• zip_fopen_encrypted(3)
• zip_fopen_index_encrypted(3)

Then you actually get at the data with any of these:

• zip_fread(3) — read it 📖
• zip_file_is_seekable(3) — is it seekable tho 🤔
• zip_ftell(3) — where am I 📍
• zip_fseek(3) — take me there 🚀

And when you're done, you close it with zip_fclose(3). Say bye bestie, close the door, we don't leave things open. 🚪✨

⚠️ BIG ONE, PAY ATTENTION: if the containing zip_t gets closed, then every single further use of the zip_file_t returns an error. Not a warning. Not a vibe check. An error. So don't be out here using a zip_file_t whose parent zip_t already ghosted you. 💀

Also cute detail: it's a convenience wrapper around a zip_source_t as created by zip_source_zip(3). So like, the whole thing is lowkey a glow-up of a zip_source_t. She's a wrapper, she's serving, she's convenient. 💅🌈

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👀 SEE ALSO 👀

Go read these too, they're all connected, iykyk:

• zip_fclose(3)
• zip_file_is_seekable(3)
• zip_fopen(3)
• zip_fopen_encrypted(3)
• zip_fopen_index(3)
• zip_fopen_index_encrypted(3,)
• zip_fread(3)
• zip_fseek(3)
• zip_ftell(3)
• zip_source_zip(3)

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🫶 AUTHORS 🫶

Absolute legends who wrote this:

• Dieter Baron <dillo@nih.at>
• Thomas Klausner <wiz@gatalith.at>

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k that's the whole page, you ate it, periodt 💖✨

This one came from the Debian crew, dated May 5, 2025, and it's filed under ZIP_FILE(5) in the manual. Slay, go close your file handles. 🎀🦋🌸