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- FUNZIP(1) USER COMMANDS FUNZIP(1)
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- NAME
- funzip - extract from a ZIP archive file as a filter
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- SYNOPSIS
- [...] | funzip [ password ] | [...]
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- ARGUMENTS
- [password] Optional password to be used if ZIP archive is
- encrypted. Decryption may not be supported at
- some sites. See DESCRIPTION for more details.
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- DESCRIPTION
- FUnZip acts as a filter; that is, it assumes that a ZIP
- archive is being piped into standard input, and it extracts
- the first member from the archive to stdout. Given the lim-
- itation on single-member extraction, FUnZip is most useful
- in conjunction with a secondary archiver program such as
- tar(1). The following section includes an example illus-
- trating this usage in the case of disk backups to tape.
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- EXAMPLES
- To use FUnZip to extract the first member file of the
- archive test.zip and to pipe it into more(1):
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- funzip < test.zip | more
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- To use FUnZip to test the first member file of test.zip (any
- errors will be reported on standard error):
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- funzip < test.zip > /dev/null
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- To use Zip and FUnZip in place of compress(1) and zcat(1)
- for tape backups:
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- tar cf - . | zip -7 | dd of=/dev/nrst0 obs=8k
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- dd if=/dev/nrst0 ibs=8k | funzip | tar xf -
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- (where, for example, nrst0 is a SCSI tape drive).
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- LIMITATIONS
- There is presently no way to extract any member but the
- first from a ZIP archive. This would be useful in the case
- where a ZIP archive is included within another archive.
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- An alternate mechanism for passing the password to FUnZip
- would be preferable to putting it on the command line.
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- FUnZip would be useful under OS/2, too.
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- The functionality of FUnZip should be included in UnZip
- directly (future release).
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- Info-ZIP Last change: 19 Aug 92 (v1.3) 1
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- FUNZIP(1) USER COMMANDS FUNZIP(1)
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- SEE ALSO
- unzip(1), zip(1), zipcloak(1), zipinfo(1), zipnote(1),
- zipsplit(1)
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- AUTHOR
- Mark Adler (Info-ZIP)
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- Info-ZIP Last change: 19 Aug 92 (v1.3) 2
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