How to extract multi-part zip files

Have you ever seen these file ?

  • zipfiles.zip
  • zipfiles.z01
  • zipfiles.z02
  • zipfiles.z03
  • ……
  • zipfiles.z10

These are the multi-part of zipped files, which mean  one big file are to big to make archive so it should split  into several files. These files were created by winzip. Probably for many people (included me) it such a weird file, and they don’t know how to extract the file archives.

After my research in whole google how to extract it, here i want to share to you how to extract it.

For window platform
There are so many software has support for these extension such as winzip, winrar, 7-zip, and many other, put those file in one folder, and then just click with your supported software above, and whala…. the file  extracted.

For linux platform
The problem for newbie user in linux is they don’t now how to combine the command within. I got the problem too with these platform, but that’s why i like most with this platform, it challenged me to know. Alright then here the command for solve this problem.

hendra-k@server $ cat zipfiles.* > zipfiles-full.zip
hendra-k@server $ zip -F zipfiles-full.zip
hendra-k@server $ unzip zipfiles-full.zip

here the description for these command above :

hendra-k@server $ cat zipfiles.* > zipfiles-full.zip
= merging those file into one full zipped file

hendra-k@server $ zip -F zipfiles-full.zip
= Fixing the archive of the overall zipped files

hendra-k@server $ unzip zipfiles-full.zip
= Extract the full zipped fil

Hope this tutorial is usefull for you

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24 Responses to “How to extract multi-part zip files”

  1. Brian says:

    As a newbie :d this was very helpful
    Thanks,
    Brian

  2. hendra-k says:

    @Brian
    hi brian
    thanks for your visiting to my blog, hope its helpful

  3. Joe Toth says:

    Great little tutorial, but shouldn’t it be >> not > ?

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  5. aftab says:

    Thanks that was great help!

  6. jordi says:

    dont fucking get it

  7. jordi says:

    Why bother linux anyways only gives you crap, i’m only trying to get a XP Pro image and it can’t even fucking unrar a file or deal with a multi-zip file8-|

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  10. Alex Krenvalk says:

    For that there is a many programs,but me like this tool-repairing zip files,exactly it could helped me,very popular freeware tool, it permits to save a lot of free space, when storing data,supports all Windows operating systems, starting from Windows 98, i.e. Windows Me, Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows XP SP2, Windows 2003 and Windows Vista,can see such messages, like Cannot open file: it does not appear to be a valid archive, CRC error or some other failures,will see a list of files, that can be recovered, registered customers can save the files to HDD and finish with recovery process.

  11. brian says:

    THANK YOU!! linux commands useful for os x.

  12. anze says:

    @jordi: interesting, I have just unzipped multi-part zip file and unrar-ed the file that was in there (in Linux of course). So I guess the problem is in you, not in Linux. :)

    (don’t ask me why someone sent me such files – windows users do all sorts of weird things)

    But yes, unzip should support the multi-part unzipping without workarounds. We are all waiting for the next major version.

  13. Rambo says:

    Good job, I was looking for that. Couldn’t find it less faster, 4th link, first page of Googling.

  14. Like says:

    There are 4 parts of zip file (wmv). But I have only part 1 & 2, And I cannot find part 3 & 4. Thus, can I extract only part 1 &2, then see it by movie player?

    Please help to advise!

    Thanks in advance.
    Like

  15. kleanchap says:

    Short and clean tutorial! Thank you!

    PS – I was trying to merge IZarc multi-part archive on Linux. Your site was very helpful.

  16. Andy L. says:

    sudo aptitude -y install p7zip-full

    :)

  17. Andy L. says:

    Or, if you’re not on Ubuntu, install the “p7zip-full” package of your distribution.

  18. Adriano says:

    Thank you so much!

  19. riz says:

    Can I extract **.zip without z02,z03,…..

    Thanks
    riz

  20. Bryan says:

    Thank you for this tutorial! The man page told me what needed to be done, but not really how to do it.

    The only change I’d see is that when I ran the command:

    zip -F

    I recieved the following:

    zip: reading
    zip: warning: would be truncated.
    Retry with option -qF to truncate, with -FF to attempt full recovery

    I used the -FF, but I don’t know if it will work or should be recommended…It’s still reading the file (4 hours later).

  21. Damian says:

    Thanks a lot :)
    It work even on multipart archives with password, but you have to use -P modifier for unzip command

  22. Jimr says:

    How do you do this in windows with winzip. I did what was posted, but there was no whala, no unzipped, combined 4 files. files are .z01-.z04

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