Comments on: How to extract multi-part zip files

By: Amit Shah

Amit Shah — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 08:26:53 +0000

Thanks hendra for this tutorial! It saves my lots of time.

By: the dsc

the dsc — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 17:28:45 +0000

zip -F for me resulted in “Missing or empty zip file”, even though the file has 5.1 GB.

I’m not complaining to the post’s author, this is just an aimless rant/sort of advice.

By: the dsc

the dsc — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 17:13:37 +0000

I think it may be very slow with large files, which may also imply in a problem of space, depending on the size. There must be some non-gui or even gui way to do it in a more straightforward way. The stupid ark first tries to copy any archive it’s going to uncompress to the depths of some obscure ~/.kde/ subfolder, instead of just using the files right where they are.

By: Eoin Murphy

Eoin Murphy — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 02:02:56 +0000

Thanks very much for the hint.
It was the -F bit that I was missing.

Much appreciated

By: Eoin Murphy

Eoin Murphy — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 02:02:15 +0000

Thanks very much for the hint.
It was the -F

Much appreciated

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By: Jimr

Jimr — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 21:50:56 +0000

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

By: Damian

Damian — Thu, 28 May 2009 12:24:29 +0000

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

By: Fruppophy

Fruppophy — Wed, 13 May 2009 10:52:16 +0000

O.K.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 19:24:07 +0000

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).