Comments on: How to extract multi-part zip files

By: Dava

Dava — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 04:57:51 +0000

Nowadays you don’t need to merge the files on linux. “zip -F” automatically recognises that the input file is a multi-part archive.

zip -F zipfiles.zip –out OneZipArchive.zip
unzip OneZipArchive.zip

This is a solution i found while trying your solution ;) Thanks for that

By: mitsaras

mitsaras — Mon, 02 May 2011 20:07:19 +0000

I know this is quite old, but google is THE problem solver these days.

I downloaded 4 files. 3 were 100mb each (file.z01, file.z02, file.z03) and a 47mb one, “file.zip”. Obviously the last part of a th full archive is the smallest one. Here’s what I did…

$ mv file.zip file.z04 $ cat file.* > file.zip $ zip -FF file.zip --out final.zip $ unzip final.zip

By: nagisa

nagisa — Sun, 24 Apr 2011 05:49:29 +0000

Thanks, thanks and thanks again! This thing helped me alot!

By: taz

taz — Sun, 17 Apr 2011 03:45:47 +0000

Unfortunately this is wrong about 7zip
I really wish people would test things out before saying it would work.
this isn’t the only place that guessed about 7zip though
The part about concatenating the files might work, but you have to be careful to get them in the right order otherwise it won’t work and depending on the OS the * might list out the files in a different order which means then that that answer won’t work either

By: jsonx

jsonx — Sat, 09 Apr 2011 21:18:22 +0000

Thank you very much. It works perfect.

By: UbuntuDude

UbuntuDude — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 09:17:43 +0000

The optionhendra-k@server $ zip -F zipfiles-full.zip is not working for me
It ask’s me to specify an output.
Which I then dohendra-k@server $ zip -F zipfiles-full.zip –out zipfile-full.zipBut it doesn’t work.
What can I do.

By: Unrequited Love Dude

Unrequited Love Dude — Sun, 06 Mar 2011 10:08:58 +0000

Hi,

I tried unpacking them with 7zip. But it just says “Can’t open file as archive”. But when I doubleclick it shows that there is a file inside, but I just can’t extract it. Any idea how this can be solved?
Does it matter whether I start with the first file or with the last to unzip?

Thanks.

By: Adrian Callaghan

Adrian Callaghan — Fri, 01 Oct 2010 23:32:36 +0000

Thankyou, this was exactly what I was looking for, you would assume the archivers would detect this on linux!

By: zero

zero — Sun, 08 Aug 2010 09:16:14 +0000

Thank you… it really works!!

By: Darren

Darren — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 22:58:37 +0000

thanks, I’m still trying to figure out the best way to do this on ubuntu