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    NAME

    zip - package and compress (archive) files

    SYNOPSIS
    zip [-aABcdDeEfFghjklLmoqrRSTuvVwXyz!@$] [--longoption ...] [-b path] [-
    n suffixes] [-t date] [-tt date] [zipfile [file ...]] [-xi
    list]

    zipcloak (see separate man page)

    zipnote (see separate man page)

    zipsplit (see separate man page)

    Note: Command line processing in zip has been changed to support long
    options and handle all options and arguments more consistently.
    Some old command lines that depend on command line inconsistencies may no
    longer work.

    DESCRIPTION
    zip is a compression and file packaging utility for Unix, VMS, MSDOS, OS/2,
    Windows 9x/NT/XP, Minix, Atari, Macintosh, Amiga, and Acorn
    RISC OS. It is analogous to a combination of the Unix commands tar(1) and
    compress(1) and is compatible with PKZIP (Phil Katzs ZIP
    for MSDOS systems).

    A companion program (unzip(1L)) unpacks zip archives. The zip and


    unzip(1L) programs can work with archives produced by PKZIP (sup-
    porting most PKZIP features up to PKZIP version 4.6), and PKZIP and PKUNZIP
    can work with archives produced by zip (with some excep-
    tions, notably streamed archives, but recent changes in the zip file
    standard may facilitate better compatibility). zip version 3.0 is
    compatible with PKZIP 2.04 and also supports the Zip64 extensions of PKZIP
    4.5 which allow archives as well as files to exceed the pre-
    vious 2 GB limit (4 GB in some cases). zip also now supports bzip2
    compression if the bzip2 library is included when zip is compiled.
    Note that PKUNZIP 1.10 cannot extract files produced by PKZIP 2.04 or zip
    3.0. You must use PKUNZIP 2.04g or unzip 5.0p1 (or later ver-
    sions) to extract them.

    See the EXAMPLES section at the bottom of this page for examples of some
    typical uses of zip.

    Large Archives and Zip64. zip automatically uses the Zip64 extensions when
    files larger than 4 GB are added to an archive, an archive
    containing Zip64 entries is updated (if the resulting archive still needs
    Zip64), the size of the archive will exceed 4 GB, or when the
    number of entries in the archive will exceed about 64K. Zip64 is also
    used for archives streamed from standard input as the size of
    such archives are not known in advance, but the option -fz- can be used to
    force zip to create PKZIP 2 compatible archives (as long as
    Zip64 extensions are not needed). You must use a PKZIP 4.5 compatible
    unzip, such as unzip 6.0 or later, to extract files using the
    Zip64 extensions.

    In addition, streamed archives, entries encrypted with standard encryption,


    or split archives created with the pause option may not be
    compatible with PKZIP as data descriptors are used and PKZIP at the time of
    this writing does not support data descriptors (but recent
    changes in the PKWare published zip standard now include some support for
    the data descriptor format zip uses).
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