At Sat, 13 Mar 2010 18:53:49 -0500 CentOS mailing list <centos@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> I have a zip file. It is over 2Gb in size:
>
> -rw-r--r-- 1 sweh sweh 2383956582 Mar 13 13:44 test.zip
>
> The standard "unzip" program barfs:
> % unzip -l test.zip
> Archive: test.zip
> End-of-central-directory signature not found. Either this file is not
> a zipfile, or it constitutes one disk of a multi-part archive. In the
> latter case the central directory and zipfile comment will be found on
> the last disk(s) of this archive.
> unzip: cannot find zipfile directory in one of test.zip or
> test.zip.zip, and cannot find test.zip.ZIP, period.
>
> This is because the info-zip utilities can't handle ZIP files over 2Gb in
> size.
>
> Windows can access it just fine.
>
> Anyone have any recommendations on a unix tool that'll let me access these
> large files?
Random thought (total guess): What happens if you use split on the zip
file and try to get info zip to think it is a multi-part archive?
>
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