There is a companion to Zip called UnZip (of course) which you should be able to find the same place you got Zip. and UnZip can work with files produced by PKZIP under MSDOS, and PKZIP and PKUNZIP can work with files produced by Zip.
Zip puts one or more compressed files into a single "zip file" along with information about the files, including the name, path if requested, date and time last modified, protection, and check information to verify the fidelity of each entry. Zip can pack an entire directory structure in a zip file with a single command. Compression ratios of 2:1 to 3:1 are common for text files. Zip has two compression methods, implosion and shrinking, and automatically chooses the better of the two for each file to be compressed.
Zip is useful for packaging a set of files to send to someone or for distribution; for archiving or backing up files; and for saving disk space by temporarily compressing unused files or directories.
First, unpack the source as follows, assuming that you have zip10.zip in the current directory:
mkdir zipsrc cd zipsrc unzip ../zip10
This extracts all source files and documentation in the directory called "zipsrc". You then do:
make system
where "system" is one of: bsd, bsdold, sysv, next, next10, sun, hpux, dnix, cray, 3b1, zilog, aux, convex, aix, or minix. If you are using a NeXT running version 2.0 or greater, then make next. If you are using 1.0, then make next10. If you are using Sun OS 4.x, then make sun. If you are using HPUX, then make hpux. The other special systems are DNIX 5.2 or 5.3, Cray Unicos, AT&T 3B1 (also known as Unix PC or PC 7300), Zilog Zeus, A/UX, Convex, AIX, and MINIX. Otherwise, if you are using BSD Unix, try bsd. If the linker cannot find _memset or _memcpy, try bsdold. If you are using System V Unix or SCO Unix, try sysv. Also use sysv on a Silicon Graphics (SGI) machine. You can also cross-compile Zip for MSDOS under SCO 386 Unix using "make scodos".
If none of these compiles, links, and functions properly on your Unix system, see the section BUGS below for how to get help.
If the appropriate system was selected, then the executable "zip" will be created. You can move the executable "zip" to an appropriate directory in the search path using a command like:
mv zip ~/bin
or
mv zip /usr/local/bin
You can use the command "set" to see the current search path. If you are using the C-Shell (csh), enter the command:
rehash
so csh can find the new command in the path. You are now ready to use Zip.
You can also move the manual page (the raw form of what you're reading) to where the Unix man command can find it (assuming you have the necessary privileges):
mv zip.1 /usr/man/man1
You can get rid of the now unnecessary source and object files with:
cd .. rm -r zipsrc
This will remove the directory zip and its contents created by unzip. You should keep the zip10.zip file around though, in case you need to build it again or want to give it to a colleague.
The steps for installation under MSDOS, OS/2, and VMS are similar to the above: first unzip the distribution files into their own directory. Then under MSDOS do one of:
make makefile.msc make -fmakefile.bor
for Microsoft or Borland C++, respectively. Under OS/2:
nmake -f makefile.os2
for Microsoft C 6.00. Under VAX VMS:
@makevms
The installation process will also compile and link several other utilities. They are zipcloak for encrypting and decrypting zip files, zipnote for editing zip file comments, zipsplit for splitting a zip file into several zip files, and ship for sending zip files or any other binary file via electronic mail. For command help on any of the zip* utilities, simply enter the name with no arguments. For help with ship, enter "ship -h".
zip stuff *
This will create the file "stuff.zip" (assuming it does not exist) and put all the files in the current directory in stuff.zip in a compressed form. The .zip suffix is added automatically, unless that file name given contains a dot already. This allows specifying suffixes other than ".zip".
Because of the way the shell does filename substitution, files that start with a "." are not included. To include those as well, you can:
zip stuff .* *
Even this will not include any subdirectories that are in the current directory. To zip up an entire directory, the command:
zip -r foo foo
will create the file "foo.zip" containing all the files and directories in the directory "foo" that is in the current directory. The "r" option means recurse through the directory structure. In this case, all the files and directories in foo are zipped, including the ones that start with a ".", since the recursion does not use the shell's file-name substitution. You should not use -r with the name ".*", since that matches ".." which will attempt to zip up the parent directory--probably not what was intended.
You may want to make a zip file that contains the files in foo, but not record the directory name, foo. You can use the -j (junk path) option to leave off the path:
zip -j foo foo/*
The -y option (only under Unix) will store symbolic links as such in the zip file, instead of compressing and storing the file referred to in the link.
You might be zipping to save disk space, in which case you could:
zip -rm foo foo
where the "m" option means "move". This will delete foo and its contents after making foo.zip. No deletions will be done until the zip has completed with no errors. This option is obviously more dangerous and should be used with care.
If the zip file already exists, these commands will replace existing or add new entries to the zip file. For example, if you were really short on disk space, you might not have enough room simultaneously to hold the directory foo and the compressed foo.zip. In this case, you could do it in steps. If foo contained the subdirectories tom, dick, and harry, then you could:
zip -rm foo foo/tom zip -rm foo foo/dick zip -rm foo foo/harry
where the first command would create foo.zip, and the next two would add to it. At the completion of each zip command, the directory just zipped would be deleted, making room in which the next Zip command could work.
zip -r foo foo
will replace foo/file1 in foo.zip and add foo/file3 to foo.zip. After this, foo.zip contains foo/file1, foo/file2, and foo/file3, with foo/file2 unchanged from before.
When changing an existing zip file, Zip will write a temporary file with the new contents, and only replace the old one when the zip has completed with no errors. Also, the two methods, shrink and implode, create temporary files that are deleted after each file is zipped. You can use the -b option to specify a different path (usually a different device) to put the temporary files in. For example:
zip -b /tmp stuff *
will put the temporary zip file and the temporary compression files in the directory "/tmp", copying over stuff.zip in the current directory when done.
If you are only adding entries to a zip file, not replacing, and the -g option is given, then Zip grows (appends to) the file instead of copying it. The danger of this is that if the operation fails, the original zip file is corrupted and lost.
There are two other ways to change or add entries in a zip file that are restrictions of simple addition or replacement. The first is -u (update) which will add new entries to the zip file as before but will replace existing entries only if the modified date of the file is more recent than the date recorded for that name in the zip file. For example:
zip -u stuff *
will add any new files in the current directory, and update any changed files in the zip file stuff.zip. Note that Zip will not try to pack stuff.zip into itself when you do this. Zip will always exclude the zip file from the files on which to be operated.
The second restriction is -f (freshen) which, like update, will only replace entries with newer files; unlike update, will not add files that are not already in the zip file. For this option, you may want to simply freshen all of the files that are in the specified zip file. To do this you would simply:
zip -f foo
Note that the -f option with no arguments freshens all the entries in the zip file. The same is true of -u, and hence "zip -u foo" and "zip -f foo" both do the same thing.
This command should be run from the same directory from which the original zip command was run, since paths stored in zip files are always relative.
Another restriction that can be used with adding, updating, or freshening is -t (time), which will not operate on files modified earlier than the specified date. For example:
zip -rt 120791 infamy foo
will add all the files in foo and its subdirectories that were last modified on December 7, 1991, or later to the zip file infamy.zip.
Also, files can be explicitly excluded using the -x option:
zip -r foo foo -x \*.o
which will zip up the contents of foo into foo.zip but exclude all the files that end in ".o". Here the backslash causes Zip to match file names that were found when foo was searched.
The last operation is -d (delete) which will remove entries from a zip file. An example might be:
zip -d foo foo/tom/junk foo/harry/\* \*.o
which will remove the entry foo/tom/junk, all of the files that start with "foo/harry/", and all of the files that end with ".o" (in any path). Note that once again, the shell expansion has been inhibited with backslashes, so that Zip can see the asterisks. Zip can then match on the contents of the zip file instead of the contents of the current directory.
Under MSDOS, -d is case sensitive when it matches names in the zip file. This allows deleting names that were zipped on other systems, but requires that the names be entered in upper case if they were zipped on an MSDOS system, so that the names can be found in the zip file and deleted.
The option -s (shrink) will force Zip always to use shrink or store, and the -i (implode) option forces Zip to use implode or store. Shrinking is faster than imploding, and so -s might be used when speed is more important than optimal compression. Implode only (-i) might be used when the unzipper for which the zip file is destined can only handle implosion. An example of this is the PKSFXjr program that comes with PKZIP. Also, -i is slightly faster than imploding and shrinking at the same time. For example:
zip -rs foo foo
will zip up the directory foo into foo.zip using only shrink or store. The speed of implosion can also be controlled with options -0 (fastest method but less compression) to -9 (best compression but slower). The default value is -5. For example:
zip -r0 foo foo
In nearly all cases, a file that is already compressed cannot be compressed further by Zip, or if it can, the effect is minimal. The -n option prevents Zip from trying to compress files that have the suffixes: .Z, .zip, .zoo, or .arc. Such files are simply stored (0% compression) in the output zip file, so that Zip doesn't waste its time trying to compress them. If the environment variable NOZIP is set, then the suffixes listed there are used instead of the default list. The suffixes are separated by either colons or semicolons. For example, in Unix csh:
setenv NOZIP .Z:.zip:.tiff:.gif:.snd zip -rn foo foo
will put everything in foo into foo.zip, but will store any files that end in .Z, .zip, .tiff, .gif, or .snd without trying to compress them. (Image and sound files often have their own specialized compression methods.) If the environment variable NOZIP exists but is empty or contains just a colon or semicolon, then zip -n will store all the entries and do no compression.
Under Unix and under OS/2 (if files from a HPFS are stored), Zip will store the full path (relative to the current path) and name of the file (or just the name if -j is specified) in the zip file along with the Unix attributes, and it will mark the entry as made under Unix. If the zip file is intended for PKUNZIP under MSDOS, then the -k (Katz) option should be used to attempt to convert the names and paths to conform to MSDOS, store only the MSDOS attribute (just the user write attribute from Unix), and mark the entry as made under MSDOS (even though it wasn't).
The -o (older) option will set the "last modified" time of the zip file to the latest "last modified" time of the entries in the zip file. This can be used without any other operations, if desired. For example:
zip -o foo
will change the last modified time of foo.zip to the latest time of the entries in foo.zip.
The -e and -c options operate on all files updated or added to the zip file. Encryption (-e) will prompt for a password on the terminal and will not echo the password as it is typed (if stderr is not a TTY, Zip will exit with an error). New zip entries will be encrypted using that password. For added peace of mind, you can use -ee, which will prompt for the password twice, checking that the two are the same before using it.
One-line comments can be added for each file with the -c option. The zip file operations (adding or updating) will be done first, and you will then be prompted for a one-line comment for each file. You can then enter the comment followed by return, or just return for no comment.
The -z option will prompt you for a multi-line comment for the entire zip file. This option can be used by itself, or in combination with other options. The comment is ended by a line containing just a period, or an end of file condition (^D on Unix, ^Z on MSDOS, OS/2, and VAX/VMS). Since -z reads the lines from stdin, you can simply take the comment from a file:
zip -z foo < foowhat
The -q (quiet) option eliminates the informational messages and comment prompts while Zip is operating. This might be used in shell scripts, for example, or if the zip operation is being performed as a background task ("zip -q foo *.c &").
Zip can take a list of file names to operate on from stdin using the - option. In Unix, this option can be used with the find command to extend greatly the functionality of Zip. For example, to zip up all the C source files in the current directory and its subdirectories, you can:
find . -type f -name "*.[ch]" -print | zip source -
Note that the pattern must be quoted to keep the shell from expanding it.
Under VMS only, the -w option will append the version number of the files to the name and zip up multiple versions of files. Without -w, Zip will only use the most recent version of the specified file(s).
If Zip is run with no arguments or with the -h option, the license and the command-argument and option help is shown. The -l option just shows the license.
The Unix shell (sh or csh) does filename substitution on command arguments. The special characters are ?, which matches any single character; * which matches any number of characters (including none); and [] which matches any character in the range inside the brackets (like [a-f] or [0-9]). When these characters are encountered (and not escaped with a backslash or quotes), the shell will look for files relative to the current path that match the pattern, and replace the argument with a list of the names that matched.
Zip can do the same matching on names that are in the zip file being modified or, in the case of the -x (exclude) option, on the list of files to be operated on, by using backslashes or quotes to tell the shell not to do the name expansion. In general, when Zip encounters a name in the list of files to do, it first looks for the name in the file system. If it finds it, it then adds it to the list of files to do. If it does not find it, it will look for the name in the zip file being modified (if it exists), using the pattern matching characters above, if any. For each match, it will add that name to the list of files to do. After -x (exclude), the names are removed from the to-do list instead of added.
The pattern matching includes the path, and so patterns like \*.o match names that end in ".o", no matter what the path prefix is. Note that the backslash must precede every special character (i.e. ?*[]), or the entire argument must be enclosed in double quotes ("").
In general, using backslash to make Zip do the pattern matching is used with the -f (freshen) and -d (delete) options, and sometimes after the -x (exclude) option when used with any operation (add, -u, -f, or -d). Zip will never use pattern matching to search the file system. If Zip has recursed into a directory, all files (and all directories) in there are fair game.
Under MSDOS, Zip will find hidden and system files, but not set the attributes appropriately in the zip file so that Unzip can restore them. This will be fixed in the next version.
Under VMS, not all of the odd file formats are treated properly. Only stream-LF format zip files are expected to work with Zip. Others can be converted using Rahul Dhesi's BILF program. The next version of Zip will handle some of the conversion internally.
LIKE ANYTHING ELSE THAT'S FREE, ZIP AND ITS ASSOCIATED UTILITIES ARE PROVIDED AS IS AND COME WITH NO WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED. IN NO EVENT WILL THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES RESULTING FROM THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE.
That having been said, please send any problems or comments via email to the Internet address zip-bugs@cs.ucla.edu. For bug reports, please include the version of Zip, the make options you used to compile it, the machine and operating system you are using, and as much additional information as possible. Thank you for your support.