Wanted: Unix zip command-line program with zip64 support

32bit-64bitcompression

Is there a Unix command-line program that implements ZIP with ZIP64 support? The standard zip program won't ZIP files bigger than 2**32 bytes.

I don't want to use .tar.gz format, because with ZIP I can access the files without decompressing the entire archive.

I don't want to use 7zip because there is no native Python support for 7zip archives.

Thanks.

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Last time I checked Info-zip was available for just about every OS ever invented and it does do zip64. You may have to build it yourself for your particular system. You don't say which Unix you've got but there is a high chance they are pre-build packages available for yours already.

Just check out the home-page

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It's not built into Windows, but it's in the Resource Kit Tools as COMPRESS,

C:\>compress /?

Syntax:

COMPRESS [-R] [-D] [-S] [ -Z | -ZX ] Source Destination
COMPRESS -R [-D] [-S] [ -Z | -ZX ] Source [Destination]

Description:
Compresses one or more files.

Parameter List:
-R Rename compressed files.

-D Update compressed files only if out of date.

-S Suppress copyright information.

-ZX LZX compression. This is default compression.

-Z MS-ZIP compression.

Source Source file specification. Wildcards may be
used.

Destination Destination file | path specification.
Destination may be a directory. If Source is
multiple files and -r is not specified,
Destination must be a directory.

Examples:

COMPRESS temp.txt compressed.txt
COMPRESS -R *.*
COMPRESS -R *.exe *.dll compressed_dir

Centos – Command-line ZIP client

Use

zip file.zip *

Notice how the arguments are backwards compared to your original example.

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