Re: [wlug] decompressing large zip files

On Wed, 22 May 2019 09:29:55 +1200, Peter Reutemann wrote:

Once in a while, I get large zip files from clients. Since they are running Windows, their zip tool doesn't have the same 4GB limitation that the unzip command-line tool under Linux usually has.

I just tried zipping and unzipping this file -rw-r--r-- 1 ldo users 7769948160 Dec 10 2015 new/distros/CentOS-7-x86_64-Everything-1511.iso which as you can see is over 7GB in size, using the standard Debian “zip” and “unzip” commands. Worked just fine. (For what it’s worth, the zip archive compressed the file down by just 3.4%.)