Questions tagged [zip]
ZIP is a format for compressed file archives, allowing packaging of multiple files and directories into a single file.
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How are zlib, gzip and zip related? What do they have in common and how are they different?
The compression algorithm used in zlib is essentially the same as that in gzip and zip. What are gzip and zip? How are they different and how are they same?
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How to create a zip archive of a directory?
How can I create a zip archive of a directory structure in Python?
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Unzipping files in Python
I read through the zipfile documentation, but couldn't understand how to unzip a file, only how to zip a file. How do I unzip all the contents of a zip file into the same directory?
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Create zip file and ignore directory structure
I need to create a zip file using this command:
zip /dir/to/file/newZip /data/to/zip/data.txt
This works, but the created zip file creates a directory structure mimicking the directory to the raw ...
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How can you zip or unzip from the script using ONLY Windows' built-in capabilities?
In Windows you can zip some files by
right click → Send to → Compressed (zipped) folder
And unzip by double clicking on the .zip file and extract the files.
Is there a way to apply ...
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How to create a zip archive with PowerShell?
Is it possible to create a zip archive using PowerShell?
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What is a good Java library to zip/unzip files? [closed]
I looked at the default Zip library that comes with the JDK and the Apache compression libs and I am unhappy with them for 3 reasons:
They are bloated and have bad API design. I have to write 50 ...
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BitBucket - download source as ZIP
I know I can get the project through git clone command, but is there any way, how to download the project through the web interface from BitBucket.org?
In the best way, I am looking for a way to ...
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Is there a zip-like function that pads to longest length?
Is there a built-in function that works like zip() but that will pad the results so that the length of the resultant list is the length of the longest input rather than the shortest input?
>>&...
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What is the difference between tar and zip? [closed]
What is the difference between tar and zip? What are the use cases for each?
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Mac zip compress without __MACOSX folder?
When I compress files with the built in zip compressor in Mac OSX, it causes an extra folder titled "__MACOSX" to be created in the extracted zip.
Can I adjust my settings to keep this ...
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Creating a ZIP archive in memory using System.IO.Compression
I'm trying to create a ZIP archive with a simple demo text file using a MemoryStream as follows:
using (var memoryStream = new MemoryStream())
using (var archive = new ZipArchive(memoryStream , ...
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Fatal error: Class 'ZipArchive' not found in
I have a problem when I install 'Archive_Zip 0.1.1' on the Linux server, but when I try to run the script to create the zip file it gives the fatal error
Fatal error: Class ZipArchive not found in ......
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How do I ZIP a file in C#, using no 3rd-party APIs?
I'm pretty sure this is not a duplicate so bear with me for just a minute.
How can I programatically (C#) ZIP a file (in Windows) without using any third party libraries? I need a native windows call ...
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.rar, .zip files MIME Type
I'm developing a simple php upload script, and users can upload only ZIP and RAR files.
What MIME types I should use to check $_FILES[x][type]? (a complete list please)
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How to unzip a file using the command line? [closed]
Which commands can be used via the command line to unzip a file?
Preferably something built into Windows or open source/free tools.
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How to create full compressed tar file using Python?
How can I create a .tar.gz file with compression in Python?
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Read a zipped file as a pandas DataFrame
I'm trying to unzip a csv file and pass it into pandas so I can work on the file.
The code I have tried so far is:
import requests, zipfile, StringIO
r = requests.get('http://data.octo.dc.gov/feeds/...
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How to zip a whole folder using PHP
I have found here at stackoveflow some code on how to ZIP a specific file, but how about a specific folder?
Folder/
index.html
picture.jpg
important.txt
inside in My Folder, there are files. ...
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How to create a zip file in Java
I have a dynamic text file that picks content from a database according to the user's query. I have to write this content into a text file and zip it in a folder in a servlet. How should I do this?
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Need to ZIP an entire directory using Node.js
I need to zip an entire directory using Node.js. I'm currently using node-zip and each time the process runs it generates an invalid ZIP file (as you can see from this Github issue).
Is there another,...
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How to use Python's pip to download and keep the zipped files for a package?
If I want to use the pip command to download a package (and its dependencies), but keep all of the zipped files that get downloaded (say, django-socialregistration.tar.gz) - is there a way to do that?
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Using R to download zipped data file, extract, and import data
@EZGraphs on Twitter writes:
"Lots of online csvs are zipped. Is there a way to download, unzip the archive, and load the data to a data.frame using R? #Rstats"
I was also trying to do this today, ...
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Download Returned Zip file from URL
If I have a URL that, when submitted in a web browser, pops up a dialog box to save a zip file, how would I go about catching and downloading this zip file in Python?
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How does one make a Zip bomb?
This question about zip bombs naturally led me to the Wikipedia page on the topic. The article mentions an example of a 45.1 kb zip file that decompresses to 1.3 exabytes.
What are the principles/...
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Python: Open file in zip without temporarily extracting it
How can I open files in a zip archive without extracting them first?
I'm using pygame. To save disk space, I have all the images zipped up.
Is it possible to load a given image directly from the zip ...
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Zip with list output instead of tuple
What is the fastest and most elegant way of doing list of lists from two lists?
I have
In [1]: a=[1,2,3,4,5,6]
In [2]: b=[7,8,9,10,11,12]
In [3]: zip(a,b)
Out[3]: [(1, 7), (2, 8), (3, 9), (4, 10), ...
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Download multiple files as a zip-file using php
How can I download multiple files as a zip-file using php?
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How do I export my project as a .zip of git repository?
I was recently asked to export as a .zip file one of my projects on my Git repository.
I have actually never had to do this in the 4 years I have been using Git.
I would prefer an answer that is all ...
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How to download/checkout a project from Google Code in Windows?
How do I download a ZIP file of an entire project from Google Code when there are no prepared downloads available?
This is what I see on the checkout page:
Command-line access
Use this command ...
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I didn't find "ZipFile" class in the "System.IO.Compression" namespace
I can't use "Zipfile" class in the name space "System.IO.Compression" my code is :
using System;
using System.IO;
using System.IO.Compression;
namespace ConsoleApplication
{
class Program
{
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How to [recursively] Zip a directory in PHP? [duplicate]
Directory is something like:
home/
file1.html
file2.html
Another_Dir/
file8.html
Sub_Dir/
file19.html
I am using the same PHP Zip class used in PHPMyAdmin http://trac....
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How to update one file in a zip archive
Is it possible to replace a file in a zip file without unzipping?
The file to update is an XML file that resides in a huge zip archive. To update this XML file, I have to unzip the archive, delete the ...
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Python in-memory zip library
Is there a Python library that allows manipulation of zip archives in memory, without having to use actual disk files?
The ZipFile library does not allow you to update the archive. The only way ...
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Pairs from single list [duplicate]
Often enough, I've found the need to process a list by pairs. I was wondering which would be the pythonic and efficient way to do it, and found this on Google:
pairs = zip(t[::2], t[1::2])
I thought ...
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Simplest way to download and unzip files in Node.js cross-platform?
Just looking for a simple solution to downloading and unzipping .zip or .tar.gz files in Node.js on any operating system.
Not sure if this is built in or I have to use a separate library. Any ideas? ...
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How to read data from a zip file without having to unzip the entire file
Is there anyway in .Net (C#) to extract data from a zip file without decompressing the complete file?
I possibly want to extract data (file) from the start of a zip file if the compression algorithm ...
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Zip including hidden files
In Linux I can zip all(except hidden files) in current directory by doing:
zip 1.zip *
But how do I include the hidden files?
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get file list of files contained in a zip file
I have a zip archive: my_zip.zip. Inside it is one txt file, the name of which I do not know. I was taking a look at Python's zipfile module ( http://docs.python.org/library/zipfile.html ), but couldn'...
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Can I zip more than two lists together in Scala?
Given the following Scala List:
val l = List(List("a1", "b1", "c1"), List("a2", "b2", "c2"), List("a3", "b3", "c3"))
How can I get:
List(("a1", "a2", "a3"), ("b1", "b2", "b3"), ("c1", "c2", "c3"))
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How to eliminate absolute path in zip archive if absolute paths for files are provided?
I have two files in two different directories, one is '/home/test/first/first.pdf', the other is '/home/text/second/second.pdf'. I use following code to compress them:
import zipfile, StringIO
buffer =...
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7-Zip command to create and extract a password-protected ZIP file on Windows? [closed]
On Mac/Linux to zip/unzip password protected zip files, I use:
Zip:
zip -P password -r encrypted.zip folderIWantToZip
Unzip:
unzip -P password encrypted.zip
What are the equivalent command on ...
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In Linux, zip multiple directories in one named zip file [closed]
I have the following directories, I want to zip up into the same zip file. Can someone provide the correct syntax?
ie. zipping the following directories:
/home/users/jlefler/files
/opt/software/...
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Install php-zip on php 5.6 on Ubuntu [duplicate]
I can't install php-zip on my Ubuntu VM with the last php5.6.
Can't find find anything clear on it.
I still get that Apache error :
PHP Fatal error: Class 'ZipArchive' not found in /var/www/uta/...
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Can Git treat ZIP files as directories and files inside the ZIP as blobs?
The scenario
Imagine I am forced to work with some of my files always stored inside .zip files. Some of the files inside the ZIP file are small text files and change often, while others are larger but ...
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Read Content from Files which are inside Zip file
I am trying to create a simple java program which reads and extracts the content from the file(s) inside zip file. Zip file contains 3 files (txt, pdf, docx). I need to read the contents of all these ...
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Unzipping files
I want to display OpenOffice files, .odt and .odp at client side using a web browser.
These files are zipped files. Using Ajax, I can get these files from server but these are zipped files. I have ...
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java.util.zip.ZipException: error in opening zip file
I have a Jar file, which contains other nested Jars. When I invoke the new JarFile() constructor on this file, I get an exception which says:
java.util.zip.ZipException: error in opening zip file
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Extracting a zipfile to memory?
How do I extract a zip to memory?
My attempt (returning None on .getvalue()):
from zipfile import ZipFile
from StringIO import StringIO
def extract_zip(input_zip):
return StringIO(ZipFile(...
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How can I list the files in a zip archive without decompressing it?
How can I get the equivalent of an ls of a .zip file (not gzip), without decompressing it, from the command shell? That is, how can I list the different files compressed within my .zip archive?
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