Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Looking into zip files
Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2007 22:19:32
Message-Id: 20070929230001.7aa50a34@krikkit.digimed.co.uk
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Looking into zip files by Philip Webb
1 Hello Philip Webb,
2
3 > > Is there a GUI app that can display the hierarchy in a large zip file
4 > > maybe hundreds of directories, tens of thousands of files
5 > > and a couple of gigs of zip - without actually unzipping the archive
6 > > and using up both time and disk space.
7 >
8 > Any app which looks inside the archive will have to unpack it,
9 > but it does so in /tmp rather than in your own working dirs,
10
11 There's absolutely no need to unpack a zip to list the contents, unzip -l
12 will do this, which is how file managers also do it. If you want to
13 access the contents of a single file, the file manager will extract only
14 that file.
15
16 Konqueror handles this totally transparently, allowing you to list the
17 contents and copy or read individual files as if the zip (or tar) archive
18 were a directory.
19
20
21 --
22 Neil Bothwick
23
24 NOTICE:
25 -- THE ELEVATORS WILL BE OUT OF ORDER TODAY --
26 (The nearest working elevators are in the building
27 across the street.)

Attachments

File name MIME type
signature.asc application/pgp-signature