At Sat, 13 Mar 2010 18:53:49 -0500 CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org> wrote: > > I have a zip file. It is over 2Gb in size: > > -rw-r--r-- 1 sweh sweh 2383956582 Mar 13 13:44 test.zip > > The standard "unzip" program barfs: > % unzip -l test.zip > Archive: test.zip > End-of-central-directory signature not found. Either this file is not > a zipfile, or it constitutes one disk of a multi-part archive. In the > latter case the central directory and zipfile comment will be found on > the last disk(s) of this archive. > unzip: cannot find zipfile directory in one of test.zip or > test.zip.zip, and cannot find test.zip.ZIP, period. > > This is because the info-zip utilities can't handle ZIP files over 2Gb in > size. > > Windows can access it just fine. > > Anyone have any recommendations on a unix tool that'll let me access these > large files? Random thought (total guess): What happens if you use split on the zip file and try to get info zip to think it is a multi-part archive? > -- Robert Heller -- 978-544-6933 Deepwoods Software -- Download the Model Railroad System http://www.deepsoft.com/ -- Binaries for Linux and MS-Windows heller at deepsoft.com -- http://www.deepsoft.com/ModelRailroadSystem/