[TriLUG] Strangeness in the Zip-world

[shay walters via TriLUG]

Could it be that the program creating the zip file has an issue?  Have you
tried to unzip the file on a different platform to determine if the zip
file is corrupt?

-Shay



On Wed, Jul 3, 2019 at 2:50 PM Brian McCullough via TriLUG <
trilug at trilug.org> wrote:

>
> Folks,
>
> I have just started running into an issue where my old, tried and true,
> unzip in Debian 9 will not unzip ( new ) zip files that I am finding.
>
> I don't think that they are Windows zip files, since they are hosted on,
> and generated by, a Linux ( Debian ) machine with PHP 7.2.
>
> When I try to use unzip on these files, I get:
>
> Archive:  t1.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 t1.zip or
>         t1.zip.zip, and cannot find t1.zip.ZIP, period.
>
>
>
> This is a stand-alone file, definitely not part of a multi-part archive,
> with unzip running on a Debian 9 system.  I have had the same experience
> with all files that I try.  I can successfully unzip other files that
> were on my system already.
>
>
> Any suggestions?
>
>
> Thanks,
> Brian
>
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