[TriLUG] Strangeness in the Zip-world

[William Sutton via TriLUG]

Also curious what `file` says it is compared with a file created on the 
system you're trying to unzip on.

William Sutton

On Wed, 3 Jul 2019, shay walters via TriLUG wrote:

> 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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