How to extract multi-part zip files

Posted by hendra
January 26, 2008

 

Have you ever seen these file ?

  • zipfiles.zip
  • zipfiles.z01
  • zipfiles.z02
  • zipfiles.z03
  • ……
  • zipfiles.z10

These are the multi-part of zipped files, which mean  one big file are to big to make archive so it should split  into several files. These files were created by winzip. Probably for many people (included me) it such a weird file, and they don’t know how to extract the file archives.

After my research in whole google how to extract it, here i want to share to you how to extract it.

For window platform
There are so many software has support for these extension such as winzip, winrar, 7-zip, and many other, put those file in one folder, and then just click with your supported software above, and whala…. the file  extracted.

For linux platform
The problem for newbie user in linux is they don’t now how to combine the command within. I got the problem too with these platform, but that’s why i like most with this platform, it challenged me to know. Alright then here the command for solve this problem.

hendra-k@server $ cat zipfiles.* > zipfiles-full.zip
hendra-k@server $ zip -F zipfiles-full.zip
hendra-k@server $ unzip zipfiles-full.zip

here the description for these command above :

hendra-k@server $ cat zipfiles.* > zipfiles-full.zip
= merging those file into one full zipped file

hendra-k@server $ zip -F zipfiles-full.zip
= Fixing the archive of the overall zipped files

hendra-k@server $ unzip zipfiles-full.zip
= Extract the full zipped fil

Hope this tutorial is usefull for you


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Comments
Comment by Brian on February 4, 2008 @ 11:15 pm

As a newbie :d this was very helpful
Thanks,
Brian

Comment by hendra-k on February 5, 2008 @ 1:20 am

@Brian
hi brian
thanks for your visiting to my blog, hope its helpful

Comment by Joe Toth on March 4, 2008 @ 6:25 pm

Great little tutorial, but shouldn’t it be >> not > ?

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Comment by aftab on May 23, 2008 @ 12:16 pm

Thanks that was great help!

Comment by jordi on June 28, 2008 @ 7:50 pm

dont fucking get it

Comment by jordi on June 28, 2008 @ 7:56 pm

Why bother linux anyways only gives you crap, i’m only trying to get a XP Pro image and it can’t even fucking unrar a file or deal with a multi-zip file8-|

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