[gentoo-user] Looking into zip files

[gentoo-user] Looking into zip files

[Mark Knecht]

Hi,
   I wonder if anyone knows of a GUI app that can display the
hierarchy in a large zip file - maybe hundreds of directories, tens of
thousands of files and a couple of gigs of zip - without actually
unzipping the archive and using up both time and disk space.

   Extra points for a program that can extract just a portion of the
zip file, like a single directory and its contents thus saving me disk
space dealing with this.

Thanks,
Mark
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Re: **SPAM** [gentoo-user] Looking into zip files

[Łukasz Dudek]

Dnia Sat, 22 Sep 2007 12:15:09 -0700
"Mark Knecht" <markknecht@gmail.com> napisał(a):

> Hi,
>    I wonder if anyone knows of a GUI app that can display the
> hierarchy in a large zip file - maybe hundreds of directories, tens of
> thousands of files and a couple of gigs of zip - without actually
> unzipping the archive and using up both time and disk space.
> 
>    Extra points for a program that can extract just a portion of the
> zip file, like a single directory and its contents thus saving me disk
> space dealing with this.
> 
> Thanks,
> Mark
ark??


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Re: **SPAM** [gentoo-user] Looking into zip files

[Mark Knecht]

On 9/22/07, Łukasz Dudek <lsdudi@poczta.fm> wrote:
> Dnia Sat, 22 Sep 2007 12:15:09 -0700
> "Mark Knecht" <markknecht@gmail.com> napisał(a):
>
> > Hi,
> >    I wonder if anyone knows of a GUI app that can display the
> > hierarchy in a large zip file - maybe hundreds of directories, tens of
> > thousands of files and a couple of gigs of zip - without actually
> > unzipping the archive and using up both time and disk space.
> >
> >    Extra points for a program that can extract just a portion of the
> > zip file, like a single directory and its contents thus saving me disk
> > space dealing with this.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Mark
> ark??
>

Thanks. arK looks like a good candidate. I tried mc but haven't
figured out the keyboard commands ot make it do anything. Drag and
drop in ark looks good for my needs.

Thanks!

Cheers,
Mark

Re: [gentoo-user] Looking into zip files

[Walter Dnes]

On Sat, Sep 22, 2007 at 02:11:33PM -0700, Mark Knecht wrote

> I tried mc but haven't figured out the keyboard commands ot make it
> do anything. Drag and drop in ark looks good for my needs.

  If you go "Options ==> Layout ==> Keybar visible" you'll see the
following line at the bottom of your screen...

1Help   2Menu   3View   4Edit   5Copy   6RenMov 7Mkdir  8Delete 9PullDn 10Quit

  That means {F1} = Help and {F5} = Copy, etc.  You can tag/untag
multiple files by using the "Insert" key.  When one or more files are
tagged, {F5} copies them as a group.  "+" defaults to "Tag all" and
"-" defaults to untag all, but they do prompt, so you can specify a
pattern (e.g. *.c if you want to tag/untag all C source files in the
current directory). 

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Re: [gentoo-user] Looking into zip files

[Robert Szentmihalyi]

On Samstag, 22. September 2007, Mark Knecht wrote:
> Hi,
>    I wonder if anyone knows of a GUI app that can display the
> hierarchy in a large zip file - maybe hundreds of directories, tens of
> thousands of files and a couple of gigs of zip - without actually
> unzipping the archive and using up both time and disk space.
>
>    Extra points for a program that can extract just a portion of the
> zip file, like a single directory and its contents thus saving me disk
> space dealing with this.
>
> Thanks,
> Mark

Midnight Commander can do that.

hth,
Robert

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Re: [gentoo-user] Looking into zip files

[Liviu Andronic]

On 9/22/07, Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>    I wonder if anyone knows of a GUI app that can display the
> hierarchy in a large zip file - maybe hundreds of directories, tens of
> thousands of files and a couple of gigs of zip - without actually
> unzipping the archive and using up both time and disk space.

emelFM2 has a handy file.open entry: "List contents". Select the item,
right-click and select "List contents". It might suit your needs. If
you synced portage recently, then you can simply emerge emelfm2.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Looking into zip files

[Philip Webb]

On 9/22/07, Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com> wrote:
> Is there a GUI app that can display the hierarchy in a large zip file
> maybe hundreds of directories, tens of thousands of files
> and a couple of gigs of zip - without actually unzipping the archive
> and using up both time and disk space.

Any app which looks inside the archive will have to unpack it,
but it does so in  /tmp  rather than in your own working dirs,
then displays the result in one of its panels.
>From there you can copy any of the contents to a dir of your choice,
where it becomes a real dir/file you can manipulate at will.

Krusader (needs some KDE) is probably the most powerful file manager around.
I used it recently to look inside a Stage-3 tarball ( .tar.bz2 ):
it took perhaps  1 min  to display contents of the  120 MB  archive.
The manual is very good (with a few errors here & there).

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Re: [gentoo-user] Looking into zip files

[Neil Bothwick]

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Hello Philip Webb,

> > Is there a GUI app that can display the hierarchy in a large zip file
> > maybe hundreds of directories, tens of thousands of files
> > and a couple of gigs of zip - without actually unzipping the archive
> > and using up both time and disk space.  
> 
> Any app which looks inside the archive will have to unpack it,
> but it does so in  /tmp  rather than in your own working dirs,

There's absolutely no need to unpack a zip to list the contents, unzip -l
will do this, which is how file managers also do it. If you want to
access the contents of a single file, the file manager will extract only
that file.

Konqueror handles this totally transparently, allowing you to list the
contents and copy or read individual files as if the zip (or tar) archive
were a directory.


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