Sample Unzip Summary - UN*X

$ unzip -h ! Or Unzip -?

UnZip 5.32 of 3 November 1997, by Info-ZIP. For more details see: unzip -v.

Usage: unzip [-Z] [-opts[modifiers]] file[.zip] [list] [-x xlist] [-d exdir]

Default action is to extract files in list, except those in xlist, to exdir;

file[.zip] may be a wildcard. "-Z" => ZipInfo mode (`unzip "-Z"' for usage).

-p extract files to pipe, no messages -l list files (short format)

-f freshen existing files, create none -t test compressed archive data

-u update files, create if necessary -z display archive comment

-x exclude files that follow (in xlist) -d extract files into exdir

modifiers: -q quiet mode (-qq => quieter)

-n never overwrite existing files -a auto-convert any text files

-o overwrite files WITHOUT prompting -aa treat ALL files as text

-j junk paths (do not make directories) -v be verbose/print version info

"-C" match filenames case-insensitively "-L" make (some) names lowercase

"-X" restore owner/protection info "-V" retain VMS version numbers

"-M" pipe through "more" pager

Examples (see unzip.doc for more info):

unzip data1 -x joe => extract all files except joe from zipfile data1.zip

unzip "-V" foo "Bar" => must quote uppercase options and filenames in VMS

unzip -fo foo vms.c => quietly replace existing vms.c if archive file newer

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