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by eadler 1915 days ago
tar(1) can extract zip files.

tar xf file.zip

Works perfectly
1 comments
capableweb 1915 days ago
What tar are you running? I'm running `tar (GNU tar) 1.34` and get a `This does not look like a tar archive` error when trying to extract a zip file.
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eadler 1915 days ago
both

bsdtar 3.4.3 - libarchive 3.4.3 zlib/1.2.11 liblzma/5.2.5 bz2lib/1.0.8 libzstd/1.4.5

and

bsdtar 2.8.3 - libarchive 2.8.3

seem to do the job.

I don't use GNU based tools much so I'm unsure if you need special flags for them.

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