terminal tool (linux) for repair corrupted zip files

Question

I've a corrupt zip file. I've tried to repair it with

zip -F file.zip

and

zip -FF file.zip

but was not successful. Is there another terminal tool under Linux for repairing?

score 137 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 11 '11 at 18:44

137

try this

zip -FF Corrupted.zip --out New.zip

This will scan the corrupted zip archive and make a new one eliminating the errors.

As a result you will get a new zip file. Then simply run this command.

unzip New.zip

Hope this helps.

answered Dec 11 '11 at 18:44

Desi

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Thanks for this answer. Doing it this way didn't really give me a working zip-file, running the command again over the new zip file did do the trick. It was a desperate move, didn't expect it to work. – Rein Nov 06 '16 at 12:28
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Worked great on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS~ Context: my zip was created on Windows 10, uploaded to OneDrive, and downloaded in Ubuntu. Zip worked on Windows but not on Ubuntu but the answer fixed the issue. – dance2die Aug 01 '20 at 18:56
Saved the day, Ubuntu 20.04. Thanks! – xd1936 Oct 12 '20 at 20:16
@Desi: AWESOME (MacOS 11.6.1) many thanks! – ecjb Aug 22 '22 at 14:59

score 29 · Answer 2 · edited Mar 20 '17 at 10:04

Just referenced this question in my answer to a similar one - Linux Mint 12 - how to open a .zip file in terminal

It is worth adding here what the zip manual currently says about the difference between -F and -FF:

The single -F is more reliable if the archive is not too much damaged, so try this option first.

So the first attempt would be:

zip -F broken.zip --out fixed.zip
unzip fixed.zip

And if that doesn't work:

zip -FF broken.zip --out fixed.zip
unzip fixed.zip

score 12 · Answer 3 · answered Aug 02 '21 at 07:38

12

I recently encountered a .zip file that neither zip -F file.zip nor zip -FF file.zip could fix. However,

7z x file.zip

was able to extract all the files. Hence, trying out p7zip could be a good idea. If needed, you can then pack the extracted files into a new archive.

answered Aug 02 '21 at 07:38

H. Rittich

This worked for me when unzipping an archive created on Windows, where `zip` was unable to recognize the beginning of the file and gave up, while `7z` reported `Header errors` and then proceeded to extract the 11 GB+ zip successfully. – holocronweaver Apr 23 '22 at 00:59
Worked great on partial zip archive. – mOlind Jun 24 '22 at 08:18
And p7Zip appears to be a fork of 7-zip https://www.7-zip.org/ – Mark Stewart Aug 23 '22 at 18:16

score 6 · Answer 4 · answered Aug 30 '09 at 04:59

6

DiskInternals ZIP Repair works perfectly under Wine it's saved me in the past.

answered Aug 30 '09 at 04:59

John T

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You can also just extract the actual executable from the installer using 7-Zip. Works like a charm. – Goyuix Sep 25 '10 at 15:46

score 5 · Answer 5 · answered Aug 13 '09 at 21:24

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I'm not aware of a program that will do a better job repairing the archive though.

You might try

unzip -vt file.zip

just to see if maybe you can extract some of the files safely, or figure out which files in the archive are corrupt.

answered Aug 13 '09 at 21:24

Guy

2

thanks for the hint, but i get the same result as with "zip -F" :( – Aug 13 '09 at 21:33

score 0 · Answer 6 · answered May 23 '22 at 07:39

Due to permission errors, a ZIP process of mine crashed consistently before moving the temporary ZIP file into the final ZIP file.

The result was a folder full of temporary files named zi<random>, e.g. zi0Be571a.

zip -F did not work, nor did zip -FF, 7z x, ziprecover. The error was that the file did not contain a central directory.

On Windows, WinRAR gave an error but did display the (partial) file contents.

DiskInternals ZipRecover was able to scan the temporary file and reconstruct the central directory, yielding a perfectly recovered Zip file.

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