I have these three files: 1.zip, 1.z01 and 1.z02. I would like to extract and join them into a single file, by right clicking 1.zip and selecting Extract Here. But then there comes an error:

7-Zip 9.04 beta Copyright (c) 1999-2009 Igor Pavlov 2009-05-30 p7zip Version 9.04 (locale=en_US.utf8,Utf16=on,HugeFiles=on,2 CPUs) Error: /home/tim/Desktop/1.zip: Can not open file as archive Errors: 1 

I was wondering what the problem is and how I can solve it?


ADDED:

Is my usage of unzip -FF wrong? It seems not working:

$ unzip -FF 1.zip Archive: 1.zip warning [1.zip]: zipfile claims to be last disk of a multi-part archive; attempting to process anyway, assuming all parts have been concatenated together in order. Expect "errors" and warnings...true multi-part support doesn't exist yet (coming soon). file #1: bad zipfile offset (local header sig): 0 

2nd ADDED:

Still ain't right:

$ cat 1.z01 1.z02 1.zip > combined.zip && unzip -FF combined.zip Archive: combined.zip warning [combined.zip]: zipfile claims to be last disk of a multi-part archive; attempting to process anyway, assuming all parts have been concatenated together in order. Expect "errors" and warnings...true multi-part support doesn't exist yet (coming soon). warning [combined.zip]: 209829313 extra bytes at beginning or within zipfile (attempting to process anyway) file #1: bad zipfile offset (local header sig): 209829313 (attempting to re-compensate) extracting: 1.wmv bad CRC ee181eef (should be f3c61875) 

It generated 1.wmv, which can play well only until midway in GNOME MPlayer.

3rd ADDED:

Am I using 7z wrongly?

$ 7z e 1.z01 7-Zip 9.04 beta Copyright (c) 1999-2009 Igor Pavlov 2009-05-30 p7zip Version 9.04 (locale=en_US.utf8,Utf16=on,HugeFiles=on,2 CPUs) Processing archive: 1.z01 Error: Can not open file as archive $ 7z e 1.zip 7-Zip 9.04 beta Copyright (c) 1999-2009 Igor Pavlov 2009-05-30 p7zip Version 9.04 (locale=en_US.utf8,Utf16=on,HugeFiles=on,2 CPUs) Processing archive: 1.zip Error: Can not open file as archive 

9 Answers

Try:

zip -FF 1.zip --out 1-full.zip unzip -FF 1-full.zip 

I think most likely some data is broken many times so you need the -FF still in unzip. A single -F may work also though.

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I have the same issue today with Mass Effect 3. Someone broke the installation of Mass Effect 3 in new version of origin on windows and my wine of course too (installation hangs on 99%). I have to make manually installation:

cp /mnt/cdrom1/Mass\ Effect\ 3.z01 ~/temp/Mass\ Effect\ 3.z01 cp /mnt/cdrom2/Mass\ Effect\ 3.zip ~/temp/Mass\ Effect\ 3.zip zip -FF Mass\ Effect\ 3.zip --out Mass\ Effect\ 3.zip.fixed mkdir Mass\ Effect\ 3 unzip -d Mass\ Effect\ 3/ Mass\ Effect\ 3.zip.fixed du --total Mass\ Effect\ 3 >> 10466048 (~10.5 GB => success) 

zip -FF should be applied to last part of archive, it will automatically check for all parts

Put all your zip files in the same directory: zip_file.z01, zip_file.z02, zip_file.z03, ..., zip_file.zip

In Zip 3.0 version the following commands worked for me:

$ zip -s- zip_file.zip -O zip_file_full.zip $ unzip zip_file_full.zip 

As noted in the comments, using a - sign after the command line option -s joins all the zip files together and writes it as a single zip file which you can then extract using the unzip command.

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I also had some issues. man unzip said the following:

Also, zip 3.0 and later can combine multi-part (split) archives into a combined single-file archive using ``zip -s- inarchive -O outarchive''.

This (zip -s- vmdkdisk -O combined) seems to work for me... (combine vmdkdisk.z01 and vmdkdisk.zip into one file combined.zip)

According to reading man zip, "Split .zip" archives can be recombined and unpacked using unzip -FF.

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Above solution by kmario23 is correct I see some typo errors. Here is another example.

 pramodimac:SDK pramod$ pwd /Users/pramod/Downloads/SDK pramodimac:SDK pramod$ ls -ltrh total 150104 -rw-r--r--@ 1 pramod staff 1.3M Jun 3 11:56 SDK.zip -rw-r--r--@ 1 pramod staff 18M Jun 3 11:58 SDK.z03 -rw-r--r--@ 1 pramod staff 18M Jun 3 11:58 SDK.z04 -rw-r--r--@ 1 pramod staff 18M Jun 3 11:58 SDK.z01 -rw-r--r--@ 1 pramod staff 18M Jun 3 11:58 SDK.z02 pramodimac:SDK pramod$ zip -s 0 SDK.zip --out single.zip pramodimac:SDK pramod$ ls -ltrh total 300208 -rw-r--r--@ 1 pramod staff 1.3M Jun 3 11:56 SDK.zip -rw-r--r--@ 1 pramod staff 18M Jun 3 11:58 SDK.z03 -rw-r--r--@ 1 pramod staff 18M Jun 3 11:58 SDK.z04 -rw-r--r--@ 1 pramod staff 18M Jun 3 11:58 SDK.z01 -rw-r--r--@ 1 pramod staff 18M Jun 3 11:58 SDK.z02 -rw-r--r-- 1 pramod staff 73M Jun 6 22:26 single.zip pramodimac:SDK pramod$ unzip single.zip 
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Go to the directory where the archives are, through terminal.

If they are on desktop, command is:

cd ~/Desktop 

~ is your home folder name. Create full archive, by using this command:

zip -F (name of last part of archive, which will end with .zip, not .z0X) --out (desired output name of compiled archive, if has spaces put " marks around the name).zip 

Full archive is now created.
Unpack the full archive, by using this command:

unzip (full archive name, with " marks around it if has spaces).zip -d (destination folder directory, see first step) 

It appears 7zip doesn't support multi-volume ZIP archives.

Igor Pavlov states it in this forum thread

Keep in mind that if your follow up files (01, 02 etc.. ) are created by Windows (Z01, Z02 etc..) your linux will not find them. You need to rename the files to z01, z02 ..