On Thu, 13 Mar 2025, Eli Schwartz wrote:
> unzip will not permit you to run: > > ``` > unzip foo.zip ./dir1/member > ``` > > in order to extract an archive member named "dir1/member". There is no > ./ member in the archive, it's not resolved like a filesystem path. > > It will print a diagnostic: "caution: filename not matched: > ./dir1/member" and exit 11 (no matching files were found.) Correct. Tried that, doesn't work. The whole unzip commandline parsing looks quite fragile to me: ``` unzip [-Z] [-cflptTuvz[abjnoqsCDKLMUVWX$/:^]] file[.zip] [file(s) ...] [-x xfile(s) ...] [-d exdir] ``` (e.g. it allows optional arguments to be followed after any number of member files). Thanks, Christian -- "Problem solving under linux has never been the circus that it is under AIX." (By Pete Ehlke in comp.unix.aix)
