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FUNZIP(1L)							      FUNZIP(1L)

NAME
     funzip - filter for extracting from a ZIP archive in a pipe

SYNOPSIS
     funzip [-password] [input[.zip|.gz]]

ARGUMENTS
     [-password]
	    Optional  password	to be used if ZIP archive is encrypted.  Decryp-
	    tion may not be supported at some sites.  See DESCRIPTION  for  more
	    details.

     [input[.zip|.gz]]
	    Optional  input  archive file specification. See DESCRIPTION for de-
	    tails.

DESCRIPTION
     funzip without a file argument acts as a filter; that is, it assumes that a
     ZIP archive (or a gzip'd(1) file) is being piped into standard  input,  and
     it  extracts the first member from the archive to stdout.	When stdin comes
     from a tty device, funzip assumes that this cannot be a stream of	(binary)
     compressed  data  and shows a short help text, instead.  If there is a file
     argument, then input is read from the specified file instead of from stdin.

     A password for encrypted zip files can be specified  on  the  command  line
     (preceding  the  file  name, if any) by prefixing the password with a dash.
     Note that this constitutes a security risk on many systems; currently  run-
     ning  processes  are  often  visible via simple commands (e.g., ps(1) under
     Unix), and command-line histories can be read.  If the first entry  of  the
     zip  file	is  encrypted  and no password is specified on the command line,
     then the user is prompted for a password and the password is not echoed  on
     the console.

     Given  the limitation on single-member extraction, funzip is most useful in
     conjunction with a secondary archiver program such as tar(1).  The  follow-
     ing section includes an example illustrating this usage in the case of disk
     backups to tape.

EXAMPLES
     To  use funzip to extract the first member file of the archive test.zip and
     to pipe it into more(1):

     funzip test.zip | more

     To use funzip to test the first member file of test.zip (any errors will be
     reported on standard error):

     funzip test.zip > /dev/null

     To use zip and funzip in place of compress(1) and zcat(1) (or gzip(1L)  and
     gzcat(1L)) for tape backups:

     tar cf - . | zip -7 | dd of=/dev/nrst0 obs=8k
     dd if=/dev/nrst0 ibs=8k | funzip | tar xf -

     (where, for example, nrst0 is a SCSI tape drive).

BUGS
     When  piping  an encrypted file into more and allowing funzip to prompt for
     password, the terminal may sometimes be reset to a non-echo mode.	This  is
     apparently due to a race condition between the two programs; funzip changes
     the  terminal  mode  to non-echo before more reads its state, and more then
     ``restores'' the terminal to this mode before  exiting.   To  recover,  run
     funzip  on  the same file but redirect to /dev/null rather than piping into
     more; after prompting again for the password, funzip will reset the  termi-
     nal properly.

     There  is	presently  no way to extract any member but the first from a ZIP
     archive.  This would be useful in the case where a ZIP archive is	included
     within another archive.  In the case where the first member is a directory,
     funzip simply creates the directory and exits.

     The  functionality  of funzip should be incorporated into unzip itself (fu-
     ture release).

SEE ALSO
     gzip(1L), unzip(1L), unzipsfx(1L), zip(1L), zipcloak(1L), zipinfo(1L), zip-
     note(1L), zipsplit(1L)

URL
     The Info-ZIP home page is currently at
     http://www.info-zip.org/pub/infozip/
     or
     ftp://ftp.info-zip.org/pub/infozip/ .

AUTHOR
     Mark Adler (Info-ZIP)

Info-ZIP		      20 April 2009 (v3.95)		      FUNZIP(1L)

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