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Tales from the Command Line…

list contents of zip file

Posted on September 24, 2013 by ForDoDone

# unzip -l /tmp/foo.zip 
Archive: /tmp/foo.zip
 Length       Date   Time   Name 
--------  ---------- -----  ------
10272349  2013-08-28 10:27  05.mp3
 9884692  2013-08-28 10:26  08.mp3
 8570210  2013-08-28 10:27  03.mp3
--------                    ------
28727251                    3 files

inspect .zip contents from command line

Posted on April 30, 2013 by ForDoDone

If you are browsing around in a terminal and want to see the contents of a .zip file, unzip is able to just list the contents but not actually extract them:

unzip -l myarchive.zip

Alternatively, if you want to open a .zip file in a GUI window to browse it’s contents do this:

file-roller myarchive.zip

It will open up Archive Manager to look at the contents.