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?

Solution 1

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.

Solution 2

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

Solution 3

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.

Solution 4

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

Solution 5

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.

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Comments

[polson136]

Maybe the file is FUBR?

[Admin]

thanks for the hint, but i get the same result as with "zip -F" :(

[Goyuix]

You can also just extract the actual executable from the installer using 7-Zip. Works like a charm.

[Rein]

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.

[dance2die]

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.

[xd1936]

Saved the day, Ubuntu 20.04. Thanks!

[holocronweaver]

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.

[Admin]

Worked great on partial zip archive.