Mac Terminal unzip zip64

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Evan picture Evan · Aug 27, 2015 · Viewed 11.8k times · Source

I have Mac OS 10.9.5. I have downloaded a large zip file off of the internet that the owner changed to a zip64 for me so it could work. I try unzipping the file with unzip SNPsnap_gcan_3_500.zip but I get the following error

End-of-central-directory signature not found. Either this file is not a zipfile, or it constitutes one disk of a multi-part archive. In the latter case the central directory and zipfile comment will be found on the last disk(s) of this archive. unzip: cannot find zipfile directory in one of SNPsnap_gcan_3_500.zip or SNPsnap_gcan_3_500.zip.zip, and cannot find SNPsnap_gcan_3_500.zip.ZIP, period.

I have no clue how to unzip this file. Any thoughts?

Answer

Markus picture Markus · Nov 17, 2015

without any installation, comes with the OS.

open a terminal window (e.g. cmd + space -> terminal -> Enter>

enter ditto -xk YourZipfile.zip ./

works.

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