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| ID | Project | Category | View Status | Date Submitted | Last Update |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0000653 | file | General | public | 2025-05-08 20:10 | 2025-05-28 16:46 |
| Reporter | onnimonni | Assigned To | christos | ||
| Priority | normal | Severity | minor | Reproducibility | always |
| Status | feedback | Resolution | open | ||
| Product Version | 5.41 | ||||
| Summary | 0000653: Can't peak into zip archive which has JSON files inside | ||||
| Description | Hey, I checked all arguments for 'file' and saw useful '-z' flag: $ file --help Usage: file [OPTION...] [FILE...] Determine type of FILEs. --help display this help and exit -v, --version output version information and exit -m, --magic-file LIST use LIST as a colon-separated list of magic number files -M LIST use LIST as a colon-separated list of magic number files in place of default LIST use LIST as a colon-separated list of magic number files in place of default -z, --uncompress try to look inside compressed files I tried couple of different zip files which have json files inside of them. I can peak into them with MacOS finder or with `atool` but not with `file`. | ||||
| Steps To Reproduce | First visit https://api.zone.eu/v2 and click Download. $ cd ~/Downloads $ zip swagger.zip swagger.json $ file swagger.zip swagger.zip: Zip archive data, at least v2.0 to extract, compression method=deflate $ file -z swagger.zip swagger.zip: ERROR:[gzip: Unknown compression format] (Zip archive data, at least v2.0 to extract, compression method=deflate) | ||||
| Additional Information | It works well with gzipped archives and I thought that maybe it should for zip files too? Anyway thanks for maintaining this magnificent piece of software : ) ! | ||||
| Tags | No tags attached. | ||||
