Zip functionality with split?

rudeboymcc · 16 Apr 2012 at 14:34

Hi. In Windows, winzip can split an archive over many files, and I just specifiy how big I want each chunk to be. The final result is many files named z01, z02,z03, all exactly the same size apart from the last one.

Is there a way to do this in linux? I 've found zipsplit, but this actually just spreads the files across multiple zip files and zips them in batches, rather than just splitting the final zip file. (I can't use this as it has a 2gb file size limit).

rudeboymcc · 16 Apr 2012 at 15:00

Sorry, to clarify, I need to create an archive in linux that's split over many chunks, and then be able to unzip it in Windows (preferably with winzip).

rudeboymcc · 16 Apr 2012 at 15:24

The problem with 7zip is that it splits the zip file in parts ending in 001,002,003 etc, which winzip doesn't understand.

So the user needs to have 7zip or some other file joiner to merge the files together and then unzip them.

With winzip, when creating a split archive, it creates a single .zip file, and then the rest are called z01,z02,z03 etc. unzipping the .zip file will automatically read the rest of the files.

rudeboymcc · 18 Apr 2012 at 18:01

My users aren't clever enough to recombine themselves, so a Winzip option is a must.

zip 3+ looks like it does what I need (judging by the filenames as this is exactly the same output from winzip). But I'm having trouble finding an RPM package for Centos 5. Where's the best place to get it from?