On a cluster I zipped a large (61GB, 9.2GB when zipped) directory.
zip -r zzDirectory Directory
I then scp the zzDirectory on my personal computer.
scp -r name@host.com:/path/to/zzDirectory.zip path/in/my/computer/zzDirectory.zip
And finally I unzipped it. I tried to unzip from the bash but it failed
warning [zzDirectory.zip]: 5544449626 extra bytes at beginning or within zipfile
(attempting to process anyway)
error [zzDirectory.zip]: start of central directory not found;
zipfile corrupt.
(please check that you have transferred or created the zipfile in the
appropriate BINARY mode and that you have compiled UnZip properly)
So I doubled click on the icon from the finder and the system started to unzip zzDirectory.zip. However, some files are missing and it looks like (I am not 100% sure yet) that some newline characters (\n) are missing as well. unzip used to work fine on my computer before.
In order to investigate where the problem come from, I unzipped zzDirectory.zip on the cluster and everything seem to work fine (no missing files).
I repeated the transfer and unzipped again but the problem persists. Note that transfers are made via internet. My OS is Mac OSX Yosemite 10.10.2.
How can I solve this issue? I would prefer not to transfer data that are not zipped because of band width issue. Do you think I should try to tar or should I use specific options that goes with the unzip command line?
On OS X you could try:
ditto -x -k the_over4gb.zip /path/to/dir/where/want/unzip
e.g:
ditto -x -k zzDirectory.zip .