that
match one of the items in this extension list are swapped in
front of the base name of the extracted file.
-: [all but Acorn, VM/CMS, MVS, Tandem] allows to extract archive
members into locations outside of the current ‘‘ extraction root
folder’’. For security reasons, unzip normally removes ‘‘parent
dir’’ path components (‘‘../’’) from the names of extracted file.
This safety feature (new for version 5.50) prevents unzip from
accidentally writing files to ‘‘sensitive’’ areas outside the ac‐
tive extraction folder tree head. The -: option lets unzip
switch back to its previous, more liberal behaviour, to allow ex‐
act extraction of (older) archives that used ‘‘../’’ components
to create multiple directory trees at the level of the current
extraction folder. This option does not enable writing explic‐
itly to the root directory (‘‘/’’). To achieve this, it is nec‐
essary to set the extraction target folder to root (e.g. -d / ).
However, when the -: option is specified, it is still possible to
implicitly write to the root directory by specifying enough
‘‘../’’ path components within the zip archive. Use this option
with extreme caution.
-^ [Unix only] allow control characters in names of extracted ZIP
archive entries. On Unix, a file name may contain any (8‐bit)
character code with the two exception ’/’ (directory delimiter)
and NUL (0x00, the C string termination indicator), unless the
specific file system has more restrictive conventions. Gener‐
ally, this allows to embed ASCII control characters (or even so‐
phisticated control sequences) in file names, at least on ’na‐
tive’ Unix file systems. However, it may be highly suspicious to
make use of this Unix "feature". Embedded control characters in
file names might have nasty side effects when displayed on screen
by some listing code without sufficient filtering. And, for or‐
dinary users, it may be difficult to handle such file names (e.g.
when trying to specify it for open, copy, move, or delete opera‐
tions). Therefore, unzip applies a filter by default that re‐
moves potentially dangerous control characters from the extracted
file names. The ‐^ option allows to override this filter in the
rare case that embedded filename control characters are to be in‐
tentionally restored.
-2 [VMS] force unconditionally conversion of file names to ODS2‐com‐
patible names. The default is to exploit the destination file
system, preserving case and extended file name characters on an
ODS5 destination file system; and applying the ODS2‐compatibility
file name filtering on an ODS2 destination file system.
ENVIRONMENT OPTIONS
unzip’s default behavior may be modified via options placed in an envi‐
ronment variable. This can be done with any option, but it is probably
most useful with the -a, -L, -C, -q, -o, or -n modifiers: make unzip
auto‐convert text files by default, make it convert filenames from up‐
percase systems to lowercase, make it match names case‐insensitively,
make it quieter, or make it always overwrite or never overwrite files as
it extracts them. For example, to make unzip act as quietly as possi‐
ble, only reporting errors, one would use one of the following commands:
Unix Bourne shell:
UNZIP=-qq; export UNZIP
Unix C shell: