How to list all *.doc files in a Zip archive, including files in subdirectories

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I have Zip files, that might look like this:

$ zipinfo -1 zip.zip
doc.doc
dotx.dotx
xls.xls
ppt.ppt
txt.txt
c.c
subdir/subdir2/doc.doc
subdir/xls.xls
subdir/ppt.ppt
subdir/c.c
subdir/txt.txt
subdir/subdir2/
subdir/

I want it to print all the *.doc files, but zipinfo -1 zip.zip *.doc only prints the .doc files in the root directory of the Zip file. How can I print all the .doc files, in all the subdirectories?

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zipinfo -1 zip.zip '*.doc'

works for me, displaying all files in sub-directories. I think you are forgetting the quotes around the *.doc. Without the quotes, the *.doc expands to all .doc files in the current directory, and then that is passed to zipinfo as the search pattern. So if you have an unzipped version of the archive present in the local directory, then the command will only show top-level .doc files.

With quotes, the argument is protected from the shell, so the wildcard actually makes it to zipinfo successfully.

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Command Line – How to Zip All Files in Directory

You can just use *; there is no need for *.*. File extensions are not special on Unix. * matches zero or more characters—including a dot. So it matches foo.png, because that's zero or more characters (seven, to be exact).

Note that * by default doesn't match files beginning with a dot (neither does *.*). This is often what you want. If not, in bash, if you shopt -s dotglob it will (but will still exclude . and ..). Other shells have different ways (or none at all) of including dotfiles.

Alternatively, zip also has a -r (recursive) option to do entire directory trees at once (and not have to worry about the dotfile problem):

zip -r myfiles.zip mydir

where mydir is the directory containing your files. Note that the produced zip will contain the directory structure as well as the files. As peterph points out in his comment, this is usually seen as a good thing: extracting the zip will neatly store all the extracted files in one subdirectory.

You can also tell zip to not store the paths with the -j/--junk-paths option.

The zip command comes with documentation telling you about all of its (many) options; type man zip to see that documentation. This isn't unique to zip; you can get documentation for most commands this way.

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zip stores paths relative to the current directory (when it is invoked), so you need to change that:

(cd folder; zip -r ../package.zip .)

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