Linux – How to Unzip Multipart ZIP Files

Typically one uses tar to create an uncompressed archive and either gzip or bzip2 to compress that archive. The corresponding gunzip and bunzip2 commands can be used to uncompress said archive, or you can just use flags on the tar command to perform the uncompression.

If you are referring specifically to the Zip file format, you can simply use the zip and unzip commands.

To compress:

zip squash.zip file1 file2 file3

or to zip a directory

zip -r squash.zip dir1

To uncompress:

unzip squash.zip

this unzips it in your current working directory.

Restoring permissions is a feature of unzip (from the man page, version 6.00):

Dates,  times  and  permissions of stored directories are not restored
except under Unix. (On Windows NT and successors, timestamps  are  now
restored.)

and there is no option to switch if off.

It might be that an older version of unzip did not support restoring permission, but investigating that route is probably more cumbersome than trying to change the latest unzip source to do what you want.

If running chmod -R is unacceptable you can take a look at using Python's zipfile library, it is easy to use and gives you full control over the way you write the files that you extract from the zip file.