Unzipping a batch of files

I've done some digging in the source code (unzip60 from Ubuntu raring, though I suspect older versions don't differ much). The error in question is internally called TruncNTSD and defined in extract.c:295. Most uses of this message, as expected, are in win32/win32.c and indeed refer to NTFS security data, however there's only one place in the code where you should ever get this error outside of a win32 system (since you reported seeing it on ubuntu).

The place in question (extract.c:2118) is in a function called TestExtraField. As Wikipedia explains:

.ZIP file format includes the extra field facility within file headers, which can be used to store extra data not defined by existing .ZIP specifications, and allow compliant archivers not recognizing the fields to safely skip the fields.

That's indeed what NT does to store security information. Importantly, the function printing the error comments

/* we know the regular compressed file data tested out OK, or else we
 * wouldn't be here ==> print filename if any extra-field errors found
 */

So if you can unzip the files themselves fine, it looks like this error is safe to ignore. Looking further, the only place outside of win32 code that raises this error (assuming it's not a horrible bug in unzip) is test_compr_eb:extract.c:2227, which from a glance at the code looks like it occurs when a zipped file has associated extra fields that are marked as compressed, but the field data has a length of 0 bytes.

How this comes about I don't know - perhaps the program creating the zip files does this by accident, perhaps the extra fields are filtered out somewhere by security software. In any case, it looks harmless and probably has nothing to do with NT security at all. In conclusion, if your files unzip fine, it's completely safe to ignore.

As @MarkPlotnick pointed out, you can use glob patterns. From man zip:

zip -d foo foo/tom/junk foo/harry/\* \*.o

will remove the entry foo/tom/junk, all of the files that start with foo/harry/, and all of the files that end with .o (in any path).