unzip -a strange behavior
 

Greetings;

I regularly use the -a option to unzip to fix DOS/Windows
line endings and have never had a problem. Until yesterday
and today!


Today it treated everything as a binary file and all the
text/ascii files still had ^M at the end of each line.
Yesterday it treated a pdf file as a text file and it was
unreadable!


Any ideas as to what is wrong here?

Many TIA!
Dennis


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unzip -a strange behavior
 

On 02/16/2009 11:31 AM, Dennis Wicks wrote:

Greetings;

I regularly use the -a option to unzip to fix DOS/Windows line endings
and have never had a problem. Until yesterday and today!


Today it treated everything as a binary file and all the text/ascii
files still had ^M at the end of each line. Yesterday it treated a pdf
file as a text file and it was unreadable!


Any ideas as to what is wrong here?


Unzip version number?

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unzip -a strange behavior
 

Greetings;

I regularly use the -a option to unzip to fix DOS/Windows
line endings and have never had a problem. Until yesterday
and today!

Today it treated everything as a binary file and all the
text/ascii files still had ^M at the end of each line.
Yesterday it treated a pdf file as a text file and it was
unreadable!

Any ideas as to what is wrong here?

Many TIA!
Dennis


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unzip -a strange behavior
 

Greetings;

I regularly use the -a option in unzip to fix DOS/Windows
line endings and have never had a problem. Until yesterday
and today!

Today it treated everything as a binary file and all the
text/ascii files still had ^M at the end of each line.
Yesterday it treated a pdf file as a text file and it was
unreadable!

Any ideas as to what is wrong here?

Many TIA!
Dennis


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unzip -a strange behavior
 

dgwicks:~# unzip -v
UnZip 5.52 of 28 February 2005,
by Debian. Original by Info-ZIP.

It doesn't look like it has changed in the past five years,
which makes me think it might be something else that unzip
interacts with. But I have no idea what it might be.



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On 02/16/2009 06:50 PM, Dennis Wicks wrote:


dgwicks:~# unzip -v
UnZip 5.52 of 28 February 2005,
by Debian. Original by Info-ZIP.

It doesn't look like it has changed in the past five years, which makes
me think it might be something else that unzip interacts with. But I
have no idea what it might be.


Weird input files?

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Ron Johnson wrote the following on 02/16/2009 07:05 PM:

On 02/16/2009 06:50 PM, Dennis Wicks wrote:


dgwicks:~# unzip -v
UnZip 5.52 of 28 February 2005,
by Debian. Original by Info-ZIP.

It doesn't look like it has changed in the past five years, which
makes me think it might be something else that unzip interacts with.
But I have no idea what it might be.


Weird input files?

As it turns out, apparently there is something wrong with
the input zip file. I tried unzip on another file that I
know produced correct results and it operates correctly.


The out put from the "weird" file looks OK except for the ^M
but how can you be sure? Obviously something is wrong with
it some how.


Thanks for the suggestion. That appears to be the problem.

Dennis


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