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LIBZIP(3) Library Functions Manual LIBZIP(3)

libziplibrary for manipulating zip archives

libzip (-lzip)

#include <zip.h>

libzip is a library for reading, creating, and modifying zip archives.

The main design criteria for libzip were:

  • Do not create corrupt files, even in case of errors.
  • Do not delete data.
  • Be efficient.

For this reason, when modifying zip archives, libzip writes to a temporary file and replaces the original zip archive atomically.

Below there are two sections listing functions: one for how to read from zip archives and one for how to create/modify them.

Dieter Baron <dillo@nih.at> and Thomas Klausner <tk@giga.or.at>

April 17, 2020 Debian