If you have splitted binaries, like file.zip.001, file.zip.002 … you may just need to combine the files e.g. Zip -s 0 split-foo.zip –out unsplit-foo.zip To extract a split zip archive (a series of files named zip, z01, z02…), run following command in Terminal:įirst, combine the split archive to a single archive:.Zip -s 100m -x “*.DS_Store” -r split-foo.zip foo/ To create a split zip archive (a series of files named zip, z01, z02…), run following command in Terminal:.Double click on the first file in the archive to unzip it.

This command will create multiple zip files up to 50mb. Most HHD and OSes are now using something better than FAT that supports big files.įrom the command line you can do it in one line: The main problem is with FAT partitions that will support only up to 4GB. Unfortunately it still happens to me to have to deal with legacy systems were FAT is the norm at least once a year. Runhidden terminal.app unzip /Applications/“program a.Having the need of splitting files is something that comes up less and less often to everyone’s joy. Is it possible to do the same in Mac OSX something to the effect of I know there’s a way to pass a command to a command prompt in Windows (runhidden cmd.exe /c). However, I know the command does work in the Mac OSX terminal. I get an invalid action script error, “Unable to parse action script for Action1 line 10: Unknown action command.” Unzip /Applications/“program a.zip” -d /Applications _Icon can't be compressed because it includes characters that can't be used in a compressed folder, such as (appears to be some sort of bold period) Unfortunately I don’t know if unzip is included on all distributions. If you want to distribute the zip file, you can try that and use OS X’s built in commandline ‘unzip’ tool. app file and checked the ‘include subfolders’ option. Interesting… I just tried to use the Mac Software Deployment wizard using a. ( imported comment written by SystemAdmin) unzip /Applications/“program a.zip” -d /ApplicationsĮxtract /Applications/“program a.zip” -d /Applications

Does anyone have any suggestions?Ĭontinue if ” I need to unzip the program a.zip into the applications folder.

It is failing on “extract /Applications/“program a.zip” -d /Applications”.

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