Cygwin64, 'unzip -d' misbehaviour vs. Cygwin32
Marco Atzeri
marco.atzeri@gmail.com
Tue Sep 30 09:06:00 GMT 2014
On 30/09/2014 08:35, Wladimir Mutel wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I have a .zip archive on a different NTFS filesystem than Cygwin64 TMP
> folder (say, .zip on I: and TMP on C:). I create a temporary folder
> by 'mktemp -d' and then try to unpack .zip archive into that folder :
> unzip -d $folder $archive
> I notice that files are unpacked into I:\TMP\ folder instead of
> C:\Cygwin64\tmp\ (unzip recreates temporary subfolder with same name
> inside I:\TMP\, while initial subfolder under c:\cygwin64\tmp\
> remains empty)
> Trying to work around this problem, I do this :
> p=$(pwd)/$archive # archive is relative path under /cygdrive/i/ ,
> # so I construct abs.path
> ( cd $folder
> unzip $p ) # in subshell to keep current pwd unchanged
> Then I get a message like :
> unzip: cannot find either /cygdrive/i/path/archive.zip or
> /cygdrive/i/path/archive.zip.zip.
>
> Even more, unzip -v /cygdrive/i/path/archive.zip invariably fails
> in this way under Cygwin64. What I see is that unzip accepts only
> relative paths for archive files. And that it improperly handles
> specified unpack directory (-d).
>
> No such problems are observable under Cygwin32. unzip works exactly
> as specified with both absolute and relative paths, as well as with
> unpack folder on different filesystem from .zip archive.
>
> Please try to reproduce my findings and fix them on Cygwin64 side
> or tell me how could I fix them myself (if it is my personal problem).
>
> Thanks in advance for your help.
>
works fine for me on any relative or absolute destination
$ unzip software/windows_utilities/usb/usbdeview-x64.zip -d
/cygdrive/c/temp/pippo
Archive: software/windows_utilities/usb/usbdeview-x64.zip
inflating: /cygdrive/c/temp/pippo/USBDeview.exe
inflating: /cygdrive/c/temp/pippo/USBDeview.chm
inflating: /cygdrive/c/temp/pippo/readme.txt
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