I know I can use unzip -l file.zip to view the file list of a zip file.
But a got a zip file inside another zip file. I tried unzip -l file.zip/sub_file.zip, but failed.
Is it possible to view the file list of the sub_file.zip without extract it out?
unzip -l file.zip/sub_file.zip doesn't work because file.zip isn't a directory: it's a regular file that happens to be in an archive format. But you can create a directory that mirrors the content of the zip file, by mounting a filesystem that presents a view of the content of the zip file. There are several choices, pick whichever is easiest to install on your distribution:
For example, with archivemount:
mkdir file.d
archivemount file.zip file.d
unzip -l file.d/sub_file.zip
fusermount -u file.d
or even
mkdir file.d sub_file.d
archivemount file.zip file.d
archivemount file.d/sub_file.zip sub_file.d
ls -lR sub_file.d
fusermount -u sub_file.d
fusermount -u file.d
See Extract only a specific file from a zipped archive to a given directory, How do I recursively grep through compressed archives? and Search for files with a specific size inside recursive zipped archives for examples of AVFS and fuse-zip in similar situations.
You can use less with Wolfgang Friebel's lesspipe script: less file.zip:sub_file.zip
: symbol used to refer to zip file relationship only, or have other usages?
zipinfo: cannot find or open 2014-08-16.zip:info_2014-08-16.zip, 2014-08-16.zip:info_2014-08-16.zip.zip or 2014-08-16.zip:info_2014-08-16.zip.ZIP
[admin@cjxx-s1 platform]$ unzip -l 2014-08-16.zip Archive: 2014-08-16.zip Length Date Time Name --------- ---------- ----- ---- 3145521 08-17-2014 00:47 info_2014-08-16.zip 1047822 08-17-2014 00:47 pay_2014-08-16.zip 46524282 08-17-2014 00:48 spend_2014-08-16.zip
less: lesspipe is an input preprocessor, used with the LESSOPEN environment variable, e.g. export LESSOPEN="|/path/to/lesspipe %s". See the less(1) man page for more information.
.gz, etc.), with .deb files, and so on. Internally temp files (or pipes) are used, but this is transparent. If the lesspipe script doesn't contain the text "Wolfgang Friebel", you don't have the right one.
With zsh:
$ unzip -l a.zip.zip
Archive: a.zip.zip
Length Date Time Name
--------- ---------- ----- ----
195 2014-08-18 09:38 a.zip
--------- -------
195 1 file
$ unzip -l =(unzip -p a.zip.zip a.zip)
Archive: /tmp/zsh0i0JyZ
Length Date Time Name
--------- ---------- ----- ----
55 2014-08-15 15:24 a
--------- -------
55 1 file
=(...) is a third form of process substitution that uses a temporary file instead of a pipe (unzip only works with seekable files).
