Extract a multi-volume zip file in Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • The below error occurs while attempting to extract multi-volume zip files which has been created from Winzip application in Microsoft Windows.
$ unzip filename.zip
Archive:  filename.zip
warning [filename.zip]:  zipfile claims to be last disk of a multi-part archive;
  attempting to process anyway, assuming all parts have been concatenated
  together in order.  Expect "errors" and warnings...true multi-part support
  doesn't exist yet (coming soon).
file #1:  bad zipfile offset (local header sig):  4

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux
  • winzip split files

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