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NAME

       zip - Utility for reading and creating 'zip' archives.

DESCRIPTION

       The  zip  module  archives and extracts files to and from a zip archive. The zip format is
       specified by the "ZIP Appnote.txt" file available on PKWare's website www.pkware.com.

       The zip module supports zip archive versions up to 6.1. However,  password-protection  and
       Zip64 are not supported.

       By  convention,  the  name of a zip file should end in ".zip". To abide to the convention,
       you'll need to add ".zip" yourself to the name.

       Zip archives are created with the zip/2 or the zip/3 function. (They are also available as
       create, to resemble the erl_tar module.)

       To  extract  files  from a zip archive, use the unzip/1 or the unzip/2 function. (They are
       also available as extract.)

       To fold a function over all files in a zip archive, use the foldl_3 function.

       To return a list of the files in a zip archive,  use  the  list_dir/1  or  the  list_dir/2
       function. (They are also available as table.)

       To print a list of files to the Erlang shell, use either the t/1 or tt/1 function.

       In  some  cases, it is desirable to open a zip archive, and to unzip files from it file by
       file, without having to reopen the archive. The functions zip_open, zip_get,  zip_list_dir
       and zip_close do this.

LIMITATIONS

       Zip64 archives are not currently supported.

       Password-protected and encrypted archives are not currently supported

       Only  the  DEFLATE  (zlib-compression)  and  the STORE (uncompressed data) zip methods are
       supported.

       The size of the archive is limited to 2 G-byte (32 bits).

       Comments for individual files is not supported when creating zip archives. The zip archive
       comment for the whole zip archive is supported.

       There  is  currently  no  support for altering an existing zip archive. To add or remove a
       file from an archive, the whole archive must be recreated.

DATA TYPES

       zip_comment() = #zip_comment{comment = undefined | string()}

              The record zip_comment just contains the archive comment for a zip archive

       zip_file() =
           #zip_file{name = undefined | string(),
                     info = undefined | file:file_info(),
                     comment = undefined | string(),
                     offset = undefined | integer() >= 0,
                     comp_size = undefined | integer() >= 0}

              The record zip_file contains the following fields.

                name:
                  the name of the file

                info:
                  file info as in file:read_file_info/1

                comment:
                  the comment for the file in the zip archive

                offset:
                  the offset of the file in the zip archive (used internally)

                comp_size:
                  the compressed size of the file (the uncompressed size is found in info)

EXPORTS

       zip(Name, FileList) -> RetValue

       zip(Name, FileList, Options) -> RetValue

       create(Name, FileList) -> RetValue

       create(Name, FileList, Options) -> RetValue

              Types:

                 Name = file:name()
                 FileList = [FileSpec]
                 FileSpec = file:name()
                          | {file:name(), binary()}
                          | {file:name(), binary(), file:file_info()}
                 Options = [Option]
                 Option = memory
                        | cooked
                        | verbose
                        | {comment, Comment}
                        | {cwd, CWD}
                        | {compress, What}
                        | {uncompress, What}
                 What = all
                      | [Extension]
                      | {add, [Extension]}
                      | {del, [Extension]}
                 Extension = Comment = CWD = string()
                 RetValue = {ok, FileName :: file:name()}
                          | {ok, {FileName :: file:name(), binary()}}
                          | {error, Reason :: term()}

              The zip function creates a zip archive containing the files specified in FileList.

              As synonyms, the functions create/2 and create/3 are provided, to make it  resemble
              the erl_tar module.

              The  file-list  is  a  list of files, with paths relative to the current directory,
              they will be stored with this path in the archive. Files may also be specified with
              data in binaries, to create an archive directly from data.

              Files  will  be  compressed  using  the  DEFLATE  compression,  as described in the
              Appnote.txt file. However, files will be stored without compression if they already
              are  compressed.  The  zip/2  and  zip/3  functions check the file extension to see
              whether the file should be stored without compression.  Files  with  the  following
              extensions are not compressed: .Z, .zip, .zoo, .arc, .lzh, .arj.

              It  is  possible to override the default behavior and explicitly control what types
              of files that should be compressed by using the {compress, What}  and  {uncompress,
              What}  options.  It is possible to have several compress and uncompress options. In
              order to trigger compression of a file, its extension must match with the  compress
              condition  and  must not match the uncompress condition. For example if compress is
              set to ["gif", "jpg"] and uncompress is set to ["jpg"], only files  with  "gif"  as
              extension will be compressed. No other files will be compressed.

              The following options are available:

                cooked:
                  By  default,  the  open/2 function will open the zip file in raw mode, which is
                  faster but does not allow a remote (erlang) file  server  to  be  used.  Adding
                  cooked to the mode list will override the default and open the zip file without
                  the raw option. The same goes for the files added.

                verbose:
                  Print an informational message about each file being added.

                memory:
                  The output will not be to a file, but instead as a tuple {FileName,  binary()}.
                  The  binary  will  be a full zip archive with header, and can be extracted with
                  for instance unzip/2.

                {comment, Comment}:
                  Add a comment to the zip-archive.

                {cwd, CWD}:
                  Use the given directory as current directory, it  will  be  prepended  to  file
                  names  when  adding  them,  although it will not be in the zip-archive. (Acting
                  like a file:set_cwd/1, but without changing the global cwd property.)

                {compress, What}:
                  Controls what types of files will be compressed. It is by default set  to  all.
                  The following values of What are allowed:

                  all:
                    means  that all files will be compressed (as long as they pass the uncompress
                    condition).

                  [Extension]:
                    means that only files with exactly these extensions will be compressed.

                  {add,[Extension]}:
                    adds these extensions to the list of compress extensions.

                  {del,[Extension]}:
                    deletes these extensions from the list of compress extensions.

                {uncompress, What}:
                  Controls what types of files will be uncompressed. It  is  by  default  set  to
                  [".Z",  ".zip",  ".zoo",  ".arc", ".lzh", ".arj"]. The following values of What
                  are allowed:

                  all:
                    means that no files will be compressed.

                  [Extension]:
                    means that files with these extensions will be uncompressed.

                  {add,[Extension]}:
                    adds these extensions to the list of uncompress extensions.

                  {del,[Extension]}:
                    deletes these extensions from the list of uncompress extensions.

       unzip(Archive) -> RetValue

       unzip(Archive, Options) -> RetValue

       extract(Archive) -> RetValue

       extract(Archive, Options) -> RetValue

              Types:

                 Archive = file:name() | binary()
                 Options = [Option]
                 Option = {file_list, FileList}
                        | keep_old_files
                        | verbose
                        | memory
                        | {file_filter, FileFilter}
                        | {cwd, CWD}
                 FileList = [file:name()]
                 FileBinList = [{file:name(), binary()}]
                 FileFilter = fun((ZipFile) -> boolean())
                 CWD = string()
                 ZipFile = zip_file()
                 RetValue = {ok, FileList}
                          | {ok, FileBinList}
                          | {error, Reason :: term()}
                          | {error, {Name :: file:name(), Reason :: term()}}

              The unzip/1 function extracts all files from a zip archive.  The  unzip/2  function
              provides options to extract some files, and more.

              If the Archive argument is given as a binary, the contents of the binary is assumed
              to be a zip archive, otherwise it should be a filename.

              The following options are available:

                {file_list, FileList}:
                  By default, all files  will  be  extracted  from  the  zip  archive.  With  the
                  {file_list,  FileList} option, the unzip/2 function will only extract the files
                  whose names are included in FileList. The full paths, including  the  names  of
                  all sub directories within the zip archive, must be specified.

                cooked:
                  By  default,  the  open/2 function will open the zip file in raw mode, which is
                  faster but does not allow a remote (erlang) file  server  to  be  used.  Adding
                  cooked to the mode list will override the default and open the zip file without
                  the raw option. The same goes for the files extracted.

                keep_old_files:
                  By default, all existing files with the same name as file in  the  zip  archive
                  will  be overwritten. With the keep_old_files option, the unzip/2 function will
                  not overwrite any existing files. Note that even with the memory option  given,
                  which  means that no files will be overwritten, files existing will be excluded
                  from the result.

                verbose:
                  Print an informational message as each file is being extracted.

                memory:
                  Instead of extracting to the current directory, the memory option will give the
                  result  as  a  list  of  tuples  {Filename,  Binary},  where Binary is a binary
                  containing the extracted data of the file named Filename in the zip archive.

                {cwd, CWD}:
                  Use the given directory as current directory, it  will  be  prepended  to  file
                  names when extracting them from the zip-archive. (Acting like a file:set_cwd/1,
                  but without changing the global cwd property.)

       foldl(Fun, Acc0, Archive) -> {ok, Acc1} | {error, Reason}

              Types:

                 Fun = fun((FileInArchive, GetInfo, GetBin, AccIn) -> AccOut)
                 FileInArchive = file:name()
                 GetInfo = fun(() -> file:file_info())
                 GetBin = fun(() -> binary())
                 Acc0 = Acc1 = AccIn = AccOut = term()
                 Archive = file:name() | {file:name(), binary()}
                 Reason = term()

              The foldl/3 function calls Fun(FileInArchive, GetInfo, GetBin, AccIn) on successive
              files  in  the Archive, starting with AccIn == Acc0. FileInArchive is the name that
              the file has in the archive. GetInfo is a fun that returns info about the the file.
              GetBin  returns  the  contents  of the file. Both GetInfo and GetBin must be called
              within the Fun. Their behavior is undefined if they are called outside the  context
              of the Fun. The Fun must return a new accumulator which is passed to the next call.
              foldl/3 returns the final value of the accumulator. Acc0 is returned if the archive
              is  empty.  It  is  not  necessary  to  iterate  over all files in the archive. The
              iteration may be ended prematurely in a controlled manner by throwing an exception.

              For example:

              > Name = "dummy.zip".
              "dummy.zip"
              > {ok, {Name, Bin}} = zip:create(Name, [{"foo", <<"FOO">>}, {"bar", <<"BAR">>}], [memory]).
              {ok,{"dummy.zip",
                   <<80,75,3,4,20,0,0,0,0,0,74,152,97,60,171,39,212,26,3,0,
                     0,0,3,0,0,...>>}}
              > {ok, FileSpec} = zip:foldl(fun(N, I, B, Acc) -> [{N, B(), I()} | Acc] end, [], {Name, Bin}).
              {ok,[{"bar",<<"BAR">>,
                    {file_info,3,regular,read_write,
                               {{2010,3,1},{19,2,10}},
                               {{2010,3,1},{19,2,10}},
                               {{2010,3,1},{19,2,10}},
                               54,1,0,0,0,0,0}},
                   {"foo",<<"FOO">>,
                    {file_info,3,regular,read_write,
                               {{2010,3,1},{19,2,10}},
                               {{2010,3,1},{19,2,10}},
                               {{2010,3,1},{19,2,10}},
                               54,1,0,0,0,0,0}}]}
              > {ok, {Name, Bin}} = zip:create(Name, lists:reverse(FileSpec), [memory]).
              {ok,{"dummy.zip",
                   <<80,75,3,4,20,0,0,0,0,0,74,152,97,60,171,39,212,26,3,0,
                     0,0,3,0,0,...>>}}
              > catch zip:foldl(fun("foo", _, B, _) -> throw(B()); (_,_,_,Acc) -> Acc end, [], {Name, Bin}).
              <<"FOO">>

       list_dir(Archive) -> RetValue

       list_dir(Archive, Options) -> RetValue

       table(Archive) -> RetValue

       table(Archive, Options) -> RetValue

              Types:

                 Archive = file:name() | binary()
                 RetValue = {ok, CommentAndFiles} | {error, Reason :: term()}
                 CommentAndFiles = [zip_comment() | zip_file()]
                 Options = [Option]
                 Option = cooked

              The list_dir/1 function retrieves the  names  of  all  files  in  the  zip  archive
              Archive. The list_dir/2 function provides options.

              As  synonyms,  the  functions table/2 and table/3 are provided, to make it resemble
              the erl_tar module.

              The result value is the tuple {ok, List},  where  List  contains  the  zip  archive
              comment as the first element.

              The following options are available:

                cooked:
                  By  default,  the  open/2 function will open the zip file in raw mode, which is
                  faster but does not allow a remote (erlang) file  server  to  be  used.  Adding
                  cooked to the mode list will override the default and open the zip file without
                  the raw option.

       t(Archive) -> ok

              Types:

                 Archive = file:name() | binary() | ZipHandle
                 ZipHandle = pid()

              The t/1 function prints the names of all files in the zip archive  Archive  to  the
              Erlang shell. (Similar to "tar t".)

       tt(Archive) -> ok

              Types:

                 Archive = file:name() | binary() | ZipHandle
                 ZipHandle = pid()

              The  tt/1  function prints names and information about all files in the zip archive
              Archive to the Erlang shell. (Similar to "tar tv".)

       zip_open(Archive) -> {ok, ZipHandle} | {error, Reason}

       zip_open(Archive, Options) -> {ok, ZipHandle} | {error, Reason}

              Types:

                 Archive = file:name() | binary()
                 ZipHandle = pid()
                 Options = [Option]
                 Option = cooked | memory | {cwd, CWD :: string()}
                 Reason = term()

              The zip_open function opens a zip archive, and reads and saves its directory.  This
              means  that  subsequently  reading  files  from  the  archive  will  be faster than
              unzipping files one at a time with unzip.

              The archive must be closed with zip_close/1.

       zip_list_dir(ZipHandle) -> {ok, Result} | {error, Reason}

              Types:

                 Result = [zip_comment() | zip_file()]
                 ZipHandle = pid()
                 Reason = term()

              The zip_list_dir/1 function returns the file list of an open zip archive. The first
              returned element is the zip archive comment.

       zip_get(ZipHandle) -> {ok, [Result]} | {error, Reason}

       zip_get(FileName, ZipHandle) -> {ok, Result} | {error, Reason}

              Types:

                 FileName = file:name()
                 ZipHandle = pid()
                 Result = file:name() | {file:name(), binary()}
                 Reason = term()

              The zip_get function extracts one or all files from an open archive.

              The  files will be unzipped to memory or to file, depending on the options given to
              the zip_open function when the archive was opened.

       zip_close(ZipHandle) -> ok | {error, einval}

              Types:

                 ZipHandle = pid()

              The zip_close/1 function closes a zip archive, previously opened with zip_open. All
              resources are closed, and the handle should not be used after closing.