😂How to add man and zip to "git bash" nén zip, tar, extract zip (ok)

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/38782928/how-to-add-man-and-zip-to-git-bash-installation-on-windows

Giải nén dùng bên này

Cách nén file bằng lệnh zip xem cài đặt 7-zip bên dưới để có thể sử dụng zip

zip a wp-location-maps

Chúng ta có thể chỉ định đuôi được xuất ra ví dụ .zip mặc định là .7z

unzip file.zip: giải nén file .zip

https://www.7-zip.org/download.html

Sử dụng lệnh sau ok

tar -a -c -f output.zip bitnami.css

How to add man and zip to "git bash" installation on Windows

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I am using git bash on Windows - that is git for Windows via the integrated bash. Apparently it uses the MINGW/MSYS underpinning. (Update from @VonC: It now uses msys2 since msysgit is obsolete since Q4 2015.)

So there are already a lot of MSYS tools installed - from awk to zcat. However I miss the man command and zip to compress multiple files into a zip file (unzip exists!).

Where from can I install them? I do not want to install another copy of the MINGW system! Any way just to add some pre-compiled tools to the git bash installation?

• windows

• git

• installation

• git-bash

• mingw-w64

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Here's another, slightly different, set of instructions to install zip for git bash on windows:

1. Navigate to this sourceforge page

2. Download zip-3.0-bin.zip

3. In the zipped file, in the bin folder, find the file zip.exe.

4. Extract the file zip.exe to your mingw64 bin folder (for me: C:\Program Files\Git\mingw64\bin)

5. Navigate to to this sourceforge page

6. Download bzip2-1.0.5-bin.zip

7. In the zipped file, in the bin folder, find the file bzip2.dll

8. Extract bzip2.dll to your mingw64\bin folder (same folder as above: C:\Program Files\Git\mingw64\bin)

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• 5This worked like magic - beyond me why it requires the bzip2.dll file though. – Jeremy Ninnes Jan 21, 2021 at 1:35

• This worked! Be sure to copy bzip2.dll and not bzip2.zip like I tried which didn't work. – duyn9uyen Mar 18, 2021 at 18:21

• Thanks for this quick tip. I recently filled up the system disk trying to install large packages and sysadmin went postal on me. I needed a small backdoor way to get stuff done today, and this was just the ticket. – J B Jun 2, 2021 at 14:55

• 2022 this still works for a fellow Windows addict. many thanks. – HackerMan0 Oct 9, 2022 at 15:57

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7-zip can be added to gitbash as follows:

1. Install 7-zip on windows.

2. add 7-zip folder (C:\Program Files\7-Zip) to PATH On gitbash exp: export PATH=$PATH:"C:\Program Files\7-Zip" (temporary) On Windows, adding PATH like image below (permanent)

1. duplicate a copy of 7z.exe to be zip.exe

2. reopen gitbash again. done!

This way, it works on my laptop.

If you skip step 3. you still can call zip command as 7z instead of zip

Conclusion: Gitbash is running base on windows Path, I think you can run any command that you have added to your Windows PATH.

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• 5This worked for me, but didn't find the need for step 3, I used the 7z command instead. Example: 7z a -r zipped_filename.zip * – martti d Apr 8, 2019 at 3:34

• @linuxeasy I have never done that before as I remember. – nokieng Aug 5, 2019 at 2:10

• 1Thanks @nokieng. Step 3 was what I was looking for my specific need of installing Sdkman on windows. – Dexter Jun 9, 2020 at 10:09

• great.. this was a simple, easy and effective trick that not only worked just fine but saved a lot of time:) Thank you. I was in the same situation and now good to go with the sdkman installation. – itsraghz Aug 26, 2020 at 17:09

• 1This worked for me saved me having to install zip on gitbash which for some inexplicable reason doesn't have a package manager – SystemsInCode Dec 12, 2020 at 14:36

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2016: The zip command can be installed from GoW (Gnu On Windows). man is not provided (too big).

It is to note, however, that if you only want to add the zip command from GoW, still the whole GoW system has to be downloaded and installed. Then you can delete the other commands from the bin directory, however make sure to keep the needed dlls in the directory.

Update 2021: tar/zip are by default installed on Windows 10. 7-zip based solutions are available below.

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• Thanks for the clarification about msys2. – halloleo Aug 9, 2016 at 3:52

• Not sure about installing GoW - this would replicate most of the already existng comands. So maybe it is better to start again with msys2 itself and then add git, zip and man to it... – halloleo Aug 9, 2016 at 3:58

• You can extract from how only the zip.exe you need. – VonC Aug 9, 2016 at 4:12

• I have a controlled laptop and can't install things into the typical directories. I can put "zip" in my path, but what about the DLLs? – tggagne Feb 1, 2017 at 17:28

• 1@AsGoodAsItGets I agree. I have edited this (old) answer to say as much. – VonC Jul 15, 2021 at 13:43

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git-archive, is prepared without any installation, can create zip-archive.

mkdir workrepo
cd workrepo
git init
cp -r [target_file_or_dir] .
git add .
git commit -m commit
git archive -o ../myarchive.zip @
cd ..
rm -rf workrepo

Following script may be usable: zip.sh foo.zip target_file_or_dir

#!/usr/bin/bash

set -eu

unset workdir
onexit() {
  if [ -n ${workdir-} ]; then
    rm -rf "$workdir"
  fi
}
trap onexit EXIT

workdir=$(mktemp --tmpdir -d gitzip.XXXXXX)


cp -r "$2" "$workdir"

pushd "$workdir"
git init
git config --local user.email "[e-mail]"
git config --local user.name "zip"
git add .
git commit -m "commit for zip"
popd

git archive --format=zip -o "$1" --remote="$workdir" HEAD

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• 1For cp commands: prefer the use of the -a option instead of the -r option. "Everyone" uses the -r option while "everyone" wants the -a behavior... – syme Sep 5, 2019 at 15:36

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I am so glad to share my experience on this issue that I haven't known for two years since the first day I played with Groovy. My method needs to have git for Windows installed in Windows OS.

These steps are for installing 7z command-line utility, which behaves a bit differently from zip:

• Download and install 7-Zip from its official website. By default, it is installed under the directory /c/Program Files/7-Zip in Windows 10 as my case.

• Run git Bash under Administrator privilege and navigate to the directory /c/Program Files/Git/mingw64/bin, you can run the command ln -s "/c/Program Files/7-Zip/7z.exe" 7z.exe

I am pretty sure it could help you a lot. Trust me!

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• the bad thing is that 7zip does not support all cmd switches like -j – Fritz Aug 30, 2020 at 11:37

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On Windows, you can use tar instead of zip.

tar -a -c -f output.zip myfile.txt

which is same as,

zip output.zip myfile.txt

no need to install any external zip tool.

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• 2Super Idea, Very Clever. This works. – Sriharsha Kalluru Feb 16, 2022 at 15:00

• Nope. This does not produce a valid zip file in Windows. It produces a tar.gz file. – sboisse Oct 6, 2022 at 21:05

• Since this was a question about git bash, the proper command would be tar.exe -a -c -f output.zip myfile.txt Windows delivers BSD tar which is able to create ZIP files. Git Bash provides GNU tar, which can't do the same. – Christian Nov 15, 2022 at 17:15

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I use choco as my Windows Package Manager.

I install 7zip with choco using PowerShell (you must be admin to use Choco)

PS > choco install 7zip.install

Open another gitbash Terminal and locate the 7z.exe executable

$ which 7z
/c/ProgramData/chocolatey/bin/7z

Do a straight copy of 7z.exe to zip.exe and voila

$ cp /c/ProgramData/chocolatey/bin/7z.exe /c/ProgramData/chocolatey/bin/zip.exe

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• 1why rename 7z to zip. 7z has different command line usage from zip. – Phani Rithvij Jan 10 at 0:28

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You can mimic a small subset of man behavior in the shell by mapping man <command> to <command> --help | less

Unfortunately, on my machine bash aliases won't add flags to positional arguments, it will try to run the flag as a command and fail (alias man="$1 --help" doesn't work).

And a function called man() is not allowed!

Luckily a combination of bash functions and aliases can achieve this mapping. Put the code below in your ~/.bashrc (create one if it is not there). Don't forget to source ~/.bashrc.

# man command workaround: alias can't pass flags, but can't name function man
m() {
    "$1" --help | less
}
alias man="m"

It doesn't get you the full man page, but if all you're looking for is basic info on a command and its flags, this might be all you need.

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• Interesting alternative. +1. Although <command> --help is often a small subset of an actual man <command> content – VonC Aug 9, 2017 at 20:55

• Creative thinking! :-) My question though was not about the man tool alone. And I guess the zip functionality is harder to emulate with bash functions & aliases. ;-) – halloleo Aug 10, 2017 at 3:58

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You can install individual GNU tools from http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages.html such as zip.

Then add "/c/Program Files (x86)/GnuWin32/bin" to PATH in your startup script like .profile, .bash_profile, .bashrc, etc.

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Here are the steps you can follow.

1. Go to the following link https://sourceforge.net/projects/gnuwin32/files/

2. Find out whatever command you are missing Here I need zip and bzip2 for zip command. Because zip command relies on bzip2.dll to run. Otherwise you will get error “error while loading shared libraries: ?: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory”.

3. Unzip the downloaded files Here I am downloading “zip-3.0-bin.zip” for “zip.exe” and “bzip2-1.0.5-bin.zip” for “bzip2.dll” in the bin folder. /bin/.exe

4. Copy the command exe file into git-bash folder Here I am copying “zip.exe” and “bzip2.dll” to \Git\usr\bin.

Reference Link https://ranxing.wordpress.com/2016/12/13/add-zip-into-git-bash-on-windows/

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ln -s /mingw64/bin/ziptool.exe /usr/bin/zip

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• ln: failed to create symbolic link '/usr/bin/zip': No such file or directory with Git bash 2.37.2.windows.2 – Christian Nov 15, 2022 at 17:19

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steps to install SDKMAN on windows

Run Windows Terminal in Admin rights. open git bash inside. (Ctrl + Shift + 4)

winget install -e --id GnuWin32.Zip
mkdir ~/bin
cp /usr/bin/unzip ~/bin/zip
curl -s "https://beta.sdkman.io" | bash
source "/c/Users/ajink/.sdkman/bin/sdkman-init.sh"
sdk selfupdate force

After you can install Java like this.

sdk install java 17.0.2-open

Done ! :)

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In msys2, I restored the functionality of git help <command> by installing man-db:

|prompt> pacman -Syu man-db
|prompt> git help archive

For zip functionality, I also use git archive (similar to yukihane's answer).

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Here's yet another 7-Zip option that I didn't notice:

Create a script named zip:

$ vi ~/bin/zip

Reference 7z specifying the add command followed by the args:

#!/bin/bash
/c/Progra~1/7-Zip/7z.exe a "$@"

Finally make it executable

$ chmod ugo+x ~/bin/zip

---

This helped to make a ytt build script happy.

+ zip ytt-lambda-website.zip main ytt

7-Zip 18.01 (x64) : Copyright (c) 1999-2018 Igor Pavlov : 2018-01-28

Scanning the drive:
2 files, 29035805 bytes (28 MiB)

Creating archive: ytt-lambda-website.zip

Add new data to archive: 2 files, 29035805 bytes (28 MiB)

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Though this question as been answered quite thoroughly in regards to man there is one alternative to zipping that has not been highlighted here yet. @Zartc brought to my attention that there is a zip compression utility built-in: ziptool. In trying to use it however I found out it is no where near a drop-in replacement and you need to specify each individual file and folder. So I dug into the docs and experimented until I had a bash-function that can do all the heavy lifting and can be used very similar to a basic zip -qrf name * compression call:

zipWithZiptool() {
  # Docs: https://libzip.org/documentation/ziptool.html
  targetFilePath="$1"
  shift
  args=() # collect all args in an array so spaces are handled correctly
  while IFS=$'\n\r' read -r line; do
    if [[ -d "$line" ]]; then
      args+=("add_dir" "$line") # Add a single directory by name
    else
      # add_file <pathInZip> <pathToFile> <startIndex> <length>
      args+=("add_file" "$line" "$line" 0 -1)
    fi
  done <<< "$(find "$@")" # call find with every arg to return a recursive list of files and dirs
  ziptool $targetFilePath "${args[@]}" # quotation is important for handling file names with spaces
}

You can then for example zip the contents of the current directory by calling it like this:

zipWithZiptool "my.zip" *

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• It's a great idea. However, I get "Git/mingw64/bin/ziptool.exe: error while loading shared libraries: ?: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory" on my machine – Mikaël Mayer Jun 1, 2021 at 6:31

• @MikaëlMayer This seems to run without issues on several systems here, so it might be a local problem. Maybe this helps? github.com/msys2/MINGW-packages/issues/4588 – Leon S. Jun 1, 2021 at 13:26

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If you are willing to install CygWin also, you can add the CygWin path to your GitBash path, and if zip is there, it will work. e.g. add

PATH=$PATH:/c/cygwin/bin
export PATH

to your .bashrc; NOTE: I would put it at the end of the path as shown, not the beginning.

Since CygWin has a UI-based installer, it's easy to add or remove applications like zip or man.

You can figure out the windows paths of each by saying

`cygpath -w /bin`

in each respective shell.

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• Well, the whole reason why I went down the GitBash/MSYS path was to avoid the installer driven approach of Cygwin. - If I could install Cygwin via zip files or similar (staying away from in-installer downloads) this were my first choice! – halloleo Mar 2, 2019 at 2:29

• Let me guess... With Linux, you run Slackware :^) – miles zarathustra Mar 3, 2019 at 7:46

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Regarding zip, you can use a following perl script to pack files:

#!/usr/bin/perl
use IO::Compress::Zip qw(:all);
$z = shift;
zip [ @ARGV ] => $z or die "Cannot create zip file: $ZipError\n";

If you make it executable, name it zip, and put it in your $PATH, you can run it like this:

zip archive.zip files...

however it will not work for directories. There is no need to install anything, as perl and all required modules are already there in the Git for Windows installation.

Regarding man, at least for git there is a documentation invoked like this:

git option --help

it will open in your default browser.

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Here is my experience, I cant run and exe or .msi files in my laptop. so downloaded filed from https://github.com/bmatzelle/gow/wiki > go to download Now and Downloaded Source Code (Zip) and unzipped this file in a folder and updated path variable with folder name. This worked out for me.

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If you want to zip files without needing to install any additional tools on Windows, in a way that works both on git bash and on other *nix systems, you might be able to use perl.

Per Josip Medved's blog, the following script creates an .epub (which is a zip file), and includes a filter for stripping src/ from the files added to the zip:

perl -e '
  use strict;
  use warnings;
  use autodie;
  use IO::Compress::Zip qw(:all);
  zip [
    "src/mimetype",
    <"src/META-INF/*.*">,
    <"src/OEBPS/*.*">,
    <"src/OEBPS/chapters/*.*">
  ] => "bin/book.epub",
       FilterName => sub { s[^src/][] },
       Zip64 => 0,
  or die "Zip failed: $ZipError\n";
'

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• Interesting to know, but IMHO a how-to about "using language xy to create zip files" is not really an answer to how to install zip and man commands on Windows, particularly when there are quite a few other 'closer' answers... – halloleo Jul 12, 2022 at 1:24

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1. install zip https://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/zip.htm

2. copy zip.exe and bzip2.dll from C:\Program Files (x86)\GnuWin32\bin to C:\Program Files\Git\mingw64\bin

3. reopen git-bash

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Solutions for me were just to install zip on my terminal(bash):

$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install zip unzip

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• 1The question is about Git bash on Windows. There is no apt package manager in this environment. – Christian