du --zip myFile.zip?

Question

What's the easiest way to use the "du" command on zip files? I'm sure this is quite a common use case, but I couldn't find anything using Google.

I'd rather not resort to mounting the zip file and running du as if it was an exploded directory.

Answer 1

I never heard of du working for zip files, probably you should use gunzip for that purpose - http://www.abeel.be/content/determine-uncompressed-size-gzip-file

I think you should better ask on http://superuser.com

Command for listing .zip archive is:

gunzip -l file.zip

For other formats I'll quote nice example from here:

Task: List the contents of a tar file

Use the following command: $ tar -tvf file.tar

Task: List the contents of a tar.gz file

Use the following command: $ tar -ztvf file.tar.gz

Task: List the contents of a tar.bz2 file

Use the following command: $ tar -jtvf file.tar.bz2