unzip strips trailing semicolon from filename when extracting

[Andrzej]

Binary package hint: file-roller

If a zip archive contains a file where the filename ends in a semi-colon, then when the file is extracted, the trailing semi-colon is removed from the filename.

If you try to export the one file, named "this is a new file&22;" from the attached text.zip archive, using Archive Manager, it will create a file called "this is a new file&22". That is incorrect....the trailing semi-colon should be part of the extracted files filename!

Zip utilities (like WinZip) leave the trailing semi-colon intact in the extracted filename, so this is unique to file-roller/archive manager.

[Marcel Stimberg (marcelstimberg)]

Thank you for your bug report. I can confirm this bug, however, it is not file-roller's fault: If you do "unzip test.zip" with your file in a terminal, you get the same result (file-roller is using unzip for extracting zip files). I therefore changed the package to unzip.
If you are only using file-roller and not the unzip command directly, there's a simple work-around: Install the p7zip-full package, this will then be used by file-roller and doesn't show this bug.

[Marcel Stimberg (marcelstimberg)]

I reported this bug upstream, you can track it and make comments at:
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3033980&group_id=118012&atid=679786

[Andrzej (andrzej-chaeron)]

Thanks for the confirmation and details Marcel. I had discovered that unzip had the problem, and figured that file-roller was just using unzip or a common library.

I did install p7zip-full as a workaround using the command line version. Good to know that if you install p7zip-full then file-roller will use it. Very nice, transparent workaround! Thanks for that tip!