03
09 | 2011
Repacking ZIP-based containers
Classified in : Homepage, Debian, Command line, To remember
![From the Tango Desktop Project, Public Domain An open package showing two egg-like objects](https://tanguy.ortolo.eu/blog/data/images/icons/tango-archive-128.png)
Several modern complex file formats are based on a ZIP container: this is at least the case of OpenDocument and EPUB. However, they are not simply a bunch of files joined into an archive, but they follow some rules in order to be easily recognized by tools such as file. As I had to unpack, modify and repack such a container, here is a recipe to do that.