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diff --git a/content/posts/2023-10-07-zipdl.md b/content/posts/2023-10-07-zipdl.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..2488cc5 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/posts/2023-10-07-zipdl.md @@ -0,0 +1,27 @@ +--- +title: "Zipdl" +date: 2023-10-07T23:28:16+01:00 +draft: false +--- + +I wrote a small program for downloading individual files from a remote ZIP file on a http server that supports [Range](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/Range) requests. This was an interesting learning exercise. + +In case it's useful to anyone, the code is available at https://code.mfashby.net/zipdl/ + +Binary releases: +* [linux aarch64](https://dl.mfashby.net/zipdl/0.0.1/aarch64-linux-gnu/zipdl.xz) [checksum](https://dl.mfashby.net/zipdl/0.0.1/aarch64-linux-gnu/zipdl.xz.sha256) +* [linux x86_64](https://dl.mfashby.net/zipdl/0.0.1/x86_64-linux-gnu/zipdl.xz) [checksum](https://dl.mfashby.net/zipdl/0.0.1/x86_64-linux-gnu/zipdl.xz.sha256) + +Download the appropriate file for your platform and the checksum, then check and extract: +``` +sha256sum -c zipdl.xz.sha256 +# result MUST be zipdl.xz: OK + +unxz zipdl.xz +``` +and run with -h for help +``` +./zipdl -h +``` + +To build from source, download the code, download [zig](https://ziglang.org/download/), and run `zig build` to produce a binary in zig-out/bin folder. |