Extract list of file names in a zip archive when `unzip -l`

Question

When I do unzip -l zipfilename, I see

1295627  08-22-11 07:10   A.pdf
473980  08-22-11 07:10   B.pdf
...

I only want to see th

Answer 1

The easiest way to do this is to use the following command:

unzip -Z -1 archive.zip

or

zipinfo -1 archive.zip

This will list only the file names, one on each line.

The two commands are exactly equivalent. The -Z option tells unzip to treat the rest of the options as zipinfo options. See the man pages for unzip and zipinfo.