While working on my “e” alias in my aforalias project, I want the show only the entries of zip files, that is, without the header and footer sections. The “e” alias also shows the entries sorted by name, unlike the behavior of “unzip -l“, which displays:
Archive: gradle-1.12-all.zip Length Date Time Name --------- ---------- ----- ---- <entries> --------- ------- 102761855 9503 files
Thus I wanted to print lines[3 .. lines.length – 3].
Lo and behold, there’s a way to do that with “head” and “tail”, as follows:
unzip -l $1 | tail -n +4 | head --lines=-2
“tail -n +X” means “start printing at line X”, where 1 is the first line of the file (not 0).
And “head --lines=-X” means “print all but the last X lines”.
Not the most intuitive pair of commands in this context, but they can be quite helpful.
