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+---
+date: "2022-09-27T18:45:00Z"
+title: Fixing unzip on Alpine Linux
+description: "Replacing busybox unzip to fix extraction issues in Alpine Linux."
+tags: [technology]
+---
+
+Alpine Linux ships with several [BusyBox](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BusyBox) utilities, including many day-to-day shell commands.
+
+One such example is the `unzip` tool for extracting ZIP files.
+
+Recently, when unzipping a large archive on Alpine, I kept getting this `short read` error message:
+
+```bash
+$ unzip archive.zip 
+Archive:  archive.zip
+unzip: short read
+$ 
+```
+
+I tried re-creating the archive a few times to see if it was an issue with the zip file itself, but to no avail. I still don't know what the `short read` error is referring to, but the only thing I can think of is the size of the file (around 100GB).
+
+## Fixing the issue
+
+To fix this, simply install the "full" `unzip` binary using `apk`:
+
+```shell
+apk add unzip
+```