zip_delete(3)

zip_delete3

Delete file from zip archive

Usage

#include <zip.h>

int

zip_delete(zip_t *archive, zip_uint64_t index);

Library

libzip (-lzip)

Overview

The file at position index in the zip archive archive is marked as deleted.

Return values

Upon successful completion 0 is returned. Otherwise, -1 is returned and the error code in archive is set to indicate the error.

Errors

zip_delete() fails if:

[ZIP_ER_INVAL]

index is not a valid file index in archive.

Releases

10 releases since Debian 5.0 (Lenny); the text changed 6 times.

  1. 5.0
  2. 6.0
  3. 7
  4. 8
  5. 9
  6. 10–12
  7. 13–Arch

History

zip_delete() was added in libzip 0.6. In libzip 0.10 the type of index was changed from int to zip_uint64_t.

Authors

Dieter Baron ⟨[email protected]⟩ and Thomas Klausner ⟨[email protected]⟩

From libzip 1.11.4-1 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's mdoc source.