zip_file_rename(3)

zip_file_rename3

Rename file in zip archive

Usage

#include <zip.h>

int

zip_file_rename(zip_t *archive, zip_uint64_t index, const char *name, zip_flags_t flags);

Library

libzip (-lzip)

Overview

The file at position index in the zip archive archive is renamed to name. The flags argument can be any of:

ZIP_FL_ENC_GUESS

Guess encoding of name (default). (Only CP-437 and UTF-8 are recognized.)

ZIP_FL_ENC_UTF_8

Interpret name as UTF-8.

ZIP_FL_ENC_CP437

Interpret name as code page 437 (CP-437).

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_file_rename() fails if:

[ZIP_ER_DELETED]

The file to be renamed has been deleted from the archive.

[ZIP_ER_EXISTS]

There is already a file called name in the archive.

[ZIP_ER_INVAL]

index is not a valid file index in archive, name is NULL, the empty string, or not a valid UTF-8 encoded string. Also a file cannot be renamed to a directory or vice versa. Directories are denoted by a trailing slash.

Releases

7 releases since Debian 8 (Jessie); the text changed 4 times.

  1. 8
  2. 9
  3. 10
  4. 11–12
  5. 13–Arch

History

zip_file_rename() was added in libzip 0.11.

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.