While the Mac Finder handles zipping and unzipping files just fine, it fails to give you any way to see the contents of a ZIP file. You can use some Terminal commands to do this. Better still, you can use those Terminal commands in a Shortcut to make it easy.
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Tess Loggins
6 months ago
This would be a problem solver for zipping files on Mac.
jasper
6 months ago
Thanks—this looks useful.
Another way to achieve this is with "Glance" on the AppStore [https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/glance-quick-look-plugin/id1513574319?mt=12]. It allows Preview of zip & a heap of other file types that don't usually have it.
jasper
6 months ago
Scratch that! Glance doesn't preview .gz or .zip. The developer says that it's incompatible with the most recent macOSs.
It still seems to work on Python (.py) and Shell (.sh) files, though.
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This would be a problem solver for zipping files on Mac.
Thanks—this looks useful.
Another way to achieve this is with "Glance" on the AppStore [https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/glance-quick-look-plugin/id1513574319?mt=12]. It allows Preview of zip & a heap of other file types that don't usually have it.
Scratch that! Glance doesn't preview .gz or .zip. The developer says that it's incompatible with the most recent macOSs.
It still seems to work on Python (.py) and Shell (.sh) files, though.