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Alpine Linux ships with several BusyBox [1] 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:
$ 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).
To fix this, simply install the "full" `unzip` binary using `apk`:
apk add unzip