# How to add man and zip to "git bash" nén zip, tar, extract zip (ok)
Giải nén dùng bên [này](https://cauhinhserver-ubuntu.gitbook.io/learnubuntu/cac-lenh-co-ban-danh-cho-vps-va-may-chu-linux)
Cách nén file bằng lệnh zip xem cài đặt 7-zip bên dưới để có thể sử dụng zip
zip a wp-location-maps
Chúng ta có thể chỉ định đuôi được xuất ra ví dụ .zip mặc định là .7z
```
unzip file.zip: giải nén file .zip
```
Sử dụng lệnh sau ok
```
tar -a -c -f output.zip bitnami.css
```
## [How to add man and zip to "git bash" installation on Windows](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/38782928/how-to-add-man-and-zip-to-git-bash-installation-on-windows)
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I am using [`git bash`](https://git-for-windows.github.io/) on Windows - that is `git` for Windows via the integrated `bash`. Apparently it uses the `MINGW`/`MSYS` underpinning. (*Update from @VonC: It now* [*uses msys2*](https://stackoverflow.com/a/35099458/6309) *since* [*msysgit is obsolete*](https://stackoverflow.com/a/26826359/6309) *since Q4 2015.*)
So there are already a lot of `MSYS` tools installed - from `awk` to `zcat`. However I miss the `man` command and `zip` to compress multiple files into a zip file (`unzip` exists!).
Where from can I install them? I do not want to install another copy of the `MINGW` system! Any way just to add some pre-compiled tools to the `git bash` installation?
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Here's another, slightly different, set of instructions to install `zip` for `git bash` on windows:
1. [Navigate to this sourceforge page](https://sourceforge.net/projects/gnuwin32/files/zip/3.0/)
2. Download `zip-3.0-bin.zip`
3. In the zipped file, in the `bin` folder, find the file `zip.exe`.
4. Extract the file `zip.exe` to your `mingw64` bin folder (for me: `C:\Program Files\Git\mingw64\bin`)
5. [Navigate to to this sourceforge page](https://sourceforge.net/projects/gnuwin32/files/bzip2/1.0.5/)
6. Download `bzip2-1.0.5-bin.zip`
7. In the zipped file, in the `bin` folder, find the file `bzip2.dll`
8. Extract `bzip2.dll` to your `mingw64\bin` folder (same folder as above: `C:\Program Files\Git\mingw64\bin`)
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* 5This worked like magic - beyond me why it requires the bzip2.dll file though. – [Jeremy Ninnes](https://stackoverflow.com/users/1704885/jeremy-ninnes) [Jan 21, 2021 at 1:35](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/38782928/how-to-add-man-and-zip-to-git-bash-installation-on-windows#comment116374911_55749636)
* This worked! Be sure to copy `bzip2.dll` and not `bzip2.zip` like I tried which didn't work. – [duyn9uyen](https://stackoverflow.com/users/2128937/duyn9uyen) [Mar 18, 2021 at 18:21](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/38782928/how-to-add-man-and-zip-to-git-bash-installation-on-windows#comment117901835_55749636)
* Thanks for this quick tip. I recently filled up the system disk trying to install large packages and sysadmin went postal on me. I needed a small backdoor way to get stuff done today, and this was just the ticket. – [J B](https://stackoverflow.com/users/9983172/j-b) [Jun 2, 2021 at 14:55](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/38782928/how-to-add-man-and-zip-to-git-bash-installation-on-windows#comment119852719_55749636)
* 2022 this still works for a fellow Windows addict. many thanks. – [HackerMan0](https://stackoverflow.com/users/8876886/hackerman0) [Oct 9, 2022 at 15:57](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/38782928/how-to-add-man-and-zip-to-git-bash-installation-on-windows#comment130670119_55749636)
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7-zip can be added to `gitbash` as follows:
1. Install 7-zip on windows.
2. add 7-zip folder (`C:\Program Files\7-Zip`) to `PATH`\
On `gitbash` exp: `export PATH=$PATH:"C:\Program Files\7-Zip"` (temporary)\
On Windows, adding `PATH` like image below (permanent)
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/W2Pj7.png)
3. duplicate a copy of `7z.exe` to be `zip.exe`
4. reopen `gitbash` again. done!
This way, it works on my laptop.
If you skip step 3. you still can call zip command as `7z` instead of `zip`
Conclusion: `Gitbash` is running base on windows `Path`, I think you can run any command that you have added to your Windows `PATH`.
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* 5This worked for me, but didn't find the need for step 3, I used the `7z` command instead. Example: `7z a -r zipped_filename.zip *` – [martti d](https://stackoverflow.com/users/1122566/martti-d) [Apr 8, 2019 at 3:34](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/38782928/how-to-add-man-and-zip-to-git-bash-installation-on-windows#comment97831062_54301375)
* @linuxeasy I have never done that before as I remember. – [nokieng](https://stackoverflow.com/users/3397462/nokieng) [Aug 5, 2019 at 2:10](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/38782928/how-to-add-man-and-zip-to-git-bash-installation-on-windows#comment101190904_54301375)
* 1Thanks @nokieng. Step 3 was what I was looking for my specific need of installing Sdkman on windows. – [Dexter](https://stackoverflow.com/users/1852693/dexter) [Jun 9, 2020 at 10:09](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/38782928/how-to-add-man-and-zip-to-git-bash-installation-on-windows#comment110147056_54301375)
* great.. this was a simple, easy and effective trick that not only worked just fine but saved a lot of time:) Thank you. I was in the same situation and now good to go with the sdkman installation. – [itsraghz](https://stackoverflow.com/users/1001242/itsraghz) [Aug 26, 2020 at 17:09](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/38782928/how-to-add-man-and-zip-to-git-bash-installation-on-windows#comment112469460_54301375)
* 1This worked for me saved me having to install zip on gitbash which for some inexplicable reason doesn't have a package manager – [SystemsInCode](https://stackoverflow.com/users/5353824/systemsincode) [Dec 12, 2020 at 14:36](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/38782928/how-to-add-man-and-zip-to-git-bash-installation-on-windows#comment115384083_54301375)
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2016: The `zip` command can be installed from [GoW (Gnu On Windows)](https://github.com/bmatzelle/gow/wiki). `man` is not provided (too big).
It is to note, however, that if you *only* want to add the `zip` command from GoW, still the whole GoW system has to be downloaded and installed. Then you can delete the other commands from the `bin` directory, however make sure to keep the needed dlls in the directory.
Update 2021: tar/zip are by default installed on Windows 10.\
7-zip based solutions are available below.
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* Thanks for the clarification about `msys2`. – [halloleo](https://stackoverflow.com/users/65889/halloleo) [Aug 9, 2016 at 3:52](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/38782928/how-to-add-man-and-zip-to-git-bash-installation-on-windows#comment65048886_38783744)
* Not sure about installing GoW - this would replicate most of the already existng comands. So maybe it is better to start again with msys2 itself and then add `git`, `zip` and `man` to it... – [halloleo](https://stackoverflow.com/users/65889/halloleo) [Aug 9, 2016 at 3:58](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/38782928/how-to-add-man-and-zip-to-git-bash-installation-on-windows#comment65048965_38783744)
* You can extract from how only the zip.exe you need. – [VonC](https://stackoverflow.com/users/6309/vonc) [Aug 9, 2016 at 4:12](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/38782928/how-to-add-man-and-zip-to-git-bash-installation-on-windows#comment65049181_38783744)
* I have a controlled laptop and can't install things into the typical directories. I can put "zip" in my path, but what about the DLLs? – [tggagne](https://stackoverflow.com/users/214046/tggagne) [Feb 1, 2017 at 17:28](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/38782928/how-to-add-man-and-zip-to-git-bash-installation-on-windows#comment71149586_38783744)
* 1\@AsGoodAsItGets I agree. I have edited this (old) answer to say as much. – [VonC](https://stackoverflow.com/users/6309/vonc) [Jul 15, 2021 at 13:43](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/38782928/how-to-add-man-and-zip-to-git-bash-installation-on-windows#comment120875606_38783744)
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[`git-archive`](https://git-scm.com/docs/git-archive), is prepared without any installation, can create zip-archive.
```
mkdir workrepo
cd workrepo
git init
cp -r [target_file_or_dir] .
git add .
git commit -m commit
git archive -o ../myarchive.zip @
cd ..
rm -rf workrepo
```
Following script may be usable: `zip.sh foo.zip target_file_or_dir`
```
#!/usr/bin/bash
set -eu
unset workdir
onexit() {
if [ -n ${workdir-} ]; then
rm -rf "$workdir"
fi
}
trap onexit EXIT
workdir=$(mktemp --tmpdir -d gitzip.XXXXXX)
cp -r "$2" "$workdir"
pushd "$workdir"
git init
git config --local user.email "zip@example.com"
git config --local user.name "zip"
git add .
git commit -m "commit for zip"
popd
git archive --format=zip -o "$1" --remote="$workdir" HEAD
```
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* 1For `cp` commands: prefer the use of the `-a` option instead of the `-r` option. "Everyone" uses the `-r` option while "everyone" wants the `-a` behavior... – [syme](https://stackoverflow.com/users/2304197/syme) [Sep 5, 2019 at 15:36](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/38782928/how-to-add-man-and-zip-to-git-bash-installation-on-windows#comment102049273_51316338)
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I am so glad to share my experience on this issue that I haven't known for two years since the first day I played with Groovy. My method needs to have `git` for Windows installed in Windows OS.
These steps are for installing `7z` command-line utility, which behaves a bit differently from `zip`:
* Download and install 7-Zip from [its official website](https://www.7-zip.org/download.html). By default, it is installed under the directory `/c/Program Files/7-Zip` in Windows 10 as my case.
* Run git Bash under Administrator privilege and navigate to the directory `/c/Program Files/Git/mingw64/bin`, you can run the command `ln -s "/c/Program Files/7-Zip/7z.exe" 7z.exe`
I am pretty sure it could help you a lot. Trust me!
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* the bad thing is that 7zip does not support all cmd switches like `-j` – [Fritz](https://stackoverflow.com/users/2298744/fritz) [Aug 30, 2020 at 11:37](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/38782928/how-to-add-man-and-zip-to-git-bash-installation-on-windows#comment112566317_49285294)
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On **Windows**, you can use ***tar*** instead of ***zip***.
```
tar -a -c -f output.zip myfile.txt
```
which is same as,
```
zip output.zip myfile.txt
```
no need to install any external zip tool.
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* 2Super Idea, Very Clever. This works. – [Sriharsha Kalluru](https://stackoverflow.com/users/1005707/sriharsha-kalluru) [Feb 16, 2022 at 15:00](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/38782928/how-to-add-man-and-zip-to-git-bash-installation-on-windows#comment125760733_71023414)
* Nope. This does not produce a valid zip file in Windows. It produces a tar.gz file. – [sboisse](https://stackoverflow.com/users/738808/sboisse) [Oct 6, 2022 at 21:05](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/38782928/how-to-add-man-and-zip-to-git-bash-installation-on-windows#comment130624726_71023414)
* Since this was a question about git bash, the proper command would be `tar.exe -a -c -f output.zip myfile.txt` Windows delivers BSD tar which is able to create ZIP files. Git Bash provides GNU tar, which can't do the same. – [Christian](https://stackoverflow.com/users/1770720/christian) [Nov 15, 2022 at 17:15](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/38782928/how-to-add-man-and-zip-to-git-bash-installation-on-windows#comment131426487_71023414)
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I use [`choco`](https://chocolatey.org/) as my Windows Package Manager.
I install 7zip with `choco` using `PowerShell` (you must be admin to use Choco)
```
PS > choco install 7zip.install
```
Open another `gitbash` Terminal and locate the `7z.exe` executable
```
$ which 7z
/c/ProgramData/chocolatey/bin/7z
```
Do a straight copy of `7z.exe` to `zip.exe` and `voila`
```
$ cp /c/ProgramData/chocolatey/bin/7z.exe /c/ProgramData/chocolatey/bin/zip.exe
```
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* 1why rename 7z to zip. 7z has different command line usage from zip. – [Phani Rithvij](https://stackoverflow.com/users/8608146/phani-rithvij) [Jan 10 at 0:28](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/38782928/how-to-add-man-and-zip-to-git-bash-installation-on-windows#comment132465996_61567163)
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You can mimic a small subset of man behavior in the shell by mapping `man ` to ` --help | less`
Unfortunately, on my machine bash aliases won't add flags to positional arguments, it will try to run the flag as a command and fail (`alias man="$1 --help"` doesn't work).
And a function called `man()` is not allowed!
Luckily a combination of bash functions and aliases can achieve this mapping. Put the code below in your \~/.bashrc (create one if it is not there). Don't forget to `source ~/.bashrc`.
```
# man command workaround: alias can't pass flags, but can't name function man
m() {
"$1" --help | less
}
alias man="m"
```
It doesn't get you the full man page, but if all you're looking for is basic info on a command and its flags, this might be all you need.
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* Interesting alternative. +1. Although ` --help` is often a small subset of an actual `man ` content – [VonC](https://stackoverflow.com/users/6309/vonc) [Aug 9, 2017 at 20:55](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/38782928/how-to-add-man-and-zip-to-git-bash-installation-on-windows#comment78160312_45597513)
* Creative thinking! :-) My question though was not about the `man` tool alone. And I guess the `zip` functionality is harder to emulate with bash functions & aliases. ;-) – [halloleo](https://stackoverflow.com/users/65889/halloleo) [Aug 10, 2017 at 3:58](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/38782928/how-to-add-man-and-zip-to-git-bash-installation-on-windows#comment78167551_45597513)
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You can install individual GNU tools from such as `zip`.
Then add `"/c/Program Files (x86)/GnuWin32/bin"` to `PATH` in your startup script like `.profile`, `.bash_profile`, `.bashrc`, etc.
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Here are the steps you can follow.
1. Go to the following link
2. Find out whatever command you are missing Here I need zip and bzip2 for zip command. Because zip command relies on bzip2.dll to run. Otherwise you will get error “error while loading shared libraries: ?: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory”.
3. Unzip the downloaded files Here I am downloading “zip-3.0-bin.zip” for “zip.exe” and “bzip2-1.0.5-bin.zip” for “bzip2.dll” in the bin folder. /bin/.exe
4. Copy the command exe file into git-bash folder Here I am copying “zip.exe” and “bzip2.dll” to \Git\usr\bin.
Reference Link
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ln -s /mingw64/bin/ziptool.exe /usr/bin/zip
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* `ln: failed to create symbolic link '/usr/bin/zip': No such file or directory` with Git bash 2.37.2.windows.2 – [Christian](https://stackoverflow.com/users/1770720/christian) [Nov 15, 2022 at 17:19](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/38782928/how-to-add-man-and-zip-to-git-bash-installation-on-windows#comment131426572_66029361)
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steps to install SDKMAN on windows
Run **Windows Terminal** in Admin rights. open git bash inside. (Ctrl + Shift + 4)
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/DaGPe.png)
```bash
winget install -e --id GnuWin32.Zip
mkdir ~/bin
cp /usr/bin/unzip ~/bin/zip
curl -s "https://beta.sdkman.io" | bash
source "/c/Users/ajink/.sdkman/bin/sdkman-init.sh"
sdk selfupdate force
```
After you can install Java like this.
```bash
sdk install java 17.0.2-open
```
Done ! :)
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In msys2, I restored the functionality of `git help ` by installing man-db:
```
|prompt> pacman -Syu man-db
|prompt> git help archive
```
For zip functionality, I also use `git archive` (similar to yukihane's answer).
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Here's yet another **7-Zip** option that I didn't notice:
Create a script named *zip*:
```
$ vi ~/bin/zip
```
Reference 7z specifying the *add* command followed by the args:
```
#!/bin/bash
/c/Progra~1/7-Zip/7z.exe a "$@"
```
Finally make it executable
```
$ chmod ugo+x ~/bin/zip
```
***
This helped to make a *ytt* build script happy.
```
+ zip ytt-lambda-website.zip main ytt
7-Zip 18.01 (x64) : Copyright (c) 1999-2018 Igor Pavlov : 2018-01-28
Scanning the drive:
2 files, 29035805 bytes (28 MiB)
Creating archive: ytt-lambda-website.zip
Add new data to archive: 2 files, 29035805 bytes (28 MiB)
```
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Though this question as been answered quite thoroughly in regards to `man` there is one alternative to zipping that has not been highlighted here yet. @Zartc brought to my attention that there *is* a zip compression utility built-in: `ziptool`. In trying to use it however I found out it is no where near a drop-in replacement and you need to specify each individual file and folder. So I dug into the docs and experimented until I had a bash-function that can do all the heavy lifting and can be used very similar to a basic `zip -qrf name *` compression call:
```bash
zipWithZiptool() {
# Docs: https://libzip.org/documentation/ziptool.html
targetFilePath="$1"
shift
args=() # collect all args in an array so spaces are handled correctly
while IFS=$'\n\r' read -r line; do
if [[ -d "$line" ]]; then
args+=("add_dir" "$line") # Add a single directory by name
else
# add_file
args+=("add_file" "$line" "$line" 0 -1)
fi
done <<< "$(find "$@")" # call find with every arg to return a recursive list of files and dirs
ziptool $targetFilePath "${args[@]}" # quotation is important for handling file names with spaces
}
```
You can then for example zip the contents of the current directory by calling it like this:
```
zipWithZiptool "my.zip" *
```
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* It's a great idea. However, I get "Git/mingw64/bin/ziptool.exe: error while loading shared libraries: ?: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory" on my machine – [Mikaël Mayer](https://stackoverflow.com/users/1287856/mika%c3%abl-mayer) [Jun 1, 2021 at 6:31](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/38782928/how-to-add-man-and-zip-to-git-bash-installation-on-windows#comment119810635_66211685)
* @MikaëlMayer This seems to run without issues on several systems here, so it might be a local problem. Maybe this helps? [github.com/msys2/MINGW-packages/issues/4588](https://github.com/msys2/MINGW-packages/issues/4588) – [Leon S.](https://stackoverflow.com/users/3968618/leon-s) [Jun 1, 2021 at 13:26](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/38782928/how-to-add-man-and-zip-to-git-bash-installation-on-windows#comment119820955_66211685)
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If you are willing to install CygWin also, you can add the CygWin path to your GitBash path, and if zip is there, it will work. e.g. add
```
PATH=$PATH:/c/cygwin/bin
export PATH
```
to your `.bashrc`; NOTE: I would put it at the *end* of the path as shown, not the beginning.
Since CygWin has a UI-based installer, it's easy to add or remove applications like zip or man.
You can figure out the windows paths of each by saying
```
`cygpath -w /bin`
```
in each respective shell.
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* Well, the whole reason why I went down the GitBash/MSYS path was to avoid the installer driven approach of Cygwin. - If I could install Cygwin via zip files or similar (staying away from in-installer downloads) this were my first choice! – [halloleo](https://stackoverflow.com/users/65889/halloleo) [Mar 2, 2019 at 2:29](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/38782928/how-to-add-man-and-zip-to-git-bash-installation-on-windows#comment96671807_54950904)
* Let me guess... With Linux, you run Slackware :^) – [miles zarathustra](https://stackoverflow.com/users/1429578/miles-zarathustra) [Mar 3, 2019 at 7:46](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/38782928/how-to-add-man-and-zip-to-git-bash-installation-on-windows#comment96693528_54950904)
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Regarding `zip`, you can use a following `perl` script to pack files:
```
#!/usr/bin/perl
use IO::Compress::Zip qw(:all);
$z = shift;
zip [ @ARGV ] => $z or die "Cannot create zip file: $ZipError\n";
```
If you make it executable, name it `zip`, and put it in your `$PATH`, you can run it like this:
`zip`` `*`archive.zip`* *`files...`*
however it will not work for directories. There is no need to install anything, as `perl` and all required modules are already there in the *Git for Windows* installation.
Regarding `man`, at least for `git` there is a documentation invoked like this:
`git`` `*`option`*` ``--help`
it will open in your default browser.
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Here is my experience, I cant run and exe or .msi files in my laptop. so downloaded filed from > go to download Now and Downloaded Source Code (Zip) and unzipped this file in a folder and updated path variable with folder name. This worked out for me.
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If you want to zip files without needing to install any additional tools on Windows, in a way that works both on `git bash` and on other \*nix systems, you might be able to use perl.
Per [Josip Medved's blog](https://www.medo64.com/2021/09/zip-in-git-bash/), the following script creates an .epub (which is a zip file), and includes a filter for stripping `src/` from the files added to the zip:
```
perl -e '
use strict;
use warnings;
use autodie;
use IO::Compress::Zip qw(:all);
zip [
"src/mimetype",
<"src/META-INF/*.*">,
<"src/OEBPS/*.*">,
<"src/OEBPS/chapters/*.*">
] => "bin/book.epub",
FilterName => sub { s[^src/][] },
Zip64 => 0,
or die "Zip failed: $ZipError\n";
'
```
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* Interesting to know, but IMHO a how-to about "using language xy to create zip files" is not really an answer to how to install zip and man commands on Windows, particularly when there are quite a few other 'closer' answers... – [halloleo](https://stackoverflow.com/users/65889/halloleo) [Jul 12, 2022 at 1:24](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/38782928/how-to-add-man-and-zip-to-git-bash-installation-on-windows#comment128841407_72944013)
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1. install zip
2. copy zip.exe and bzip2.dll from C:\Program Files (x86)\GnuWin32\bin to C:\Program Files\Git\mingw64\bin
3. reopen git-bash
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Solutions for me were just to install zip on my terminal(bash):
```
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install zip unzip
```
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* 1The question is about Git bash on Windows. There is no apt package manager in this environment. – [Christian](https://stackoverflow.com/users/1770720/christian)
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