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How to fix "Unzip: Unrecognized archive format" error in FreeBSD?

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# cd /usr/ports/archivers/libarchive
# make install clean

# ln -sf /usr/local/bin/bsdtar /usr/bin/tar
# tar --version
bsdtar 3.1.2 - libarchive 3.1.2
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There may be several answers to this issue, but I will share what the problem was in my case.

The ZIP file I tried to unzip turned out to be empty.

I discovered this by checking the file type:

>>> file [filename]
[filename].zip: empty

and the file size

>>> ls -lh
total 0
-rw-r--r-- 1 user user 0B Nov 8 09:08 [filename].zip

The solution was to perform the copying again, and ensuring that the file was no longer empty by re-running ls -lh

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