How to deal with unzip error on a large file in OSX?

I downloaded the latest Raspbian image from the raspberrypi.org website on my Mac running OS X 10.10.5 The SHA-1 checksum agrees with that listed on the website.

When I try to extract using unzip I get the following error

warning [2015-09-24-raspbian-jessie.zip]:  76 extra bytes at beginning or within zipfile
  (attempting to process anyway)
error [2015-09-24-raspbian-jessie.zip]:  reported length of central directory is
  -76 bytes too long (Atari STZip zipfile?  J.H.Holm ZIPSPLIT 1.1
  zipfile?).  Compensating...
   skipping: 2015-09-24-raspbian-jessie.img  need PK compat. v4.5 (can do v2.1)

note:  didn't find end-of-central-dir signature at end of central dir.
  (please check that you have transferred or created the zipfile in the
  appropriate BINARY mode and that you have compiled UnZip properly)

I managed to unzip it with tar.

tar xzvf 2015-09-24-raspbian-jessie.zip

Requires no installation of additional software

The ZIP file can also be uncompressed using ditto, no software installation needed:

ditto -x -k 2015-09-24-raspbian-jessie.zip .

Worked for me.

You can use 7za from p7zip installed from brew:

brew install p7zip

and then unzip using the command

 7za x big_file.zip

How to deal with unzip error on a large file in OSX?

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