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Re: Adding to a windows zip file without zip.exe


On Wed, 2007-05-16 at 15:17 -0500, DePriest, Jason R. wrote:
> On 5/16/07, Chadwick <> wrote:
> >
> >
> > Cygwin is currently installed on over a hundred windows 2003 servers, and is
> > used to do some admin tasks as well as to pull files from the servers on a
> > daily basis via ssh.  One of the files pulled from each server is a windows
> > ZIP file.
> >
> > I want to add an extra file to this ZIP file using a script.  I looked at
> > both DOS batch scripts and cygwin shell scripts but have run into problems
> > because the cygwin installed on these boxes doesnt contain ZIP.exe, and the
> > PKZIP.exe I would used with a batch script is so old it only accepts 8.3
> > filenames.
> >
> > Updating the servers with new cygwin or command line packages is not an
> > option at this point.
> >
> > That being said, I am a huge cygwin fan and am not willing to give up on a
> > shell script as my solution quite yet.
> >
> > The cygwin version on the servers does have gzip, gunzip, bzip2, bunzip2,
> > and unzip.
> >
> > Unfortunatly I have as yet been unsucceful in using these tools to add a
> > file to my windows zip archive.
> >
> > Any suggestions?
off the wall option -- do the servers have the java 'jar'  application?



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