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Re: Adding to a windows zip file without zip.exe
- From: Reid Thompson <Reid dot Thompson at ateb dot com>
- Cc: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 16 May 2007 16:28:55 -0400
- Subject: Re: Adding to a windows zip file without zip.exe
- References: <10653042.post@talk.nabble.com> <f2fpg3$ngi$1@sea.gmane.org>
- Reply-to: Reid dot Thompson at ateb dot com
On Wed, 2007-05-16 at 15:29 -0500, Renà Berber wrote:
> 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.
> [snip]
> > Any suggestions?
>
> Use java, specifically `jar` which is just a fancy unzip-then-call-java thingy,
> and it also does just work as zip (with tar like use).
>
> Just do:
>
> jar -h
> jar -tvf your.zip
> jar -cvf another.zip files...
>
> Remember to use only DOS/Windows paths.
jar -uvf your.zip the_new_file
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