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Date: | Wed, 16 May 2007 15:17:15 -0500 |
From: | "DePriest, Jason R." <jrdepriest AT gmail DOT com> |
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Subject: | Re: Adding to a windows zip file without zip.exe |
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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? > > > -- One of the Windows Resource Kits has a tool called compress.exe designed to handle Windows Compressed Folders (Zip Files) from the command line. Maybe you'll be lucky and your servers will have this command present. -Jason -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
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