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Subject:	Re: Adding to a windows zip file without zip.exe
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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 windo=
ws
> ZIP file.
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> 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 t=
he
> PKZIP.exe I would used with a batch script is so old it only accepts 8.3
> filenames.
>=20
> 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 thi=
ngy,=20
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.
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Ren=E9 Berber


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