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Subject: RE: Adding to a windows zip file without zip.exe
Date: Thu, 17 May 2007 00:12:23 +0100
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On 16 May 2007 20:33, 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.

  Could you pull /both/ the zip and the new file by ssh, and just install and
use zip.exe on the one machine where you're receiving them, and add the file
to the zip there?


    cheers,
      DaveK
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