On 31 October 2014 23:00, Brent wrote:
>
>
> It seems that cygwin's zip can archive files whose name includes non-ascii
> (unicode) chars just fine, but if you try to archive a directory whose name
> includes such chars, it fails.
> $ zip test.zip åØâéñ
> adding: åØâéñ/ (stored 0%)
You need to add the -r option to recurse into directories:
$ zip -r test.zip åØâéñ
adding: åØâéñ/ (stored 0%)
adding: åØâéñ/㐀丁龦豈侮.txt (stored 0%)
$ mkdir tmp2 ; cd tmp2 ; unzip -l ../test2.zip
Archive: ../test2.zip
Length Date Time Name
--------- ---------- ----- ----
0 11-01-2014 01:00 ??????????/
28 11-01-2014 01:00 ??????????/???????????????.txt
--------- -------
28 2 files
$ ls -lR
.:
total 0
drwxr-xr-x+ 1 Doug None 0 Nov 1 01:00 åØâéñ/
./åØâéñ:
total 1.0K
-rw-r--r-- 1 Doug None 28 Nov 1 01:00 㐀丁龦豈侮.txt
So, it appears to me that zip/unzip do not fail when you use the -r option.
Doug
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