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/
