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Package: zip
Version: 2.32-1
Severity: normal
The man page of zip is severly wrong when it tells in DESCRIPTION that
"-r" is for "replace". It's not. "-r" is for "Travel the directory
structure recursively" (as OPTIONS says correctly). The option to replace
files is "-u" for "update" (also described in OPTIONS).
Regards,
Gregor Hoffleit
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0.3
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (990, 'stable'), (500, 'proposed-updates'), (500, 'unstable'),
(500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-1-686-bigmem (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages zip depends on:
ii libc6 2.10.1-1 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
Versions of packages zip recommends:
ii unzip 5.52-12 De-archiver for .zip files
zip suggests no packages.
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On Wed, 21 Oct 2009, Gregor Hoffleit wrote:
> Package: zip
> Version: 2.32-1
> Severity: normal
>
> The man page of zip is severly wrong when it tells in DESCRIPTION that
> "-r" is for "replace". It's not. "-r" is for "Travel the directory
> structure recursively" (as OPTIONS says correctly). The option to replace
> files is "-u" for "update" (also described in OPTIONS).
(Is this a joke?)
No, the manpage of zip does not say that "-r is for replace".
Instead, it says that "When given the name of an existing zip archive,
zip will replace identically named entries in the zip archive or add
entries for new names."
Nowhere it says that you need -r for that to happen.
The fact that the example which follows uses the -r option does not
mean that you have to use -r for that replacement to happen, as the
replacement happens by default, i.e. always.
While we are at it, option -u is not to just "replace" either.
As explained, replacement happens by default. Option -u is precisely
so that replacement happens *only* on certain files, not on all of
them.
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