> You might try double quotes around the file name construct, > with single quotes embedded to prevent prefixing; so:
> /u/userid/zip31b: >zip -av -1 /tmp/BIG_FILE.zip "//'userid.BIG.FILE'" Thanks, I tried that, still get : /u/userid/zip31b: >zip -av -1 /tmp/BIG_FILE.zip "//'userid.BIG.FILE'" Translating to ASCII... zip warning: name not matched: //'userid.BIG.FILE' zip error: Nothing to do! (/tmp/BIG_FILE.zip) Please Note: This email and its contents are subject to our email legal notice which can be viewed at http://www.sars.gov.za/Email_Disclaimer.pdf ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html