On Tuesday 16 June 2009, Kirk Wolf wrote:
> Try it - it seems to give you an archive with no files in it. After
> all, what would the file name in the zip directory be?
Well, yes and no. Let's just say "no named files". Unzip shows
something like this:
> unzip -l ../backup.zip
> Archive: ../backup.zip
> Length Date Time Name
> -------- ---- ---- ----
> 20480 06-19-09 20:27 -
> -------- -------
> 20480 1 file
Reading a little further in the man page, we find:
> The backup can be restored using the command
>
> unzip -p backup | tar xf -
It's sort of using zip in place of gzip or bzip2.
It's a little strange, but it actually works.
Cheers,
Bob
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Woodsway Consulting, Inc.
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> On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 6:30 PM, Bob Woodside<ibm...@woodsway.com>
wrote:
> > On Monday 15 June 2009, Kirk Wolf wrote:
> >> I could be wrong, but I don't believe that zip allows input from
> >> stdin. If info-zip uses fopen() to open files, then it might be
> >> possible to read mvs datasets directly as input files.
> >
> > I've never tried it, but here's a quote from the zip man page:
> >> zip also accepts a single dash ("-") as the name of a
> >> file to be compressed, in which case it will read the file
> >> from standard input, allowing zip to take input from another
> >> program. For example:
> >>
> >> tar cf - . | zip backup -
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Bob
> >
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