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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting cowardly refusing to create an empty archive Post 302574061 by Corona688 on Wednesday 16th of November 2011 11:02:56 AM
Old 11-16-2011
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Originally Posted by stunnerz_84
Hey thank you so much for responding...
@corona...It works fine if i dont use xargs...as it just prints the output...
Which looks like what? Post a sample.

I don't see any particular reason it shouldn't work unless it's got spaces in filenames or something wacky like that.

Did you try adding -r to xarg's arguments, too?
 

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ZIPMERGE(1)						      General Commands Manual						       ZIPMERGE(1)

NAME

       zipmerge - merge zip archives

SYNOPSIS

       zipmerge [-DhIiSsV] target-zip source-zip Op source-zip ...

DESCRIPTION

       zipmerge  merges  the  source zip archives source-zip into the target zip archive target-zip.  By default, files in the source zip archives
       overwrite existing files of the same name in the target zip archive.

       Supported options:

	      -D   Ignore directory components in file name comparisons.

	      -h   Display a short help message and exit.

	      -I   Ignore case in file name comparisons

	      -i   Ask before overwriting files.  See also -s.

	      -S   Do not overwrite files that have the same size and CRC32 in both the source and target archives.

	      -s   When -i is given, do not before overwriting files that have the same size and CRC32.

	      -V   Display version information and exit.

EXIT STATUS

       zipmerge exits 0 on success and 1 if an error occurred.

SEE ALSO

       zipcmp(1), ziptorrent(1), libzip(3)

AUTHORS

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