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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting questions about updating a zip file Post 302606066 by Corona688 on Friday 9th of March 2012 12:54:11 PM
Old 03-09-2012
The only worry I'd have about modifying the same file repeatedly is that the table of contents must be changed, every time. It's not simply adding to the end. Mess up the table of contents and the file's entire contents could be unrecoverable. Be extremely careful to prevent more than one thing from accessing the file simultaneously. This even includes reads, because the table of contents changing in mid-read could cause confusion or worse to the program reading it.

Splitting among a few zips to reduce the potential for damage, and of course keeping backups, may be wise.
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htmltoc

NOWEB(1)						      General Commands Manual							  NOWEB(1)

NAME

       htmltoc - add table of contents to HTML document

SYNOPSIS

       htmltoc [-2345] [file]

DESCRIPTION

       htmltoc	adds  a  table of contents to the HTML document named on the command line or provided as standard input.  The table of contents is
       inserted between <tableofcontents> and </tableofcontents>, which must appear on lines by themselves.  Any text between those two markers is
       discarded.  These markers are inserted automatically by the sl2h(1) filter.

       The  table  of  contents  includes  only  headers  at  levels  2,  3,  4, and 5.  This can be changed by using a command-line option, e.g.,
       -123456789P to include all possible headers.

BUGS

       htmltoc can't cope with a header that is split across multiple lines, even though this is legal HTML.

SEE ALSO

       nowebfilters(7), sl2h(1)

VERSION

       This man page is from noweb version 2.11b.

AUTHOR

       Norman Ramsey, Harvard University.  Internet address nr@eecs.harvard.edu.
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       Stephen Parker provided a preliminary version.

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