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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Zip with Password Post 302748187 by jim mcnamara on Monday 24th of December 2012 01:21:21 PM
Old 12-24-2012
Use a here document:

Code:
zip -9 -e zipfilename.zip /tmp/myarchive.tar <<EOF
passwordhere
EOF

The last EOF goes in the leftmost column. You can use anything you want instead od EOF - !, PLPL, FOOO
- anything that is junk as far as the shell you use thinks about things.
 

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zipmerge

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

       Dieter Baron <dillo@giga.or.at> and Thomas Klausner <tk@giga.or.at>

NiH								   June 4, 2008 						       ZIPMERGE(1)
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