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Top Forums UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers Zipping Post 303013965 by hicksd8 on Friday 2nd of March 2018 02:11:54 PM
Old 03-02-2018
Yes, you could but look up the difference between relative and absolute pathing.

If you use /home/jsmith then you can (normally) only restore it to that location, whereas, if you archive it with a relative name '.' you can restore it anywhere.

So when your user reports that he has lost a file you can restore the archive in some completely different location WITHOUT overwriting his current files. That's why most pro's always use relative pathnames.
 

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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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