zip -r

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zip -r

hello,

normally zip -r works fine for me but this code will return zip file structure invalid error:


zip -r directory.named.foo directory.named.foo

if the name of the directory did not include the "." there would be no issue. i see in man zip that the "." is not recommended with the -r flag but i couldn't quite figure out the alternative. i see the finder can do it so i'm sure there must be a way. 🙂 any help is appreciated.

thanks,

rick

macbook, Mac OS X (10.5.8)

Posted on Aug 26, 2009 9:10 AM

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Answer 1

Kappy

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Aug 26, 2009 10:06 AM in response to rick722

Have you tried putting the entire name in quotes, e.g., "directory.named.foo"?

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Answer 2

rick722 Author

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Aug 26, 2009 10:49 AM in response to Kappy

thanks kappy for the reply. unfortunately it's the same either way...

rick

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Answer 3

Kappy

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Aug 26, 2009 11:07 AM in response to rick722

Guess that means you can't use the "." in a path name with that command line option. Have you tried other zip utilities than the one you are using? Must you use a Unix command because there are numerous GUI based utilities like Zipeg - VersionTracker or MacUpdate.

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Answer 4

Aug 26, 2009 4:52 PM in response to rick722

Did you try

zip -r <name of zip archive file> <directory to be zipped>

zip -r directory.named.foo.zip directory.named.foo/

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Answer 5

Linc Davis

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Aug 26, 2009 9:22 PM in response to rick722


$ mkdir directory.named.foo
$ touch !$/file1
touch directory.named.foo/file1
$ zip directory.named.foo directory.named.foo
 zip warning: missing end signature--probably not a zip file (did you
 zip warning: remember to use binary mode when you transferred it?)
zip error: Zip file structure invalid (directory.named.foo)
$ zip directory.named.foo.zip directory.named.foo
 adding: directory.named.foo/ (stored 0%)
$ touch directory.named.foo/file2
$ zip -r directory.named.foo.zip directory.named.foo
updating: directory.named.foo/ (stored 0%)
 adding: directory.named.foo/file1 (stored 0%)
 adding: directory.named.foo/file2 (stored 0%)

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Answer 6

rick722 Author

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Aug 26, 2009 9:33 PM in response to Linc Davis

thank you all for the replies and yes as the last 2 posts showed it should have the .zip extension just that it wasn't exposed as a problem until i encountered directories with a dot. thank you i was sure there was a simple solution somewhere i was overlooking...

rick

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