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How to replace a file in an archive without extracting?

Hello, I need to open up an archive and replace one file with the other. As archive file is and actual .ipa file (I'm just changing its type), I don't want to extract it and then re-zip it and rename it to .ipa.


It's beyond simpleness on Windows OS, but on a Mac you can only see content of an archive and extract any chosen one, but not replacing it directly.


Maybe there are simple terminal commands to do so?



Thank you.

Posted on Jul 11, 2014 3:18 PM

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Posted on Jul 11, 2014 5:00 PM

man zip

or see it on the web: https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/DOCUMENTATION/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/ man1/zip.1.html

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How to replace a file in an archive without extracting?

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