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Re: zip up files listed in a file

david@tvis.co.uk

2005-11-04, 5:57 pm

Hi
Neither solution works for me

$ zip all.zip $(cat list.txt)
zip warning: name not matched: x1
zip warning: name not matched: x2
zip warning: name not matched: x3

does work if I join all the lines of list.txt into one long line eg
x1 x2 x3

(I think one of your scripts suggest this)
zzapper