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6 zipnote - write the comments in zipfile to stdout, edit comments and
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11 zipnote [-w] [-b path] [-h] [-v] [-L] zipfile
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15 zipfile Zipfile to read comments from or edit.
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19 -w Write comments to a zipfile from stdin (see below).
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24 -h Show a short help.
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32 zipnote writes the comments in a zipfile to stdout. This is the
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39 To write all comments in a zipfile to stdout use for example
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41 zipnote foo.zip > foo.tmp
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43 This writes all comments in the zipfile foo.zip to the file foo.tmp in
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75 v3.0 of 8 May 2008 zipnote(1)