1zipnote(1)                  General Commands Manual                 zipnote(1)
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NAME

6       zipnote  -  write  the comments in zipfile to stdout, edit comments and
7       rename files in zipfile
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SYNOPSIS

11       zipnote [-w] [-b path] [-h] [-q] [-v] [-L] zipfile
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ARGUMENTS

15       zipfile  Zipfile to read comments from or edit.
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OPTIONS

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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DESCRIPTION

34       zipnote writes the comments in  a  zipfile  to  stdout.   This  is  the
35       default  mode.  A second mode allows updating the comments in a zipfile
36       as well as allows changing the names  of  the  files  in  the  zipfile.
37       These modes are described below.
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EXAMPLES

41       To write all comments in a zipfile to stdout use for example
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45       This  writes all comments in the zipfile foo.zip to the file foo.tmp in
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49       If desired, this file can then be edited to  change  the  comments  and
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54       The  names of the files in the zipfile can also be changed in this way.
55       This is done by following lines like
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57       in the created temporary file (called foo.tmp here) with lines like
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59       and then using the -w option as above.
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BUGS

63       The temporary file format is rather  specific  and  zipnote  is  rather
64       picky about it.  It should be easier to change file names in a script.
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66       Does not yet support large (> 2 GB) or split archives.
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SEE ALSO

70       zip(1), unzip(1)
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AUTHOR

73       Info-ZIP
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77                              v3.0 of 8 May 2008                    zipnote(1)