Quoting Jan Pfeifer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > I'm trying to compress with passwords a couple of hundred files using > "zip" (I have to use this, as some of the compressed files will go to > windoze users), but "zip" only seems to take the password from a > terminal, so I can't use the "<" redirector of bash. Is there a way of > fooling it, so it reads from a file, believing it to be a terminal ? > Or any other way round ?
Don't bother? Just compress twice for one password prompt: zip unprotected.zip list of hundreds of files... zip -e protected.zip unprotected.zip Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer: These addresses are only for reaching me, and do not signify official stationery. Views expressed here are either my own or plagiarised.