Try it - it seems to give you an archive with no files in it. After all, what would the file name in the zip directory be?
On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 6:30 PM, Bob Woodside<[email protected]> wrote: > On Monday 15 June 2009, Kirk Wolf wrote: >> I could be wrong, but I don't believe that zip allows input from >> stdin. If info-zip uses fopen() to open files, then it might be >> possible to read mvs datasets directly as input files. > > I've never tried it, but here's a quote from the zip man page: > >> zip also accepts a single dash ("-") as the name of a file >> to be compressed, in which case it will read the file from >> standard input, allowing zip to take input from another program. >> For example: >> >> tar cf - . | zip backup - > > > Cheers, > Bob > > ---- > Bob Woodside > Woodsway Consulting, Inc. > [email protected] > http://www.woodsway.com > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO > Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
