Write the comments in a zipfile to stdout, edit comments and rename files in a zipfile
Syntax:
zipnote [-h] [-L] [-q] [-v] [-w] [-b path] zipfile
Options:
- -b path
- Use the specified path for the temporary zip archive.
This option lets you specify a directory that you know has enough space to store the archive.
- -h
- Display a help message and exit.
- -L
- Display the zipnote license and exit.
- -q
- Change to quiet mode by eliminating informational messages and command prompts.
- -v
- Print version information and exit.
- -w
- Write the zipfile comments from stdin.
- zipfile
- The zipfile whose comments you want to write out or edit, or whose files you want to rename.
Description:
The default mode of zipnote writes the comments in a zipfile to stdout.
Use -w to enable the second mode which allows updating the comments as well as changing the names of the files in a zipfile.
To change a filename, add a line “@=newname”.
Examples:
The ed utility could be used to edit the zipfile comments:
zipnote foo.zip > foo.tmp
ed foo.tmp
# After editing and saving the comments in the file,
# and exiting the editor,
# you can then update the comments in the zipfile
zipnote -w foo.zip < foo.tmp