Linux – Store file in zip archive with different name (linux command shell)

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In a linux command line, you zip a file by:

zip -mqj archive.zip file.txt

Now, I need to store 'file.txt' as 'file2.txt' in 'archive.zip', without renaming the file before zipping. When unzipped, the file should be called 'file2.txt'.

How can I store the file with a different name?
Read through the MAN page and didn't find an answer.

Best Answer

Does creating a hard link to file.txt count?

ln file.txt file2.txt

Create file2.txt which points to the exact same inode as file.txt, without actually doubling the space

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Do you mean

tail -f logfile.log

(Man page for tail)

Updating a file in a zip archive from STDIN

Is there a reason you can't just do:

unzip -p sample.odt meta.xml
#modify meta.xml
zip sample.odt -u meta.xml
rm meta.xml

Then you don't have to worry about doing wierd gyrations to pipeline everything back in

In response to you comment, the only two suggestions I can think of is

a) Write the file out to a random temp directory /tmp/<random_number>/meta.xml then do a zip sample.odt -u /tmp/<random_number>/meta.xml

b) Ask on Stack overflow if there is a programatic way to manipulate your zip file.

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Updating a file in a zip archive from STDIN

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