[Techtalk] Copying a file + archive to one file

[Cynthia Kiser]

If you want to end up with a single file containing the contents of
other files, you could use "cat" to append. But I doubt you will end
up with an executable file - even if you do name it something.exe

If you want to add stuff to your zip archive, you can do that. From
the zip man page: 

  When given the name of an existing zip archive, zip will replace
  identically named entries in the zip archive or add entries for new
  names.  For example, if foo.zip exists and contains foo/file1 and
  foo/file2, and the directory foo contains the files foo/file1 and
  foo/file3, then:

		zip -r foo foo

  will replace foo/file1 in foo.zip and add foo/file3 to foo.zip.  After
  this, foo.zip contains foo/file1, foo/file2, and foo/file3, with
  foo/file2 unchanged from before.


Quoting Becky Brewer <beckysue74 at cox.net>:
> I am somewhat of a Linux newbie - just getting back into it after a couple
> of years on MS systems.  I'm trying to copy a file plus a zip archive into
> one file (an exe), and from what I've read the cp command is not able to do
> this.   In DOS, the command I would use to perform this action is:
>  
> copy /B myapp.exe+myzip.zip mynewapp.exe
>  
> I know that two or more files may be copied to a directory using the cp
> command, but have not found any documentation indicating that two files may
> be copied into the third in Linux, as they could be in DOS.  The mv command
> seems to work the same way.
>  
> Am I missing something?  Is there another command that I am not aware of
> that is capable of performing this action?  This needs to be a command-line
> operation, and I am running Redhat 9 on this machine.  Any advice would be
> appreciate - TIA!
>  
> Becky
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Cynthia N. Kiser
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