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- From: 873clifton@gw.wmich.edu
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- Subject: Universal Archive Wrapper?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec17.154839.7025@gw.wmich.edu>
- Date: 17 Dec 92 15:48:39 EST
- Organization: Western Michigan University
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- Hello netters.
-
- I spend alot of time working with file archives of different types (zip,zoo,
- lzh,arj,etc.). Now I thought a good idea would be to write a shell or perl
- script to give me a universal interface to all these types, relieving me
- of the need to remember the syntax of each. This `universal archive wrapper'
- would take the following arguments:
-
- > uaw [option] archivefile [file...]
-
- where [option] would be one of a standard set:
-
- -d delete file in archive
- -l list the contents of the archive
- -a add file to archive
- -m move file into archive
- -p print file in archive to stdout
-
- ...
-
- Now before working on this wrapper and in the spirit of avoinding reinvention
- of the wheel, I was wondering whether anyone as already tackled this problem.
-
- Thanks, followup if sufficient interest, else Email to:
-
- 99clifto@lab.cc.wmich.edu
-
- /Doug
-