From: Takashi Yano <takashi.yano@nifty.ne.jp>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: unzip failure to recognize '--'
Date: Sun, 19 Jun 2022 08:40:11 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20220619084011.16198091b4c0f611ff4de541@nifty.ne.jp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKwdsS-ZDR_ZFAkVwPci4mdcYcjONN_yoSb5sLxK678RRgfVmA@mail.gmail.com>
On Sat, 18 Jun 2022 15:08:35 -0700
Backwoods BC wrote:
> I'm tacking 'unzip' this issue on here since it seems appropriate:
> Unzip does not recognize the standard '--' flag to tell it to stop
> looking for flags.
>
> I was processing some files that started with '--' and I ended up
> having to use 'cygpath' to expand them to absolute paths so that unzip
> wouldn't complain.
As you already recognized, Info-zip utility does not support '--'
flag. This is not a bug but by design. It can easily treats the
file name beginning with '-' as follows.
touch -- -d -x
zip ./--abc.zip ./-d ./-x
rm -- -d -x
unzip ./--abc.zip '\-d'
--
Takashi Yano <takashi.yano@nifty.ne.jp>
prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-06-18 23:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-06-15 18:30 unzip failure with files that contain colons Adam Dinwoodie
2022-06-16 4:22 ` Thomas Wolff
2022-06-16 15:29 ` Takashi Yano
2022-06-16 15:50 ` Eliot Moss
2022-06-16 16:44 ` Takashi Yano
2022-06-18 20:23 ` Andrey Repin
2022-06-17 7:20 ` Adam Dinwoodie
[not found] ` <CAKwdsS-ZDR_ZFAkVwPci4mdcYcjONN_yoSb5sLxK678RRgfVmA@mail.gmail.com>
2022-06-18 23:40 ` Takashi Yano [this message]
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