As I said, John, the code I am using comes straight out of the man page.


It turns out that I have had a breakthrough in the last fifteen minutes.
It looks like the -x \*.o does not come before the file list, but after.
I am still testing this to see if it is true, but it sure looks like it
at this point.

Which, of course, lays waste to my own assertion that it "comes straight
out of the man page..."  Sigh.

John


-----Original Message-----
From: Macintosh Scripting Systems
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Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2007 4:47 PM
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Subject: Re: Shell scripting a zip file

At 4:08 pm -0500 26/6/07, john darnell wrote:

>The "-x \*.o" comes straight out of an example in the man page for 
>zip, including its placement in the command.  Nevertheless, I am 
>doing something wrong.  Can anyone help?

Are you sure you want to escape the asterisk or do you actually want 
it to be a wildcard? in which case it should not be escaped.

JD