I want to zip up my fstab file for backup purposes.
This does not work because of permission issues.
cd /etc/
zip -u fstab.zip fstab
Can I use this with zip?
echo xxx | sudo -S
or change fstab owner to me?
cd
cat /etc/fstab | zip -u fstab.zip -
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unzip -p fstab.zip > fstab.txt
It made a file fstab.zip, but the compressed file is named -.
Seems clumsy, but works.
unzip fstab.zip
mv - fstab
Use -j to junk the path element, i.e. zip -u -j this.zip /etc/fstab and you need not run it from inside /etc any more.
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