
The resulting archive should be valid, but any inconsistent entries will be left Input archive is scanned as usual, but zip will ignore some problems. The -F option can be used if some portions of the archive are missing, but requires a reasonably intact central directory. Then the zip utility has two other useful options: -Fįix the zip archive.

f freshen: only changed files -u update: only changed or new files If zipfile and list are omitted, zip compresses stdin to stdout.


The default action is to add or replace zipfile entries from list, which can include the special name – to compress standard input.
