To Zip Or Not To Zip

[boxturt]

I downloaded a full backup just now. There are about 16,000 files I am going to alter slightly. These are all regular html pages. If I zip them up again and upload the one zip file to the right folder will I be able to unzip that file and overwrite the 16,000 original files??

 

Or will this really mess things up?

 

ty

[surefire]

There are about 16,000 files I am going to alter slightly.

 

16k files... holy @#$%

 

If there was ever an example of why someone might want to use PHP, SSI or ASP to make site-wide alterations by just changing two files instead of uploading a whole site... this is it.

 

But you didn't ask about that...

 

Unfortunately, I don't know if you can unzip files after they've been uploaded. I haven't been able to make that work in the past.

 

I had to remark on this post just out of amazement at the number of files.

[TCH-Rob]

I was able to unzip my shopping cart using the extract feature in CPanel and it worked fine. I do not know if it will overwrite the files though. I say as long as you dont get your shell stuk, zip it up.

[boxturt]

yea, 16k worth. Actually doing it (hoping to do it) so that I CAN include the one line for SSI. However I ran into a problem on a test run:

File Type: Zip archive data, at least v2.0 to extract

 

Archive:  x.zip

  inflating: xanadu.html           

replace bg1.jpg? [y]es, [n]o, [A]ll, [N]one, [r]ename: error:  invalid response [ ]

replace xanadu.html? [y]es, [n]o, [A]ll, [N]one, [r]ename:  NULL

(assuming [N]one)

 

Now what the heck does that mean? Aside from it didn't work. Should I not be using WinZip 8.0?

 

I can of course just ftp 16k worth

[TCH-JimE]

Hi,

 

Its going to ask you each time what you want to do, in your case, rewrite the file, but you will have to press Y each time. I would FTP files for speed and the preservation of my Y key

 

Jim

[boxturt]

Hiya Jim,

 

On the couple of tests I ran it did not prompt me for anything, just delivered the same error as I posted above.

 

And yes, I FTP'd all 16,000 of them back up the hill and all the stuff I added to the pages works just fine - mostly SSI stuff.

 

BTW - I was able to insert the extra lines with a few lines of perl and a .bat file I wrote. If anyone would like a look just let me know. I was able to add the lines to all 16k of files in about 20 minutes.

 

Thanks for all your responses to yet another bizarre boxturt query!

 

ty