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Subject: Re: Delete entry from zip?
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From: Stefan Bodewig <bodewig@apache.org>
Date: 10 Apr 2003 08:00:21 +0200
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On Wed, 09 Apr 2003, Adam M. <adamm@sitraka.com> wrote:

> With the current release, is it possible to delete an entry from a
> zip/jar/war file, without expanding it to a temp directory?

Yes, sort of.

<zip destfile="new.zip">
  <zipfileset src="original.zip">
    <exclude name="path/of/thing/to/exclude"/>
  </zipfileset>
</zip>

Stefan