This seems like the kind of question that could be found in the man for ditto, but I've read that and googled this question with no answer.
I simply want to archive a few files using ditto, like this:
ditto -ckv file1 file2 file3 newfile.zip
It seems that ditto allows for multiple source files. But I get an error.
Does anyone if there's a way to make this work or can you confirm that ditto won't allow this?
Updated Answer
You can do that with built-in zip command:
zip archive.zip file1 file2 file3
or, more simply:
zip archive.zip file[123]
Original Answer
You can do that with 7zip.
Here I write (add) 3 files to an archive:
7z a archive.zip file1 file2 file3
Now, I check what's in it:
7z l archive.zip
7-Zip [64] 16.02 : Copyright (c) 1999-2016 Igor Pavlov : 2016-05-21
p7zip Version 16.02 (locale=utf8,Utf16=on,HugeFiles=on,64 bits,8 CPUs x64)
Scanning the drive for archives:
1 file, 2827 bytes (3 KiB)
Listing archive: archive.zip
--
Path = archive.zip
Type = zip
Physical Size = 2827
Date Time Attr Size Compressed Name
------------------- ----- ------------ ------------ ------------------------
2017-06-19 21:48:35 ..... 1684 811 file1
2017-06-19 21:48:39 ..... 1690 813 file2
2017-06-19 21:48:41 ..... 1696 815 file3
------------------- ----- ------------ ------------ ------------------------
2017-06-19 21:48:41 5070 2439 3 files
I could equally check the contents with unzip:
unzip -l archive.zip
Archive: archive.zip
Length Date Time Name
--------- ---------- ----- ----
1684 06-19-2017 21:48 file1
1690 06-19-2017 21:48 file2
1696 06-19-2017 21:48 file3
--------- -------
5070 3 files
I installed 7zip with homebrew using:
brew install p7zip