That's a very good and interesting question. I suppose the reason why I did it the way above is because it's a perl interpretation of the unzipsfx docs (check the man page on unzipsfx - the EXAMPLES section near the bottom).

A quick test shows: 

$ zip -A mysfx /usr/bin/unzipsfx x
  adding: usr/bin/unzipsfx (deflated 52%)
  adding: x (deflated 12%)
$ file mysfx
mysfx: Zip archive data, at least v2.0 to extract

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which is far from what we want. The output is still a zip file. But, if we do the shell version of the perl code above, we get: 
$ cat /usr/bin/unzipsfx mysfx > mysfx_exe
$ zip -A mysfx_exe
mysfx_exe: adjusting offsets for a preamble of 47552 bytes
$ file mysfx_exe
mysfx_exe: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), f
+or GNU/Linux 2.2.5, dynamically linked (uses shared libs), stripped

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I hope that helps.

In reply to Re^3: How to concatenate binary files by Tanktalus
in thread How to concatenate binary files by AnotherMonkWannabe

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