in reply to Update par packer executable

Main question: How can I remove some files from a par packed executable?

Why?

I'd recommend you don't, a lot of the files are there to make PAR and your program work :)

But if you insist, you should look inside PAR::Packer

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Re^2: Update par packer executable
by Dirk80 (Pilgrim) on Feb 28, 2012 at 19:23 UTC

    The files I want to remove are files from myself which I added with the "-a" option. So the files I want to remove have nothing to do with the files which PAR needs to get the program work.

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      That begs the question, "why did you add these files if they are unnecessary"?

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        I got the additional data from a config management tool. And this tool added ".metadata" folders which I don't want to have in the par packed executable.

        The error when creating the executable was not to delete the ".metadata" folders before.

        Now it's just technically interesting for me to see how I could change a self extractable archive like a par packed executable.

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