How to handle metacharacters through zip command

[Dennis Handly · Accepted solution]

>the oldest version I have,

This also works: Zip 2.31 (March 8th 2005)

Even if the "*" expands to directories with "$".

[allanm77]

Thanks upgrading zip worked.

[Steven Schweda]

> Thanks upgrading zip worked.

   Would it be a complete waste of time to ask (again) which version had
the problem, and which didn't, and what you did, and what the actual
message was, and so on?

[Steven Schweda]

> This also works: Zip 2.31 (March 8th 2005)

   Around here, after a little dredging and fiddling, so do "Zip 2.3
(November 29th 1999)" and "Zip 2.0 (Sept 7th 1993)", so I still suspect
user error over a program defect.

> Would it be a complete waste of time [...]

   Apparently so, but I'm always open to evidence.