topic Re: compressing files in Operating System - HP-UX

compressing files

Flavio Lacks — Tue, 30 Aug 2005 07:16:19 GMT

What command to compressing files

Re: compressing files

DCE — Tue, 30 Aug 2005 07:17:42 GMT

gzip

compress

Re: compressing files

Stephen Keane — Tue, 30 Aug 2005 07:19:53 GMT

Try compress or gzip or pack, they should also have man pages for you to look at.

Re: compressing files

Jeff Schussele — Tue, 30 Aug 2005 07:21:22 GMT

Hi Flavio,

There are also 3rd party utils like zip & bzip.

Rgds,
Jeff

Re: compressing files

Muthukumar_5 — Tue, 30 Aug 2005 07:25:05 GMT

You can do archive + compress as,

# tar -cvf test.tar /*

It will created test.tar file.

# Compress it as,
# gzip test.tar

It will create, test.tar.gz

If you have bzip then it is more good.

hth.

Re: compressing files

Flavio Lacks — Tue, 30 Aug 2005 07:26:37 GMT

I need write file whith ZIP, I using tar or backup ? what command

Re: compressing files

Peter Nikitka — Wed, 31 Aug 2005 08:08:48 GMT

Hi,

you can download a depot-file from
http://hpux.asknet.de/hppd/hpux/Misc/zip-2.31/

Add the product to your system via swinstall and then you can compress your tar files.

Note, that you can pipe a tar-output directly to zip:

tar cf - . | zip mybackup.tar.zip -

mfG Peter

Re: compressing files

Raj D. — Wed, 31 Aug 2005 08:36:01 GMT

Hi Flavio ,

To compress files :

You can use

1. compress filename [ output filename.Z ]
2. tar -cvf file.tar * [ output file.tar ]
3. gzip filename [ output filename.gz ]

cheers ,

Raj.

Re: compressing files

DCE — Wed, 31 Aug 2005 08:42:52 GMT

favio

Go to the following site and enter zip in the search criteria

http://gatekeep.cs.utah.edu/hppd/hpux/

You will get a list of tools that compress files. Choose the one you want, download and install it. They all have instructions/man pages.

This is an excellent site for getting all sorts of tools to help you manage your systems