Compress/zip a file in HP-UX and then uncompress/unzip the same file

[Deepu Chakravarty]

Pls suggest how to compress or zip a file in HP-UX(11.11). Similarly uncompress/unzip the same file.

[Steven E. Protter]

Lets say the file is called myfile

to zip:
gzip myfile

it becomes myfile.gz

to unzip

or

compress myfile

it becomes myfile.Z

uncompress myfile.Z

it becomes myfile

SEP
gunzip myfile.gz

[Deepu Chakravarty]

Thanks for updates.
New info:
I need to compress a group of files. Like file-1 to file-10 in one file. How to compress these files in one compressed file ?

[Steven E. Protter · Accepted solution]

tar cvf archive.tar /directory/*

All files are put in an archive

gzip archive.tar

becomes archive.tar.gz

gunzip archive.tar.gz

becomes archive.tar

tar xvf archive.tar

files untarred from the tarball.

Hope this has been helpful.

SEP

[Victor Fridyev]

Hi,

You can run the following:

tar cvf - filename1 filename2 dir1 | gzip > arcname.gz

In order to uncompress:

cd somedir; gunzip -c arcname.gz| tar xvf -


The minus sign ( - ) means standard output and standard input

[Steven E. Protter]

Suggestion for Victor:

Try it or start your own thread.

SEP

[Victor Fridyev]

Dear Deepu and Steven
I prefer not to open an additional thread. Please read below, this is a screen copy:
argus:/tmp# ls srvmail.*
srvmail.sh040407.log srvmail.sh040607.log srvmail.sh040807.log
srvmail.sh040507.log srvmail.sh040707.log srvmail.sh041107.log
argus:/tmp# tar cf - srvmail* | gzip > sep.gz
argus:/tmp# mkdir zxc
argus:/tmp# cd zxc
argus:/tmp/zxc# gunzip -c /tmp/sep.gz |tar xf -
argus:/tmp/zxc# ls
srvmail.sh040407.log srvmail.sh040607.log srvmail.sh040807.log
srvmail.sh040507.log srvmail.sh040707.log srvmail.sh041107.log

[SS_6]

You can use compress, gzip commands
#compress abc (To Compress)
#compress -d abc (To decompress)
OR
#uncompress abc
#gzip abc (To Compress)
#gzip -d abc (To decompress)
Use -v option to see compress ratio.
#compress -v abc
You can do man compress or man gzip for more options

[Francisco J. Soler]

Hi Deepu,
you can download and install zip and unzip utilities similar to MS-DOS, to zip and unzip files MS-DOS compatibles.

http://hpux.cs.utah.edu/hppd/hpux/Misc/zip-2.3/
http://hpux.cs.utah.edu/hppd/hpux/Misc/unzip-5.50/

Frank.

[Deepu Chakravarty]

Thanks to all who participated.

--DC

[KapilRaj]

Could you once go through the following link please ....

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/helptips.do?#28?

Regds,

Kaps

[Sanjay Kumar Suri]

Grateful if you allocate points to all those who participated in sorting your posts. 0 to me.
sks