compressing files

[Flavio Lacks]

What command to compressing files

[DCE]

gzip

compress

[Stephen Keane]

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

[Jeff Schussele]

Hi Flavio,

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

Rgds,
Jeff

[Muthukumar_5]

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.

[Flavio Lacks]

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

[Peter Nikitka]

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

[Raj D.]

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.

[DCE]

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