how to uncompress patches.zip

[Hanry Zhou]

I downloaded a number of patches in operations, as result of that, I got a file paches.zip, but how do I uncompress the file in unix?

Please let me know.

Thanks,

[Umapathy S]

uncompress patches.zip

this will do

-Umapathy

[Hanry Zhou]

No, uncompress will not be working:

uncompress patches.zip
patches.zip.Z: No such file or directory


if I chnage it's name to patches.Z

uncomress patches.Z
Error: the file is not in compressed format

[Patrick Wallek]

You need to do 1 of 2 things:

1) get the file to your PC and unzip it using standard PC utilities.

2) get an unzip utility for HP-UX and use it. Here is one that will work: http://hpux.connect.org.uk/hppd/hpux/Misc/unzip-5.50/

[Jeff Schussele]

Hi Hanry,

gzip should be able to uncompress it.
Rename it to .gz, .z or .Z first

Do a man gzip for further details.

HTH,
Jeff

[H.Merijn Brand (procura · Accepted solution]

Uzing pkunzip

compress: .Z
gzip: .gz, .tar.gz, .tgz
bzip2: .bz, .bz2, .tar.bz2, .tbz
pkzip: .zip

get it in the download section of my ITRC page: https://www.beepz.com/personal/merijn/ or http://www.cmve.net/~merijn/ (look for unzip)

Enjoy, have FUN! H.Merijn

[Umapathy S]

oh. apologies.. Was really in a hurry and messed.

As Patrick has indicated, you need to download unzip.

ps : Normally I use to select package as gzip to avoid these.

Sorry.

-Umapathy

[Dario_1]

Hi!

Use WINZIP to unzip the file. You can get it at www.winzip.com but you will have to unzip in your PC first and then ftp the files to the UNIX box.

Regards,

DR

[Jeff Schussele]

I guess I should have noted that gunzip CAN uncompress zip files - but ONLY if the archive contains ONLY a single file. Of course the patch bundles contain multiple files.
Next time you should download it in gzip format & you won't need anybody's help.

Jeff