problem with PKZIP

[Sushant Gupta]

See the attached file to see the steps I peformed.

My proble is when I am creating a zip with name abc it is created by name "abc".zip and after that I cannot use that file name to remove , move ,copy the file name.

[Arunvijai_4]

Hello,

Can you do with # pkzip abc.zip ? You didnt give .zip extension while creating abc.

-Arun

[Steven E. Protter]

Shalom Sushant,

pkzip creates files with a .zip extension. That is what it does. You can rename the file after its done.

Most Unix machines will be able to interpret and re-inflate the zip files.

SEP

[Bharat Katkar]

Sushant please post ls -la output?

[John Robben]

Had this same problem.

From pkware support:

The quotes are being used due to the initiation of the PKZIP command line stubs (pkzip and pkunzip). The proper PKZIP command would be as follows:

pkzipc -add -max

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Since then, I avoid the "stubs" and call the executable directly:

root@hpd2ts02|[/root/test] > ll
total 0
-rw------- 1 root sys 0 Feb 21 16:24 a.txt
-rw------- 1 root sys 0 Feb 21 16:24 b.txt
-rw------- 1 root sys 0 Feb 21 16:24 c.txt
root@hpd2ts02|[/root/test] > /opt/pkware/pkzip/bin/pkzipc -version
PKZIP(R) Server Version 8 ZIP Compression Utility for HPUX
Copyright (C) 1989-2005 PKWARE, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Registered Version
PKZIP Reg. U.S. Pat. and Tm. Off. Patent No. 5,051,745
Patent Pending

Version 8.40.66
root@hpd2ts02|[/root/test] > /opt/pkware/pkzip/bin/pkzipc -add abc.zip
PKZIP(R) Server Version 8 ZIP Compression Utility for HPUX
Copyright (C) 1989-2005 PKWARE, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Registered Version
PKZIP Reg. U.S. Pat. and Tm. Off. Patent No. 5,051,745
Patent Pending

Using default compression method

Creating .ZIP: abc.zip

Adding File: a.txt Storing ( 0.0%), done.
Adding File: b.txt Storing ( 0.0%), done.
Adding File: c.txt Storing ( 0.0%), done.
root@hpd2ts02|[/root/test] > ll
total 16
-rw------- 1 root sys 0 Feb 21 16:24 a.txt
-rw------- 1 root sys 328 Feb 21 16:25 abc.zip
-rw------- 1 root sys 0 Feb 21 16:24 b.txt
-rw------- 1 root sys 0 Feb 21 16:24 c.txt
root@hpd2ts02|[/root/test] > /opt/pkware/pkzip/bin/pkzipc -view abc.zip
PKZIP(R) Server Version 8 ZIP Compression Utility for HPUX
Copyright (C) 1989-2005 PKWARE, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Registered Version
PKZIP Reg. U.S. Pat. and Tm. Off. Patent No. 5,051,745
Patent Pending

Viewing .ZIP: /root/test/abc.zip

Length Method Size Ratio Date Time CRC-32 Mode Name
------ ------ ---- ----- ---- ---- ------ ---- ----
0B Stored 0B 0.0% 02/21/2006 16:24 00000000 0600 a.txt
0B Stored 0B 0.0% 02/21/2006 16:24 00000000 0600 b.txt
0B Stored 0B 0.0% 02/21/2006 16:24 00000000 0600 c.txt
------ ---- ----- ----
0B 0B 0.0% 3
root@hpd2ts02|[/root/test] > /opt/pkware/pkzip/bin/pkzipc -extract abc.zip
PKZIP(R) Server Version 8 ZIP Compression Utility for HPUX
Copyright (C) 1989-2005 PKWARE, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Registered Version
PKZIP Reg. U.S. Pat. and Tm. Off. Patent No. 5,051,745
Patent Pending

Extracting files from .ZIP: /root/test/abc.zip


PKZIP: (W7) Warning! File: a.txt already exists.
Overwrite (es/o/ll/neer/ename/)? A
Unstoring: a.txt OK
Unstoring: b.txt OK
Unstoring: c.txt OK

Hope this helps,

John