to tar and zip few files

[Fauziah Mahdan]

Hi all
Need to know the exact command to tar few files into single file then to zip it.
Thanks
Fauziah Mahdan

[Patrick Wallek]

# cd /somedir
# tar -cvf filename.tar file1 file2 file3 file4

To zip, you must have already installed zip on your HP-UX machine as zip is not included.

If you have zip installed, do a 'zip -?' for the syntax as I can't recall exactly the syntax required.

You can always use compress or gzip instead.

# compress filename.tar
will create filename.tar.Z
or

# gzip filename.tar
will create filename.tar.gz

[Fauziah Mahdan]

thanks patrick
where can id download zip file for hpux 11.23 itanium rx2620 server?

[Patrick Wallek · Accepted solution]

Zip is available here:
http://hpux.connect.org.uk/hppd/hpux/Misc/zip-2.31/

Unzip is available here (yes they are separate packages):
http://hpux.connect.org.uk/hppd/hpux/Misc/unzip-5.52/

[Fauziah Mahdan]

ok another question what about if Iw ant to gzip the file by stated the file path.
e.g
/tmp/path/a.tar

[Sandman!]

# gzip /tmp/path/a.tar
OR
# cd /tmp/path && gzip a.tar

[Victor Fridyev]

Hi,

After zip installation run:

Tar cf - file1 file2 | gzip > arc.tar.gz

You don't have to create temporary file.

In order to restore files:

gunzip -c arc.tar.gz | tar xf - [file1 file2 ]

HTH