uncompress

[Madhu_17]

Hello,

I have small query.. I want to uncompress a .Z file. I don't have sufficient space in my filesystem. In anothe rfilesystem i have sufficient space. How to go about

1) How to uncompress and save the output file in the same directory, temporarily using the space of other filesystem?
2) how to uncompress a file and saving the output to a different filesystem using temporary space of other filesystem only?

Thanks

[RAC_1]

1. I do not think this is possible.
2. uncompress "file" > /other_fs/uncompressed_file.

[Muthukumar_5 · Accepted solution]

Try as,

# zcat > //filename

hth.

[Arunvijai_4]

You can try as,

#uncompress > //file_name>

#compress -f > //file_name>

-Arun

[Muthukumar_5]

1) You may be done by creating a symbolic link to another file system file.

Example:

/tmp/test/file.Z

You are going to uncompress file.Z within /tmp/test file then,

create a file as,

# ln -s /file1 file.log
# zcat file.Z > file.log

file.log will use only 13 or 12 byte space.

2) you can achive by redirecting output to another file system file (as said in prev post).

hth.

[Madhu_17]

Hello All,

Thanks for all your replies.

Before posting the query itself, i have tried the below option without any luck.

uncompress > //file_name>

I will try other options and let you know.

[Muthukumar_5]

can you try as,

uncompress >| //file_name>

may be a change of noclobber enabled.

Are you getting error messages more. post that.

hth.

[Madhu_17]

Thanks all for great response.

below command did the trick.

# zcat > //filename