unzip in hp-ux

[Ravi_8]

Hi, all
In hp-ux 11.0 we have gunzip, so that we can gunzip all gzip files. but how to unzip a zip file. i tried using gunzip to zip files, but it gives me the error
#gunzip ri202-L010920.zip
gunzip: ri202-L010920.zip: unknown suffix -- ignored
does anybody has done unzipping pls respond.

TIA

[Alex Glennie]

Isn't zip a pc format encoding (for want of a better word) .... in which case you will need to unzip it on a pc and then ftp it over to hpux ?

I'm not sure if there are any utilities under hpux that
will work on zipped files but if there are I'm sure someone will post to this forum shortly .... just my $ 0.02

[Frederic Sevestre]

Hi Ravi
If you move your ri202-L010920.zip
to ri202-L010920.gz, it is possible to unzip it using gunzip.
I have ever tested it with a text file, it worked propelly

Fr?d?ric

[Santosh Nair_1 · Accepted solution]

You would need to download zip/unzip utilites in order to unzip a file. They're available at the HP Porting Center:

http://hpux.cs.utah.edu/hppd/hpux/Misc/unzip-5.42/

http://hpux.cs.utah.edu/hppd/hpux/Misc/zip-2.3/

-Santosh

[harry d brown jr]

gunzip will "unzip a zip" file by adding the option -S <.suffix> to gunzip like this:

gunzip -S .zip ri202-L010920.zip

[Thierry Poels_1]

Hi,

Santosh is right (again;).

Whilst winzip is capable in reading gzip, compress, tar, ... It is not that easy in the other direction. Even renaming the extension to .gz will not work. Gzip handles single files, winzip can compress multiple files/directories in one archive. You'll require an extra utility to manipulate the winzip files, as mentioned by Santosh.

good luck,
Thierry.

[harry d brown jr]

If the file was "zipped" using zip, then gunzip will work to unzip it by using the -S .zip option on gunzip. I tried it and it works like a champ.

[Santosh Nair_1]

Harry,

I just tried it and it does seem to work as long as the zip file only has one entry (btw, neat trick...never knew this). However, if there are multiple files in the archive, then gzip does not know how to handle it.

-Santosh

[Thierry Poels_1]

sjips :(
After Harry's post I tried everything again :
gunzip -S .zip file : worked OK!
mv file.zip file.gz; gunzip file : worked OK!

I tried renaming & gunzip this morning and it failed!! although the zip-file contained only one file (directorylist messed up after add and remove from archive??).

Conclusion: gunzip of winzip files works only in the afternoon, whoehahahaha ;-)))

regards,
Thierry.

[Ravi_8]

Hi everybody

Thanx a lot for your help. pls find the URL from where we can download the unzip(.depot form) and install.

http://h21007.www2.hp.com/dspp/tech/tech_TechTypeListingPage_IDX/1,1704,10312,00.html

once again thanx a lot

ravi