gz??

sk8guitar · 07-23-2003, 01:01 PM

hey, i don't think thjis belongs heres but whatever.

this system i am using at work is a pain. thanks to some guys in the expect/bash thread i got my script to work, but i want to uncompress a gz file, but there is no gzip on this sytem. as far as i know there is just an unzip. is there any way to do this or do i need to bug the sys admin to install gzip?

TheLinuxDuck · 07-23-2003, 01:05 PM

Chances are, when you log in, you have a bin dir in your home dir in the PATH. If so, you can install gzip into your personal directory, and use it from there.. one thing, though, is that if there libraries that gzip needs, and you don't have them.. well, I'm not sure if libraries can be installed in the same way.. I don't think so.. but, maybe you can find a precompiled gzip, and install that.

Hope that helps!

david_ross · 07-23-2003, 01:06 PM

I think you'll need gzip.

Mathieu · 07-23-2003, 01:07 PM

What system are you using ?

At the command line, type whereis gzip
If it is not found, then definitely bug the sys. admin.

What kind of System Administrator does not install GZip.

sk8guitar · 07-25-2003, 11:09 AM

beats me, but the command whereis isn't even recognized in this system. freakin weeeak

TheLinuxDuck · 07-25-2003, 11:34 AM

try which instead. whereis gives you more info than just the location of the binary, including library info, and man pages. which simply gives the location of the binary.

If which isn't recognized, you can also do a manual search of the binary paths, with something like:

for i in `echo $PATH | tr ':' ' '`; do find $i -type f -name "gzip"; done

That will fake the which, sorta.

But, as I said before, if you have a ~/bin dir in the path, you can install it into your home dir and use it just fine (as long as all the necessary libraries are installed).