Decompression Problem

andrewt · 08-04-2003, 08:35 AM

Hi people,

I am running KDE interface and everytime I am trying to uncompress .zip file by double clicking those files. It indicate that it is an empty compression.

But when I am open it with winzip (win32 ) program it manage to unzip the directory.

Does anyone have the same problem?

Regards,
Andrew

Mega Man X · 08-04-2003, 08:42 AM

fire up a terminal and try:

unzip <name of the file>

If it's a real .zip file

teval · 08-04-2003, 09:01 AM

Hello,

I'd suggest getting used to tar

man tar, info tar

You can unzip, untar, un.. almost whatever you want with it.
Except for rar, but.. I'm looking into maybe adding that and contributing it.

tar -xvzf <name>

T'Eval

Corin · 08-04-2003, 03:09 PM

And for batch processing how about (it comes as standard with Red Hat 9)

NAME
gitunpack - GNU Interactive Tools - Unified archive unpacking

SYNTAX
gitunpack dir files...

DESCRIPTION
gitunpack is a shell script that accepts a directory and a set of
archives as its command line parameters, and then attempts to unpack
those archives in the given directory, selecting the utility used to
unpack the archives based on the archive extensions.