zip in solaris

Ayesha12 · 01-02-2012, 02:02 AM

Hi,

I want to zip directories on my solaris box, but i am not able to find a proper command,

i used zip -r <dirname>.zip <dir name>
but a file with a unique name was created which dnt have the contents,

i used tar -cvEf only archiving was done.
I need to zip 100GB directories to save space.

Please help

bathory · 01-02-2012, 03:17 AM

Hi,

You can use:

Code:

/usr/bin/tar cvf - /path/to/directory |gzip - > directory.tar.gz

BTW the zip -r should work too

Regards

Ayesha12 · 01-02-2012, 03:46 AM

Hi,

Thank you for the reply, but how will i unzip and extract the files?

bathory · 01-02-2012, 04:33 AM

Hi,

If you used the tar/gzip command above, you should run:

Code:

gunzip < directory.tar.gz | tar xvf -

If you used zip then unzip filename.zip should do the job

Regards

jlliagre · 01-02-2012, 07:10 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ayesha12

I want to zip directories on my solaris box, but i am not able to find a proper command,

i used zip -r <dirname>.zip <dir name>
but a file with a unique name was created which dnt have the contents

As already written, "zip -r" should work.
How did you conclude the zip file had no content ?
What says

Code:

zipinfo dirname.zip

?