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Old 08-04-2010
Zip a file with .zip extension.

Hi,
I need to zip a .dat file with .zip extension. I tried using the "zip" command. But shell says. "ksh: zip: not found"
Currently I am using gunzip to zip and changing the extension ".gz" to ".zip" as follows.
mv $file `echo $file | sed 's/\(.*\.\)gz/\1zip/'`

But when I tried opening with winzip, it says "Not a valid archive". But it opens with Winrar.
Can anyone help me here.?

Thanks,

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I got this resolved. This has something to do with the profile setting. It works in other login ids for the same server.
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Old 08-04-2010
gzip is not zip, and doesn't even share a lot of functionality with zip. you can't have more than one file per gz unless you bundle them with tar, for example.
 
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