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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting gzip problem Post 302150681 by UBD on Wednesday 12th of December 2007 05:42:13 AM
Old 12-12-2007
gzip problem

Hi,

I am quite new to unix.
I need to do the following using gzip.

a file suppose abc.gz is in the directory.
I need to uncompress it and rename the uncompressed file to ecoes.dat.

can anyon please help me in this regard??
 

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cr_uncompress(3)					     Library Functions Manual						  cr_uncompress(3)

NAME
cr_uncompress - uncompress a file in a crash dump SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
The ensures that a file, part of a crash dump described by crash_cb, is uncompressed and matches its expected size and checksum (as com- puted by cksum(1)). This call is most often used to ensure the integrity of module files that are a part of the crash dump; see cr_info(3). pathname is the name of the file to uncompress. Supported compression methods include gzip(1), which appends a to the filename, and com- press(1), which appends Respectively, size and checksum are the expected size and checksum of the uncompressed file. Either validity check can be disabled by specifying zero for the corresponding parameter. RETURN VALUE
Returns zero for success. Other possible return values are described in libcrash(5). EXAMPLE
The following call to cr_uncompress(3) ensures that the kernel file is uncompressed and validated. AUTHOR
was developed by HP. SEE ALSO
gunzip(1), uncompress(1), cr_info(3), cr_open(3), libcrash(5). cr_uncompress(3)
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