1. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

I have hundreds of ".Z" files that I need to uncompress and gzip. I'm not sure how to handle this in a 'for loop'. I can get the uncompress part, but I'm not sure how to strip the .Z off the filename for the gzip step. Is it possible to pipe the output of uncompress to gzip? (2 Replies)

2. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

hi i dont can traspassing file from unix sco compress whit pack or compress i dont can descompress whit other program... how i can do descompress that file in windows me.??? thank very much... pd:sorry my inglish (6 Replies)

3. SCO

Our End of Day backup routine uses following script. start End-of-day compress $BASE TO /home/compdir write /home/compdir to DATTAPE end where $BASE=/home2/Rev83 DATATAPE=/dev/rmt/ctape1 write=cpio (not sure about parameters) since I'm new to UNIX, i dont know how to restore data... (1 Reply)

4. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

I am brand new to unix and am hoping someone can start me in the right direction. I hope I have the right forum but if not can a moderator move this thread to the right area. I am moving servers and need to back up a folder and its sub folders into a .tar.gz file then want to upload that file... (2 Replies)

5. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

hi can i know the diff between these 2 commands in terms of data compressed (3 Replies)

6. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

I have a file that contains user id and corresponding password. Lets say password is "help". The below command will create a hex value for string "help". perl -e 'print unpack "H*","help"' So now password is in encoded format. Then I decoded it in the script where am fetching the... (1 Reply)

7. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Duplicate threads merged jmc Hi, I have a script wherein I want to use gzip instead of compress. # cat dly_appsfiles_bkp.ksh # # dly_appsfiles_bkp.ksh # date_stamp=`date +%m%d%y` base_dir=/u05/gld1 sub_dir=apps bkp_dir=/u00/backup/GLD1/APPS... (5 Replies)

8. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users

Hi, in AIX 6.1 what is the limite of gzip and compress ? I mean what can be at most the size of the file to compress ? Thank you. (1 Reply)

9. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

I am using pack/unpack to encyrpt a file. syntax is below #!/bin/sh encrypt=`perl -e 'print unpack "H*","yourpassword"'` - echo $encrypt >/file/to/store/encrypted/password pass=`cat /file/to/store/encrypted/password` decrypt=`perl -e 'print pack "H*",$pass'` ... (2 Replies)

10. UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers

Good afternoon friends. I wanted to make a query, how to compress several files and leave them all in 1, for example flat text files: filename_1.csv filename_2.csv filename_3.csv expected result filename_end.gzip = (filename_1.csv filename_2.csv filename_3.csv) please (2 Replies)