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Old 03-13-2008
Compressing a Directory in UNIX ???
Hi All,

I am new to UNIX. I have a small problem to be solved.

I have directory where all the log files/list files generated by SAS Program.

Q1) Can we compress the folder(Directory) as Windows zipping.

Q2) If yes what is the command to be used to achieve the probelm.

Q3) If we do so, in future if I uncompress the folder/directory will there be any chance of files being currepted.

To my understanding we can only compress the files in a folder/directory using gzip -r.

Please suggest in this regard.

Thanks in advance.


Regards
Manas
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Old 03-13-2008
Quote:
Originally Posted by manas6
Q1) Can we compress the folder(Directory) as Windows zipping.
Yes
Quote:
Originally Posted by manas6
Q2) If yes what is the command to be used to achieve the probelm.
zip
man zip for more details
Quote:
Originally Posted by manas6
Q3) If we do so, in future if I uncompress the folder/directory will there be any chance of files being currepted.
None that I can think of
# 3  
Old 03-13-2008
Hi

When I am trying to use zip it is giving the 'zip error: Nothing to do! (thrinadh.zip)'.

Please suggest
# 4  
Old 03-13-2008
i think you forgot to mention the directory that you want to compress. did you try:
Code:
zip filename.zip

instead of
Code:
zip filename.zip /dir/to/zip/

# 5  
Old 03-13-2008
Q1) Can we compress the folder(Directory) as Windows zipping.

Why would you want to do so?

Is you plateform Win.. or unix?
The only case I see people wanting that, are people using enterprise guide, in which case they can go ahead since it lies on a samba share... is it your case?
 
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