UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hello,

I searched the forums on the keywords in the title I used above, but I did not find the answer:

Is it possible to count records in a .zip file on an AIX machine if i don't have pkunzip installed?

From all the research I'm reading in google and the reading of pkunzip in Unix.com, I'm assuming that if I can't unzip it, I can't count it... ?

(It's a big company, so no, I can't install any freeware to help me...)

Thanks,

Are the zip files created on AIX? If there are no tools/libraries to zip/unzip on AIX, why are the files of interest? They cannot be used there. If they are part of production requirement the tools have to live somewhere on another server. MAybe a PC.

Can you NFS mount a PC share? You can extract those files there on the PC, then read them back on AIX.

You can install cygwin (free) on your local PC, if you have one. cygwin allows you to install any freeware you want. And run it against PC files.

Thanks for your response -

The files are created by another company as a .txt file, zipped through winzip and ftp'd to us. I'm a mediator who just takes the files and ftp's them to the vendor who wants to actually use the file. All other companies (who send us source files) and vendors (who receive the files) have unix servers and this is the only company that doesn't even know what Unix is.

Since this is a large company with tight controls, I would not be allowed to NFS mount a PC share (wouldn't that be wonderful? )

The interest in these files is simply that I usually do a record count and put that along with the file size in notification emails to the vendors which at least helps to serve as some kind of flag when something might go wrong. But because this one company is a Windows shop that only sends files with a .zip extension, and I can't create a connection between the AIX server and my PC, it sounds like I will not be able to do a record count on the file... ?

That is correct. Unless you have zgrep, zcat, or unzip, you are out of luck.