How do you unzip a WinZip file on Solaris?

**dba_admin** · 06-04-2001, 05:04 PM

How do you unzip a WinZip file on Solaris?

I tried tar -xvf, gzip -d and gunzip. None of them worked!

**sambavan** · 06-04-2001, 05:18 PM

I suppose tar -zxvf filename would work. BTW what is your file extension for the ziped file? According to man documentation gunzip should work fine.

Sam

**dba_admin** · 06-04-2001, 05:23 PM

tgmk% ls
Example.zip
tgmk% gunzip Example.zip
gunzip: Example.zip: unknown suffix -- ignored
tgmk% tar -xvf Example.zip
tar: directory checksum error
tgmk% tar -zxvf Example.zip
tar: z: unknown option
Usage: tar {txruc}[vfbFXhiBEelmopwnq[0-7]] [-k size] [tapefile] [blocksize] [exclude-file] [-I include-file] f
iles ...

**marist89** · 06-04-2001, 05:29 PM

/usr/bin/unzip example.zip

**dba_admin** · 06-04-2001, 06:26 PM

Thank you!

**puneet** · 06-04-2001, 07:23 PM

HI

I am not sure but I guess uncompress does work with windows zipped files on UNIX

sysntax is uncompress filename

regards

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