After reading "man zip", I am still not able to uncompress a load
of NLS books in the specific way required for the task I am working
on.
I'm not familiar with the NLS zip structure which makes it hard
to determine what you are trying to do. The good news is that
there's almost positively a straight-forward way to do what you
want...I just need to understand what that is ::smile::
I just want to uncompress the directory so it can be accessed
by a DB-player's software.
There are a couple possibilities:
1) an NLS file is a zip-file containing a bunch of files that are
in subdirectories within the zip-file.
In this case, you may want to do any of the following:
1a) extract just the directory structure without extracting the files
1b) extract the files into a flat structure without the hierarchy
stored in the zip file, or
1c) most likely (based on what I *think* you're describing) there
are multiple directories stored in the zip-file and you'd like to
extract just one of them. To do this, you can specify which
files to extract on the command-line (assuming the zip-file
contains a subdirectory structure of
"contained_folder/subfolder/" with the things inside that you want):
unzip source.zip contained_folder/subfolder/*
which will only extract the files given on the command-line, not
*all* the files in the zip-file.
2) an NLS file is a zip-file containing a bunch of files that
have no hierarchy and you would like to put them in a subdirctory
when you uncompress them so that they don't litter your current
working-directory with the files.
unzip file01.zip -d /home/riverwind/holder
The file decompressed right enough, but there was no directory.
Instead the actual files were decompressed.
This is what I would expect from this command and it addresses #2
above. Your command says "unzip the contents of file01.zip and
put any contained files/directories/hierarchy in
/home/riverwind/holder (creating that folder if needed)".
It might help to include a portion of the output of
unzip -t file01.zip
You can pipe that into a file to copy/paste/attach if you want
unzip -t file01.zip > file01_contents.txt
That way we can get a clearer understanding of the structure
inside the zip-file and craft a better solution.
-tim
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