Winzip free??

[accymel]

My winzip did an update & now theres no evaluation free zip now & wants dosh, yet there are many downloads that are zipped & require winzip. Is there another program that unzips or is it pay winzip monopoly

[***Mr D***]

I Use Izarc.

http://www.izarc.org/

[mick]

Or there is WINRAR
http://www.computeractive.co.uk/sear...zone=downloads

[entwisi]

Winrar was shareware IIRC

Theres always good old Java (Ian once again shows theres a really techie way to do something )

[accymel]

Thank you guys very much - great stuff, sorted

[accymel]

Originally Posted by entwisi

Winrar was shareware IIRC

Theres always good old Java (Ian once again shows theres a really techie way to do something )

Java ??????????????

[entwisi]

jar -xvf Blah.zip

, thats how we do it at work on IBM P590 Unix servers

Theres more to life than GUI based tools you know!

why use command line I hear you ask? Well, what happens if you have 100 zip files that all need expanding, they don't even need to be in the same directory.

for file in `find . -name "*.zip`
do
echo "expanding:" $file
jar -xvf $file
done

That will search every subfolder for zip files and expand then all , you can do selective expansion by using regular expressions in the find command or just using grep/egrep

If I was doing it on a live box I'd obviously put some error checking in there and make sure that all backups are safe first!


Yes I know, sad muppet you all mutter!

[accymel]

Errr sad muppet

[entwisi]

You're MEANT to MUTTER it!

[accymel]

Originally Posted by entwisi

You're MEANT to MUTTER it!

oh opppppssss i meant

sad muppet - - is that better