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gzip question

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  • 15-05-2006 1:48pm
    #1
    akari no ryu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 169 ✭✭


    I've read the man pages, googled for tutorials but I still don't know the answer.

    I have a script which is responsible for downloading a series of zip files.
    They all have a file heirarchy
    /a/b/c/d/e/f/<target>
    so if I try to extract them within my script, I keep getting
    /targetUnzipPath/a/b/c/d/e/f/file

    Is there any way to get gzip to disregard the heirarchy and decompress everything into the folder that it's currently in?


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    #2
    daymobrew
    Registered Users Posts: 6,508 ✭✭✭daymobrew


    I highly doubt that it is possible using gzip alone.

    You can probably get everything into the current folder using find: 
    #Find all files and mv them into the current directory
find targetUnzipPath -type f -exec mv "{}" . ";"


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    #3
    akari no ryu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 169 ✭✭akari no ryu


    Between myself and our tech, we came to the conclusion you were probably right, daymobrew. We're gonna install the gzip libraries for PHP and use them. Solves all our problems, really.


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