From: RiverWind <[email protected]> > 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 was hoping someone could tell me what I am doing wrong. I am > wanting to unzip several NLS books without opening their > directories; I just want to uncompress the directory so it can be > accessed by a DB-player's software.
Have you tried Olav advice? He answered your previous mail with an advice: http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-accessibility-list/2011-January/msg00033.html Although not sure if the issue is that you want to use the terminal or thatyou can't use nautilus. > For instance the following syntaxes didn't yield the desired > results; mind you, these file names take up two lines. > > For the files who's names take up two lines I tried: > > unzip DB*.zip -d /home/riverwind/holder > > Resulting error message "caution: filename not matched:" > > I then tried renaming one of the files to file01. > > unzip file01.zip -d /home/riverwind/holder > > The file decompressed right enough, but there was no directory. > Instead the actual files were decompressed. > > I am not wanting to extract the files, just extract the directory > such that it appears as a single item into which I can get with a > cd command from the terminal or in gnome doing <cr. with the cursor > on the file. I don't know if anything of this nature is even > possible from within gnome. Hmm, this seems a strange feature request. You want unzip to extract the directory structure but without the files inside. Are you sure that other compressor/decompressor allows that? Anyway, one option would be, as you want just to decompress the directory estructure without file, create a zip from a estructure directory without the files. You can also check the -x option on unzip. On the "man unzip" page, there are a example using -x in order to not extract some files with a specific extension in some specific subdirectories. BR === API ([email protected]) _______________________________________________ gnome-accessibility-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-list
