From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 6 09:01:43 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 921841065670 for ; Mon, 6 Dec 2010 09:01:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mail@ozzmosis.com) Received: from outbound.icp-qv1-irony-out2.iinet.net.au (outbound.icp-qv1-irony-out2.iinet.net.au [203.59.1.107]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 012918FC0C for ; Mon, 6 Dec 2010 09:01:42 +0000 (UTC) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AvsEAAIv/Ex8qF++/2dsb2JhbACjMXG8TYVJBI11JoJY X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.59,305,1288540800"; d="scan'208";a="715090463" Received: from unknown (HELO smtp.phoenix) ([124.168.95.190]) by outbound.icp-qv1-irony-out2.iinet.net.au with ESMTP; 06 Dec 2010 16:33:42 +0800 Received: by smtp.phoenix (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 67261171F1; Mon, 6 Dec 2010 19:33:42 +1100 (EST) Date: Mon, 6 Dec 2010 19:33:42 +1100 From: andrew clarke To: Zbigniew Szalbot Message-ID: <20101206083342.GA16636@ozzmosis.com> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Archiving directories / zip format X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 06 Dec 2010 09:01:43 -0000 On Mon 2010-12-06 08:17:17 UTC+0100, Zbigniew Szalbot (zszalbot@gmail.com) wrote: > From time to time I want to archive a quite a few directories to > download them conveniently. I have been using tar to do it, endingin > up with a tar.gz file. But the problem with it is that I do not have a > unix machine at home so if I want to extract something or unpack the > content, there is no easy way to do that. My question basically is if > there is a way to end up with a zip file? As somebody else already mentioned there is zip/unzip in the FreeBSD Ports tree. There's also a BSD port of rar/unrar if you'd like to use the .rar format instead of .zip. > Or are there any windows tools to unzip and/or extract content from > tar.gz files? In Windows I use 7-Zip. It's open source and supports .tar.gz, .tar.xz, .zip, .rar and a number of other archive formats. http://www.7-zip.org/ On the BSD side you can also use p7zip to create .7z archives that can be opened with 7-Zip.