AFAIU zip (*.zip) and gzip (*.gz) are different algorithms. Does
unzip.exe handle gzip format?

If the files are infact zipped (*.zip) then you could also use the
'arc/zip' addon to process them.

On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 3:15 PM, Eric Iverson <[email protected]> wrote:
> The windows J distribution includes unzip.exe in ~system/tools. Is this not
> adequate and easy to apply with one of the task utilities (which in unix
> wrap 2!:0 and in windows wrap an equivalent)?
>
> On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 10:02 PM, Ric Sherlock <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Here is some J code that should give you the list of LOG files in the
>> directory tree.
>>   ; (<empty'') -.~ (1 dir ,&'/LOG') each dirpath 'jsource'
>>
>> Next step to unzip. On Windows I'd imagine that 7z should handle gzip OK.
>>
>> On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 2:37 PM, Skip Cave <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > I was assuming I would do the job in J, but a comparison between the J
>> > approach and a shell script or other scheme, would be enlightening. My
>> > files and the 6.02 J interpreter are on a Win7 64-bit machine with 4 gig
>> of
>> > ram.
>> >
>> > Skip
>> >
>> > On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 8:05 PM, Eric Iverson <[email protected]
>> >wrote:
>> >
>> >> If done in J it would be done essentially identically on all platforms.
>> The
>> >> only little bit of host dependency would be calling unzip and I'm sure
>> >> forum members could help make that easy.
>> >>
>> >> On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 9:01 PM, Joey K Tuttle <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> > On 2011/11/03 17:50 , Skip Cave wrote:
>> >> > > I have several thousand files which are distributed into about a
>> >> thousand
>> >> > > folders. All of the folders are contained in one directory on my
>> >> machine.
>> >> > > Each of the thousand folders contains 1-10 files. All of the files
>> in
>> >> > each
>> >> > > folder have been compressed using the gzip program. I need to
>> sequence
>> >> > > through all of the folders, find the file in each folder labeled
>> "LOG"
>> >> > > (there will be only one in each folder, with no extension), and
>> expand
>> >> > it.
>> >> > > I then need to examine the expanded LOG file (ASCII text file) and
>> >> search
>> >> > > the LOG file for a specific unique text string that will be the
>> same in
>> >> > all
>> >> > > the LOG files. I need to extract the string of a few hundred
>> characters
>> >> > > that *follows* the initial matched string in the LOG file. That
>> second
>> >> > > string will be terminated by another (different&  third) unique text
>> >> > string
>> >> > > which will also be the same in all LOG files. I want to place all of
>> >> the
>> >> > > extracted strings into a single boxed array using a single J
>> function.
>> >> > >
>> >> > > How hard is it to do this in J? Can someone give me a start in the
>> >> right
>> >> > > direction, perhaps with some example code? I currently only have J
>> 6.02
>> >> > on
>> >> > > my machine.
>> >> > >
>> >> > What environment? If Linux or OSX, it's my kind of thing (seems quite
>> >> > reasonable, and I could have a go at providing example code) - but I
>> >> > have no knowledge of how to approach it in Windows....
>> >> >
>> >> > - joey
>> >> >
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