Script or unity to unzip compressed files on remote server

[Yangtze]

It would be faster to upload a compressed files to remote server. Is there any script or unity available to unzip compressed files on remote server? I use WS_FTP. My hosting company's control panel does not provide this option. It is a Linux/Unix shared hosting.

[Frank_Rizzo]

If you have shell access or can create cron jobs then you can run

unzip or gunzip depending what is installed.

I regularily upload zip files and use a cronjob to check for the existance of a file and unzip it.

#######################
# 
# unzip_uploads
cd /home/myuploads
if test -f ZIP_UPLOADED_FLAG
 then
 rm ZIP_UPLOADED_FLAG
 if test -f ZIPPEDFILE.ZIP
  then
  unzip -o ZIPPEDFILE.ZIP -d /home/myuploads
  cp ZIPPEDFILE.ZIP old/`date +%d%m%y`.zip
 fi
fi

cronjob is set to run that file every 10 minutes.

First it checks for the existence of a ZIP_UPLOADED_FLAG file. This is just a dummy file and is FTP'd after the zip file. The reason for doing this is so that the script will only run after the zip file has been uploaded 100%.

Next, if the zipfile exists it is unzipped and overwrites existing files.

Lastly the zip file is copied to an archive dir and the name changed to the datestamp.

[Yangtze]

Hi Frank_Rizzo,

Sorry, my hosting company does not support shell access.

[kwngian]

Use the File Manager in Cpanel and the extract your zip files from there.