Re: Restoring database with .Z files

On 1/3/06, J. Dex wrote:
> Typically, I am used to working with gunzip. This is how I do what I want
> in gunzip
> gunzip -dc /d01/restore/control01.ctl.gz > /d02/oradata/dbname/control01.ctl
>
> Does anyone know what the equivalent of doing this is with regular .Z files?

You can still use gzip if you want... it can uncompress .Z files without any difficulty. If for some reason that doesn't work for you, try:

   $ uncompress -c /foo/control01.ctl.Z > /bar/control01.ctl

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