Hi, zcat whatever.dbf.Z > /whereever/whatever.dbf Cheers, ---Phil On 03/01/06, J. Dex <cemail_219@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I am trying to restore a large database from disk and the backups files are > on a UNIX box and have a .Z extension. I want to decompress them to another > directory leaving the input files unchanged. > I've tried a couple different option flags and I am still not getting the > result that I want. > > 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? > > Thanks. > > _________________________________________________________________ > Don't just search. Find. Check out the new MSN Search! > http://search.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200636ave/direct/01/ > > -- > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l > > > -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l