perl_99_monk has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I am trying to move a bunch of files to unix environment to windows. Every week I have enhancements coming so want to move them as a package to the unix box. Between two unix servers I am able to use tar and untar and get the work done. Is there anything similar utility that I can use whicle moving the files from windows based server to unix server? I tried using ftp but moving one file at a time did not seem like a good idea... Is there a way I can read a file consisting of file names on windows env and giz them or tar them and move to unix? Thanks in advance..

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Re: Moving files
by ikegami (Patriarch) on Sep 26, 2005 at 14:45 UTC

    unix's zip is compatible with "PkZip for the Command Line" (not free), with "WinZip Command Line Support Add-On" (free with WinZip 9.0 license), with "7-Zip Command Line Version" (free), and with any other tool that supports .zip.

    Of course, there are ports of tar (Cygwin and ???), and a Windows version of gzip.

Re: Moving files
by ZlR (Chaplain) on Sep 26, 2005 at 15:53 UTC
Re: Moving files
by gargle (Chaplain) on Sep 26, 2005 at 14:38 UTC

    Hi,

    What does your question have to do with perl?

    Anyway, cygwin? It even comes with perl... You'll end up with all the familiar unix utilities.

    --
    if ( 1 ) { $postman->ring() for (1..2); }
Re: Moving files
by jcoxen (Deacon) on Sep 26, 2005 at 16:27 UTC