Wednesday, August 26, 2009

How to untar, unzip, uncompress Oracle software

1) Uncompress the downloaded patch set file into a new directory and extract the zip files using the following commands:

unzip p4163445_9207_AIX64-5l.zip

2) Uncompress the downloaded patch set file into a new directory and extract the cpio files using the following commands:

cpio -idcv < 9205_aix5164_release.cpio

3) Uncompress the downloaded patch set file into a new directory and extract the tar files using the following commands:

tar xvf 8174_aix32.tar