Wamp and tar support

Tom · #1 (**permalink**) 27-08-2008, 05:48 PM

Anyone now how to add tar support to wamp? I'm using shell_exec and tar to extract a .tar file...

Code:

shell_exec("tar -czf $backup_fn -C $directory $foldertocompress");

it works fine online with my hosting providers but I'm not sure how to set it up myself for use with wamp.

Forbairt · #2 (**permalink**) 27-08-2008, 07:08 PM

hmmm ...

get yourself a copy of Native Win32 ports of some GNU utilities if you're going using command line tar onwindows

blacknight · #3 (**permalink**) 27-08-2008, 08:09 PM

Cygwin Information and Installation

Forbairt · #4 (**permalink**) 27-08-2008, 08:21 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by blacknight

Cygwin Information and Installation

If the other works I'd think cygwin is overkill ... (though it does bring some nice features with it)

blacknight · #5 (**permalink**) 27-08-2008, 08:35 PM

Cygwin is the only one I've any personal experience of

Fortunately these days I don't have to worry about this kind of stuff anymore

Forbairt · #6 (**permalink**) 27-08-2008, 08:41 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by blacknight

Cygwin is the only one I've any personal experience of

Fortunately these days I don't have to worry about this kind of stuff anymore

Haven't used Cygwin in a few years to be honest ... but it was a fairly big install then (doesn't matter so much now I guess)

Ah ... god bless Macs

Tom · #7 (**permalink**) 28-08-2008, 10:44 AM

Thanks guys I've tried both but I'm lost as to what to do with either of them. I've installed Cygwin and I get a console when I run it and I've downloaded GNU UnxUtils. What do I do next

Forbairt · #8 (**permalink**) 28-08-2008, 10:59 AM

you'll want to edit your PATH to include a link to where you keep the tar program.

As you're making a shell_exec ... if it doesn't find tar it'll throw an error

gav240z · #9 (**permalink**) 28-08-2008, 11:35 AM

Sorry this isn't exactly on the topic of this thread. However anyone got a good guide to Shell Commands for Unix servers? I would really like to be able to upload zip files to my server via FTP and execute shell commands to unzip rather than upload each file singularly.

Also what do I need to check for in terms of hosting support for this feature?

I know this is a newbie question but I've never known any better.

Forbairt · #10 (**permalink**) 28-08-2008, 11:39 AM

Personally I love vi for quick edits (config files and so on)

you'll want to ask them if you've got shell access with your account.
You'll also want to ask them if you can run

tar gunzip zip unzip chmod chown ...

a lot of hosts will only let you copy files around

You'll find however a lot of the filemanagers will let you upload zip / tar / gz files and will let you decompress them on the server.

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