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<h3 class="section">35.3 File Archiving Utilities</h3>
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<p><a name="doc_002dbunzip2"></a>
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— Function File: <b>bunzip2</b> (<var>bzfile, dir</var>)<var><a name="index-bunzip2-2006"></a></var><br>
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<blockquote><p>Unpack the bzip2 archive <var>bzfile</var> to the directory <var>dir</var>. If
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<var>dir</var> is not specified, it defaults to the current directory.
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<strong>See also:</strong> unpack, bzip2, tar, untar, gzip, gunzip, zip, unzip.
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<p><a name="doc_002dgzip"></a>
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— Function File: <var>entries</var> = <b>gzip</b> (<var>files</var>)<var><a name="index-gzip-2007"></a></var><br>
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— Function File: <var>entries</var> = <b>gzip</b> (<var>files, outdir</var>)<var><a name="index-gzip-2008"></a></var><br>
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<blockquote><p>Compress the list of files and/or directories specified in <var>files</var>.
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Each file is compressed separately and a new file with a '.gz' extension
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is created. The original file is not touched. If <var>rootdir</var> is defined
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the compressed versions of the files are placed in this directory.
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<strong>See also:</strong> gunzip, zip, tar.
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<p><a name="doc_002dgunzip"></a>
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— Function File: <b>gunzip</b> (<var>gzfile, dir</var>)<var><a name="index-gunzip-2009"></a></var><br>
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<blockquote><p>Unpack the gzip archive <var>gzfile</var> to the directory <var>dir</var>. If
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<var>dir</var> is not specified, it defaults to the current directory. If
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the <var>gzfile</var> is a directory, all files in the directory will be
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recursively gunzipped.
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<strong>See also:</strong> unpack, bzip2, bunzip2, tar, untar, gzip, gunzip, zip, unzip.
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<p><a name="doc_002dtar"></a>
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— Function File: <var>entries</var> = <b>tar</b> (<var>tarfile, files, root</var>)<var><a name="index-tar-2010"></a></var><br>
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<blockquote><p>Pack <var>files</var> <var>files</var> into the TAR archive <var>tarfile</var>. The
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list of files must be a string or a cell array of strings.
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<p>The optional argument <var>root</var> changes the relative path of <var>files</var>
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from the current directory.
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<p>If an output argument is requested the entries in the archive are
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returned in a cell array.
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<strong>See also:</strong> untar, gzip, gunzip, zip, unzip.
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<p><a name="doc_002duntar"></a>
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— Function File: <b>untar</b> (<var>tarfile, dir</var>)<var><a name="index-untar-2011"></a></var><br>
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<blockquote><p>Unpack the TAR archive <var>tarfile</var> to the directory <var>dir</var>.
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If <var>dir</var> is not specified, it defaults to the current directory.
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<strong>See also:</strong> unpack, bzip2, bunzip2, tar, gzip, gunzip, zip, unzip.
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<p><a name="doc_002dzip"></a>
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— Function File: <var>entries</var> = <b>zip</b> (<var>zipfile, files</var>)<var><a name="index-zip-2012"></a></var><br>
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— Function File: <var>entries</var> = <b>zip</b> (<var>zipfile, files, rootdir</var>)<var><a name="index-zip-2013"></a></var><br>
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<blockquote><p>Compress the list of files and/or directories specified in <var>files</var>
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into the archive <var>zipfiles</var> in the same directory. If <var>rootdir</var>
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is defined the <var>files</var> is located relative to <var>rootdir</var> rather
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than the current directory
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<strong>See also:</strong> unzip,tar.
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<p><a name="doc_002dunzip"></a>
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— Function File: <b>unzip</b> (<var>zipfile, dir</var>)<var><a name="index-unzip-2014"></a></var><br>
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<blockquote><p>Unpack the ZIP archive <var>zipfile</var> to the directory <var>dir</var>.
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If <var>dir</var> is not specified, it defaults to the current directory.
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<strong>See also:</strong> unpack, bzip2, bunzip2, tar, untar, gzip, gunzip, zip.
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<p><a name="doc_002dpack"></a>
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— Function File: <b>pack</b> ()<var><a name="index-pack-2015"></a></var><br>
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<blockquote><p>This function is provided for compatibility with <span class="sc">Matlab</span>, but it
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doesn't actually do anything.
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<p><a name="doc_002dunpack"></a>
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— Function File: <var>files</var> = <b>unpack</b> (<var>file, dir</var>)<var><a name="index-unpack-2016"></a></var><br>
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— Function File: <var>files</var> = <b>unpack</b> (<var>file, dir, filetype</var>)<var><a name="index-unpack-2017"></a></var><br>
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<blockquote><p>Unpack the archive <var>file</var> based on its extension to the directory
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<var>dir</var>. If <var>file</var> is a cellstr, then all files will be
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handled individually. If <var>dir</var> is not specified, it defaults to
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the current directory. It returns a list of <var>files</var>
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unpacked. If a directory is in the file list, then the
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<var>filetype</var> to unpack must also be specified.
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<p>The <var>files</var> includes the entire path to the output files.
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<strong>See also:</strong> bzip2,bunzip2,tar,untar,gzip,gunzip,zip,unzip.
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