How to extract .depot file on HPUX?

Question

How can I extract extract a .depot file on HPUX?

The .depot file is a tarred dir stucture, with some of the files gzipped under the same name as original.

Note that my environment is quite limited - I can't have root, I don't have swinstall.

http://forums13.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?admit=109447627+1259826031876+28353475&threadId=1143807

At best, the solution should work on Linux too.

I have tried to untar and gunzip -f -r -d -v --suffix= . But the problem is that the gzipped files have no suffix, so in the end, gzip deletes them.

Answer 1

It was relatively easy:

for f in `find -type f` ; do
    mv $f $f.gz
    gunzip $f.gz
done