Unzip on QSHELL server using Jar

I recently had to use iSeries QSHELL and discovered that it typically doesn’t have zip/unzip support by default. A System Administrator needs to install a program to facilitate the basic task. Luckily, as the server was being used to run an Apache/Tomcat/JavaEE site, Java was installed on the server, so I could unzip using JAR.

Jar –xvf filename.zip

More Jar examples.

ISeries QSHELL cheat sheet:

http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/iseries/v5r4/index.jsp?topic=%2Frzahz%2Ftututil.htm
http://www.tylogix.com/Articles/Exploring_iSeries_QSHELL.htm

Other basic POSIX commands work as expected, like

cp -r * /home/useraccount/folder