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<h3 class="section">36.3 File Archiving Utilities</h3>
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— Function File:  <b>bunzip2</b> (<var>bzfile</var>)<var><a name="index-bunzip2-3206"></a></var><br>
— Function File:  <b>bunzip2</b> (<var>bzfile, dir</var>)<var><a name="index-bunzip2-3207"></a></var><br>
<blockquote><p>Unpack the bzip2 archive <var>bzfile</var> to the directory <var>dir</var>.  If
<var>dir</var> is not specified, it defaults to the current directory. 
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— Function File: <var>entries</var> = <b>gzip</b> (<var>files</var>)<var><a name="index-gzip-3208"></a></var><br>
— Function File: <var>entries</var> = <b>gzip</b> (<var>files, outdir</var>)<var><a name="index-gzip-3209"></a></var><br>
<blockquote><p>Compress the list of files and/or directories specified in <var>files</var>. 
Each file is compressed separately and a new file with a '.gz' extension
is created.  The original files are not modified.  Existing compressed
files are silently overwritten.  If <var>outdir</var> is defined the compressed
files are placed in this directory. 
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— Function File:  <b>gunzip</b> (<var>gzfile, dir</var>)<var><a name="index-gunzip-3210"></a></var><br>
<blockquote><p>Unpack the gzip archive <var>gzfile</var> to the directory <var>dir</var>.  If
<var>dir</var> is not specified, it defaults to the current directory.  If
<var>gzfile</var> is a directory, all gzfiles in the directory will be
recursively gunzipped. 
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— Function File: <var>entries</var> = <b>tar</b> (<var>tarfile, files</var>)<var><a name="index-tar-3211"></a></var><br>
— Function File: <var>entries</var> = <b>tar</b> (<var>tarfile, files, root</var>)<var><a name="index-tar-3212"></a></var><br>
<blockquote><p>Pack <var>files</var> <var>files</var> into the TAR archive <var>tarfile</var>.  The
list of files must be a string or a cell array of strings.
        <p>The optional argument <var>root</var> changes the relative path of <var>files</var>
from the current directory.
        <p>If an output argument is requested the entries in the archive are
returned in a cell array. 
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— Function File:  <b>untar</b> (<var>tarfile</var>)<var><a name="index-untar-3213"></a></var><br>
— Function File:  <b>untar</b> (<var>tarfile, dir</var>)<var><a name="index-untar-3214"></a></var><br>
<blockquote><p>Unpack the TAR archive <var>tarfile</var> to the directory <var>dir</var>. 
If <var>dir</var> is not specified, it defaults to the current directory. 
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— Function File: <var>entries</var> = <b>zip</b> (<var>zipfile, files</var>)<var><a name="index-zip-3215"></a></var><br>
— Function File: <var>entries</var> = <b>zip</b> (<var>zipfile, files, rootdir</var>)<var><a name="index-zip-3216"></a></var><br>
<blockquote><p>Compress the list of files and/or directories specified in <var>files</var>
into the archive <var>zipfile</var> in the same directory.  If <var>rootdir</var>
is defined the <var>files</var> are located relative to <var>rootdir</var> rather
than the current directory. 
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— Function File:  <b>unzip</b> (<var>zipfile</var>)<var><a name="index-unzip-3217"></a></var><br>
— Function File:  <b>unzip</b> (<var>zipfile, dir</var>)<var><a name="index-unzip-3218"></a></var><br>
<blockquote><p>Unpack the ZIP archive <var>zipfile</var> to the directory <var>dir</var>. 
If <var>dir</var> is not specified, it defaults to the current directory. 
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— Function File: <var>files</var> = <b>unpack</b> (<var>file</var>)<var><a name="index-unpack-3219"></a></var><br>
— Function File: <var>files</var> = <b>unpack</b> (<var>file, dir</var>)<var><a name="index-unpack-3220"></a></var><br>
— Function File: <var>files</var> = <b>unpack</b> (<var>file, dir, filetype</var>)<var><a name="index-unpack-3221"></a></var><br>
<blockquote><p>Unpack the archive <var>file</var> based on its extension to the directory
<var>dir</var>.  If <var>file</var> is a list of strings, then each file is
unpacked individually.  If <var>dir</var> is not specified, it defaults to
the current directory.  If a directory is in the file list, then the
<var>filetype</var> must also be specified.
        <p>The optional return value is a list of <var>files</var> unpacked. 
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— Function File: <var>entries</var> = <b>bzip2</b> (<var>files</var>)<var><a name="index-bzip2-3222"></a></var><br>
— Function File: <var>entries</var> = <b>bzip2</b> (<var>files, outdir</var>)<var><a name="index-bzip2-3223"></a></var><br>
<blockquote><p>Compress the list of files specified in <var>files</var>. 
Each file is compressed separately and a new file with a '.bz2' extension
is created.  The original files are not modified.  Existing compressed files
are silently overwritten.  If <var>outdir</var> is defined the compressed
files are placed in this directory. 
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