checkdir: cannot create extraction directory

[bh77]

I am trying to unzip a file using the following command from a bash script under cygwin and receive the following error - which looks as though it may be permissions related. Does anyone have any idea what may be causing it ?

code :
# if the target directory does not exist, create it.
if [ ! -d ${TARGET_DIR} ]
then
  echo making target dir
  mkdir ${TARGET_DIR}
fi
unzip -u ${SRC_DIR} "**/*.jar" -d ${TARGET_DIR}

error:
checkdir:  cannot create extraction directory /cygdrive/c/target

any ideas ?

[bh77]

sorry that should read

# if the target directory does not exist, create it.
if [ ! -d ${TARGET_DIR} ]
then
  echo making target dir
  mkdir ${TARGET_DIR}
fi
unzip -u ${SRC_ZIP} "**/*.jar" -d ${TARGET_DIR}

[Igor Peshansky]

On Tue, 20 Jun 2006, bh77 wrote:

> I am trying to unzip a file using the following command from a bash script
> under cygwin and receive the following error - which looks as though it may
> be permissions related. Does anyone have any idea what may be causing it ?
>
> code :
> # if the target directory does not exist, create it.
> if [ ! -d ${TARGET_DIR} ]
> then
>   echo making target dir
>   mkdir ${TARGET_DIR}
> fi
> unzip -u ${SRC_DIR} "**/*.jar" -d ${TARGET_DIR}
>
> error:
> checkdir:  cannot create extraction directory /cygdrive/c/target
> any ideas ?

Yes: use quotes around variable references.  The above is what you can get
when your directory names contain spaces.
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[bh77]

e.g unzip -u "${SRC_ZIP}"  "**/*.jar" -d "${TARGET_DIR}"
there are no spaces in the directory structure - there are however the following characters:
 -._ (dash, fullstop and underscore)

would any of these have the same effect ?

[Larry Hall (Cygwin)]

bh77 wrote:

> I am trying to unzip a file using the following command from a bash script
> under cygwin and receive the following error - which looks as though it may
> be permissions related. Does anyone have any idea what may be causing it ?
>
> code :
> # if the target directory does not exist, create it.
> if [ ! -d ${TARGET_DIR} ]
> then
>   echo making target dir
>   mkdir ${TARGET_DIR}
> fi
> unzip -u ${SRC_DIR} "**/*.jar" -d ${TARGET_DIR}
>
> error:
> checkdir:  cannot create extraction directory /cygdrive/c/target
>
> any ideas ?

You're not using the Cygwin version of unzip?  What does 'cygcheck unzip' say?


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[bh77]

$> cygcheck unzip
Found: C:\cygwin\bin\unzip.exe
C:/cygwin/bin/unzip.exe
  C:\cygwin\bin\cygwin1.dll
    C:\WINDOWS\system32\ADVAPI32.DLL
      C:\WINDOWS\system32\ntdll.dll
      C:\WINDOWS\system32\KERNEL32.dll
      C:\WINDOWS\system32\RPCRT4.dll

[Larry Hall (Cygwin)]

bh77 wrote:
> $> cygcheck unzip
> Found: C:\cygwin\bin\unzip.exe
> C:/cygwin/bin/unzip.exe
>   C:\cygwin\bin\cygwin1.dll
>     C:\WINDOWS\system32\ADVAPI32.DLL
>       C:\WINDOWS\system32\ntdll.dll
>       C:\WINDOWS\system32\KERNEL32.dll
>       C:\WINDOWS\system32\RPCRT4.dll


OK then.  Well, I guess it's back to the beginning on this one:

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It may be a permissions problem so it's worth checking that out
if you haven't already too.  Don't forget about 'getfacl' to find
the the ACL permissions.

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