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Tar Extract from more than one floopy disk

Hi,

I am beginer to unix. i have backup in 7 floppies.(each having same file name 'xxx.tar.Z'). I need to restore all in one directory. Please help me.!!!

anyone here to help.....!!

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Hi,

I am beginer to unix. i have backup in 7 floppies.(each having same file name 'xxx.tar.Z'). I need to restore all in one directory. Please help me.!!!

anyone here to help.....!!
Is it a one file situated on 7 floppies? that you can combine into one by
cat 1.tar.gz 2.tar.gz ... 7.tar.gz > all.tar.gz and then untar and ungzip it.


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resolved...

thnx.. i used cat and zcat to fix the issue.
egs.

% cat xaa xab xac ... > new_out_file.tar.Z
% zcat new_out_file.tar.Z | tar xvvf -

I hope your solution too will work... thanx again..
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