hi everyone
i have a tar file which was in AIX box. its 300mb.
i cant untar in windowsxp home. I just get an empty folder with no files when i extract. i dont get any bad header or any such error.
i am using IZARC which is a freeware. Not sure if i should try winzip or winrar.
any help (2 Replies)
I received a tar file of a directory with 50,000 files in it. Is it possible to extract the files in the tar file without first creating the directory?
ie. Doing tar -xvf filename.tar extracts as follows:
x directory/file1.txt
x directory/file2.txt
.
.
.
I would like to avoid... (4 Replies)
Hi
I have done a search for this but couldn't find much on it.
I am creating a tar file with the command below
tar cvf /export/home/user/backup/*Will this is being created I have a job spooling to 5 texts files in the following directory /export/home/user/backup/STATS/
The tar files... (1 Reply)
I am trying to archive directories based on their last modified date. When I tar and compress the directory it makes copies of whats inside, I don't know how to fix this.
Here is my code.
#!/bin/bash
#AUTODRUNDISABLE
VERSION="0.2"
cd /desired/directory/to/archive
find . -type d -newermt... (3 Replies)
I would like to confirm my file.tar is been tar-ed correctly before I remove them. But I have very limited disc space to untar it.
Can I just do the listing instead of actual extract it? Can I say confirm folder integrity if the listing is sucessful without problem?
tar tvf file1.tar
... (1 Reply)
how can i move "dataName".sql.gz into a folder called 'database' and then move "$fileName".tar.gz * .htaccess into a folder called 'www' with the entire gzipped file being "$fileName".tar.gz? Is this doable or overly complex.
so
mydemo--2015-03-23-1500.tar.gz
> database
-... (5 Replies)
#cat a
BAC064DAL
BAC063DAL
BAC056PHX
BAC066DAL
BAC062PHX
BAC062DAL
BAC060DAL
BAC058PHX
BAC054PHX
BAC051PHX
# for i in `cat a`
> do
> tar xvf $a/$a*.tar*
> done
tar: /*.tar*: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
tar: /*.tar*: Cannot... (3 Replies)
i extract it through script, is there any way to script or automate to tar extract a tarfiles in multiple directories at once?
Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
for dir in `ls -d /tarfiles/*/ | sed 's/.$//'`
do
rm -f $dir/*.tar
mv -f... (1 Reply)
Hi all. I'm hitting a problem creating a tar archive in one directory from files located in a different directory. It fails when I replace the absolute paths with variables in the script but works if I just run tar on the cmdln. E.g.
#!/bin/ksh
BASE=$PWD
STAGE=$BASE/stage
LOG=$BASE/log... (4 Replies)