Is it possible to redirect the output from 'tar xvf' to another directory?
The taped tar image is extracting to my / dircetory - even though i'm running the command from /backups.
The contents list of the tape shows files created from /livebackups/...
Thanks
Richard (7 Replies)
anyone know if it is possable to extract a subdirectory in a tar file.
IE
tarfile contains
parent dir
-sub dir A
-sub dir B
I want to extract sub dir B. (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 created a tar file of a directory dir1 from /tmp in the following way
$pwd
/tmp
$tar -cvf dir1.tar dir1 (dir1 will have say file1)
Now i want to extract it in the directory /tmp/dir2 so that the directory dir1 is also created and extracted... (1 Reply)
Hi,
I have tar filw which has multiple directories which contain files.
When i extract using tar -xf the directory structure also get extracted.
I require only files and not directory structures as there will be overhead of moving the files again.
So i searched here and got a solution but... (4 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)
Hi,
I need to extract a single file from a tar file to another directory.
So far I have this:
This one extract a single file to same directory:
tar -xvf filename.tar ./file.txt
I tried this but its not working
tar -xvf filename.tar /home/dir ./file.txt
or this: (6 Replies)
HI All
Please suggest how to untar archive on remote sever. When im trying use regular command without any flags everything is working fine:
$( ssh <user>@<server> -n '. ~/.profile >/dev/null 2>&1 ; cd /path_1 ; copiedIVR_name=`ls -tr | tail -1` ; tar xvf $copiedIVR_name ' )
but when im... (9 Replies)
I'm trying to write a Unix script that will go to a specific directory (/tmp/Sanbox/logs) and tar.gz all the log files in that directory and delete the original files that are older than 2 days. So far I have this but it doesn't work. Any help would be appreciated.
#!/bin/bash
... (7 Replies)
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file-roller
file-roller(1) General Commands Manual file-roller(1)NAME
file-roller - archive manager for GNOME
SYNOPSIS
file-roller [OPTIONS...] [FILE...]
DESCRIPTION
File Roller is a graphical interface to archiving utilities such as tar and zip.
It supports most common operations such as creating, modifing and extracting files from an archive. You can also view the contents of an
archive and open files contained in the archive.
OPTIONS -a, --add-to=ARCHIVE
Add files to the specified archive and quit the program
-d, --add FILE
Add files asking the name of the archive and quit the program
-e, --extract-to=FOLDER
Extract archives to the specified folder and quit the program
-f, --extract
Extract archives asking the destination folder and quit the program
-h, --extract-here
Extract archives using the archive name as destination folder and quit the program
--default-dir=FOLDER
Default folder to use for the '--add' and '--extract' commands
--force
Create destination folder without asking confirmation
This program also accepts the standard GNOME and GTK options.
AUTHORS
file-roller is written by Paolo Bacchilega <paolo.bacch@tin.it>.
This manual page was written by Sven Arvidsson <sa@whiz.se>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others).
SEE ALSO gtk-options(7), gnome-options(7)
The online documentation available through the program's Help menu.
GNOME 2007-09-27 file-roller(1)