P0251WLADC.svm_wl1 > /svm_wl1/billing/data/server/archive/ALLEVT
tar cvf /svm_wl1/billing/data/server/archive/ALLEVT/FEB2006 /svm_wl1/billing/data/server/archive/ALLEVT/FEB2006.tar
is it correct?will this create "FEB2006.tar" file releasing some space to system?
No, you need to reverse the arguments to tar. Also, if your intention
is to save disk space, then tar by itself will do no good, as it does no
compression. Use the `j' or `z' flags to tar to compress with bzip2 or
gzip.
Hi,
There are 700 .pdf files in a certain directory on the server and I need to TAR them first and then compress them using GZIP to free up the space. The combined size of the .pdf files is 3gb. However, there is only 1gb of free space on the server. So as you can see when I try to TAR these... (3 Replies)
Hi,
I would like to have a combined gzip and tar that will compress and create multiple output tar.gz files. I want to have multiple files output because i cannot create an archive because there is no more space on my harddisk. I cannot transfer it locally because of slow connection. I want to... (3 Replies)
i'd like to have an alias (or something similar) where i can type a command like "archive" and a filename and have it tar and gzip the file, so...
$ archive filename
results in filename.tar.gz...do i have to write a script to do this? (4 Replies)
Hi All
I need guidance on this requirement .
We have a directory structure which has data of approx 100 GB
We need to tar the structure then zip it and create different files of not more than 10 GB
A separate tar file then a .gz should not be created , on the fly a script is needed... (7 Replies)
Hi Guys,
I have a few files. i want to tar these files and zip it using gzip it.
-rw-r----- 1 magesh magesh 12940369 Jul 27 09:26 dcx_imds_c.asc
-rw-r----- 1 magesh magesh 1221391 Jul 27 09:27 dcx_imds_h.asc
-rw-r----- 1 magesh magesh 1105673 Jul 27 09:27... (6 Replies)
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Looking for a way to extract individual compressed files from a compressed tarball WITHOUT tar -zxvf and then recompressing. Basically we need to be able to chunk out an individual compressed file while it still remains... (6 Replies)
Hi Guys,
I am using RHEL5 and Solaris 9 & 10.
I want to tar and gzip my files then remove them after a successful tar command...
Lets say I have files with extension .arc then I want to tar and gzip these files.
After successful tar command I want to remove all these files (i.e .arc).
... (3 Replies)
Hi,
I am trying to :-
(1.) Tar the file and then
(2.) Gzip it !
Tar command :-
tar -cvf BLUESTAR_Archive.log_$(date +%y_%m_%d_%H_%M).tar /app/local/XXX/XXX/XXX/logs
Gzip command :-
Gzip /app/local/XXX/XXX/XXX/logs/BLUESTAR_Archive.log_$(date +%y_%m_%d_%H_%M).tar
... (9 Replies)