1. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

I don't know how to create a disk-spanning archive using UNIX. Could someone please help me out? (1 Reply)

2. Shell Programming and Scripting

Can we have a shell script for this sort of conversion? There are some web-based tools which display the contents of tar.Z format. I am trying to convert zip files to that Thanks in advance (2 Replies)

3. UNIX Desktop Questions & Answers

i want know how to compress and uncompress file using unix, compress uncompress,zip,unzip,rar,unrar,how its work and more about this.:confused: (1 Reply)

4. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Huloo, whats diff between TAR+zip+FTP and TAR+FTP,can't we simpply FTP a file without Zipping it? TAR is simply for Archiving ,then why do we need to Zip it? :( (1 Reply)

5. UNIX Desktop Questions & Answers

Hi, I want to backup my SQL database using tar zip but I'm paranoid that I will archive it. What I mean is I want the files to stay where they are but make a zipped copy of the files as well, I don't want to delete the originals. Is the command? tar -cvzf databasename.tar.gz... (1 Reply)

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

Does anyone know how to get hash marks (or some other visual indicator) to print to the screen during tar or zip commands run from within a Cshell on Sun or Linux? Currently the user receives no indication that a command is running and cannot be sure that a problem has not occurred. I can find... (3 Replies)

7. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users

Hi guys, I have an issue processing a large amount of files. I have around 5 million files (some of them are actually directories) in a server. I am unable to find out the exact number of files since it's taking "forever" to finish (See this thread for more on the issue). Anyway, now I... (6 Replies)

8. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi, I need a help with zip and tar. I have no done any scripts before with zip command. What I need to achieve is list files in a directory with a specific name (ID_DATE format- given examples) and then zip (or gunzip which I need to use, I am not sure) with timestamp on the file name and then... (15 Replies)

9. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi, Need to extract a file containing multiple .txt files without using tar/unzip as they are not available (1 Reply)

10. UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers

Hi Folks - Happy Friday and I hope you all are well! What's the easiest way to tar.gz / zip all direct children directories in a folder that have the string _EBASE (suffix)? Thank you! (6 Replies)