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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Archiving and move files in the same time Post 302226328 by Vi-Curious on Monday 18th of August 2008 05:29:56 PM
Old 08-18-2008
I still don't understand your resistance to using the gtar archive. If you have files in some source directory that you want archived and stored in some destination, you can gtar the files to be archived, put the gtar file in the destination, and delete the files from the source directory. By using gtar, you are compressing the archived files so that they don't take as much disk space.

If, however, you really don't want to bother with the compressed archive file, you can just use mv to move the files where you want them.

The main question, then, is how do you identify which files you need to archive? What is the criteria?
 

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file-roller

file-roller(1)							   User Commands						    file-roller(1)

NAME

       file-roller - create, view, modify, or unpack an archive

SYNOPSIS

       file-roller  [--add]  [--add-to=archive]  [--default-dir=folder]  [--extract]  [--extract-here] [--extract-to=folder] [--force] [gnome-std-
       options]

DESCRIPTION

       The File Roller application enables you to create, view, modify, or unpack an archive. An archive is a file that acts as  a  container  for
       other files. An archive can contain many files, folders, and subfolders, usually in compressed form.

OPTIONS

       The following options are supported:

       -d, --add		       Ask for the name of the archive, then add the files, then quit the application.

       -a, --add-to=archive	       Add files to the specified archive, then quit the application.

       --default-dir=folder	       Specify the default folder for the --add and --extract options.

       -f, --extract		       Ask for the name of the destination folder, then extract the files, then quit the application.

       -h, --extract-here	       Extract archives using the archive name as destination folder and quit the program.

       -e, --extract-to=folder	       Extract archives to the specified folder, then quit the application.

       --force			       Create the destination folder without asking for confirmation.

       gnome-std-options	       Standard  options available for use with most GNOME applications.  See gnome-std-options(5) for more infor-
				       mation.

EXAMPLES

       Example 1: Unpacking an Archive

       example% file-roller --extract archive

EXIT STATUS

       The following exit values are returned:

       0	Application exited successfully

       >0	Application exited with failure

FILES

       The following files are used by this application:

       /usr/bin/file-roller    Executable for File Roller application.

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability		     |SUNW			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Interface stability	     |Volatile			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       File Roller Manual

       ar(1), tar(1), unzip(1), zip(1), attributes(5), gnome-std-options(5)

NOTES

       Written by Laszlo Kovacs, Sun Microsystems Inc., 2003, 2004, 2007.

SunOS 5.11							    08 Nov 2007 						    file-roller(1)
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