I stumbled across a somewhat strange behavior of tar and find no explanation for it: i was testing a DVD for read errors and thought to simply tar the content and direct the output to /dev/null:
This way i expected the system to read the complete content and eventually to report a read error if there is one. To my amazement the command came back immediately without any error. Still i didn't believe it had read anything (save for maybe the directory information) so i directed the output to a real file instead.
This time tar did read the files and subsequently reported the read error i was expecting in one file.
My question is, why didn't it read the files before? Is there something i am missing?
Please help urgently.
I need to setup up some sort of service on a solaris server on a port.
I dont need it do anything special, anything that is sent to this port from an external server should be dump to /dev/null or a flat file..
Can you help urgently? (1 Reply)
Hi, Anyone can help
My solaris 8 system has the following
/dev/null , /dev/tty and /dev/console
All permission are lrwxrwxrwx
Can this be change to a non-world write ??
any impact ?? (12 Replies)
Hello,
I am working on a script to measure the read performance of a busybox environment. The logical choice is to use a command line like:
(time cp * /dev/null) 2> /tmp/howlong.txt
Ah, the rub is cp or /dev/null will only accept a single file at a time.
The result in the txt file is and... (1 Reply)
Hello,
I'm trying to send the error output of a 'cat' operation to /dev/null like this:
cat /dirA/dirB/temp*.log > /dirA/dirB/final.log 2>/dev/null
This works perfectly in a terminal, but not when placed in a script.
If there are no files matching temp*.log the script outputs an error... (7 Replies)
How are these two different? They both prevent output and error from being displayed. I don't see the use of the "&"
echo "hello" > /dev/null 2>&1
echo "hello" > /dev/null 2>1 (3 Replies)
I apologize if this question has been answered else where or is too elementary.
I ran across a KSH script (long unimportant story) that does this:
if ; then
CAS_SRC_LOG="/var/log/cas_src.log 2>&1"
else
CAS_SRC_LOG="/dev/null 2>&1"
fithen does this:
/usr/bin/echo "heartbeat:... (5 Replies)
I'm using an text-to-speech synthesis in a script, and I need to redirect it's output to /dev/null
how can I do that ? And how to redirect the stream to his normal output then (sound card ) ?
thankx (2 Replies)
Friends have the following problem
a search may not find anything which would correct example:
ls -ltr *prueba.txt | nawk '{ print $9 }' > Procesar.dat 2>/dev/null
When he finds nothing gives me the following error
ls: prueba.txt: No such file or directory
because 2> / dev / null... (4 Replies)
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shape_tar
SHAPE_TAR(1) General Commands Manual SHAPE_TAR(1)NAME
shape_tar - shapeTools RMS bundle up subsystem in a tar or shar archive
SYNOPSIS
shape tar[VERSIONS=<version_selection_rule>] [ARCHIVE=<filename>]
shape shar[VERSIONS=<version_selection_rule>] [ARCHIVE=<filename>]
DESCRIPTION
Shape tar and shape shar create a tar or a shar archive containing all source components of the current node in the system tree. All source
components listed in the COMPONENTS macro in the Makefile and the release identification file (VERSIONFILE) are written to the archive.
Components of subsystems are not included in the archive file.
The VERSIONS macro may be set to specify a version selection rule to be active during archive file creation. Default is most_recent,
selecting the most recent version of each component. See shape_stdrul(7) or the $(SHAPELIBPATH)/stdrules for other possible settings. You
may also use self defined version selection rules as VERSIONS.
ARCHIVE is the base name of the file where the output shall be written to. Default is $(SUBSYSTEMNAME). The output file gets the filename
extension .tar (resp. .shar). When ARCHIVE=- is given, data will be written to standard output.
SEE ALSO shape_RMS(1), shape_stdrul(7)FILES
$(SUBSYSTEMNAME).tar $(SUBSYSTEMNAME).shar
20.7.119SHAPE_TAR(1)