1. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hello I try to tar a directory but I get this message # tar cvfb my directory prox.tar tar: invalid blocksize "prox.tar". What Im doing wrong. Solaris 5.6 And other question change this command with another version of solaris Thanks in advance (1 Reply)

2. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

OS: SunOS perfs01 5.8 Generic_117350-23 sun4u sparc SUNW,UltraAX-i2 I want to tar a directory, but there are subdirectoires I want to exclude. Does anyone know how to do it? Please help. thanks. (1 Reply)

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi All, I need to tar the entire directory except one directory inside that. I have used the below command tar -cvfX test.tar bin/perl bin/ I need to tar all the directories inside the bindirectory except the perl directory Please help me in solving this :b: Regards, Kalai (4 Replies)

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

HI, if I have a tarfile called pmapdata.tar that contains tar -tvf pmapdata.tar -rw-r--r-- 0/0 21 Oct 15 11:00 2009 /var/tmp/pmapdata/pmap4628.txt -rw-r--r-- 0/0 21 Oct 14 20:00 2009 /var/tmp/pmapdata/pmap23752.txt -rw-r--r-- 0/0 1625 Oct 13 20:00 2009... (1 Reply)

5. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users

I want to backup all the directory tress, including hidden directories, without copying any files. find . -type d gives the perfect list. When I tried tar, it won't work for me because it tars all the files. find . -type d | xargs tar -cvf a.tar So i tried rsync. On my own test box, the... (4 Replies)

6. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

can someone give me a script to tar files that is older than 5 days in a directory that is not something like this: fileArray=($(find -mtime +5 asdfasdf)) tar -cvf asfadfasdfa ${fileArray} as the Unix I'm using has some problem with ($( )), I need another way to tar files in the folder.... (1 Reply)

7. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi Guys, I am able to untar a tar.gz file. But it is again extracting the tar file to further child directory. I even tried the below command to untar it to particular directory. tar -zxvf gme_dly_sls_20120515035335.txt.tar.gz -C /sites/VSTAR/site/live/ftp/GMEUROPE I am getting the below... (4 Replies)

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

i have a 10 directory in my path i have to take a tar of 7 directory without link files and also have to exclude those 3 directory. tar -cvzf /path/file_name.tar.gz directoryname please help!! facing problem in excluding links file (4 Replies)

9. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi i want to tar a directory.. i have tried few command but it is not working . please let me know how to tar and untar a directory below are the error which i am getting tar -zxvf tl11cp01_042414_071123.tar.gz tar: Not a recognized flag: z tar -zxvf... (3 Replies)

10. AIX

Quick question, is it possible to make a Tar of completely directory and placing the tar file in it (will this cause even the tar file to tarred ?) sample: /opt/freeware/bin/tar -cvf - /oracle | gzip > /oracle/backup.tgz will the tar file backup.tgz also include backup.tgz ? i tried... (5 Replies)