1. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi, I am trying to write to a dat tape, using HP UX 10.20 tar: cannot open /dev/dat not mounted ? ioscan ? if so, then where ? suggestions ? thanks simon (6 Replies)

2. HP-UX

I made tar file having file names more character( up to 50). When i extract file in Linux it extracts fine.. but in HPUX all file name which are more than 24 are trimed to 24 characters. i m using "tar -xvf xx.tar" i read some O and N option for New posix and Old but didnt got. :confused: ... (2 Replies)

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

frnds, I compressed some files on the basic of $date var. $date contains todays date in some specific format.. also my files are in different directories... now, I m doing. tar -cvf archive.tar /root/abc/*$date* /root/wxv/123/*$date* /var/*$date* this creates archive.tar for me.. ... (4 Replies)

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, I make a tar archive: tar -czvf /path_to/cucu.tar.gz /path/dir_to_archive/ In the archive the /path/dir_to_archive/ is maintained for every file. I need that the archive to be made without the /path/dir_to_archive/ to contain only the files in /path/dir_to_archive/. Thanks,... (4 Replies)

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

I am trying to implement the below command in my shell script su - $PROCESS -c `tar -tvf $file|tee -a $LOG/$file.log` The idea is to get the tar output on the screen and at the same time it should put the output in the log file. Problem is: 1) I donot get the output on the screen. 2)... (3 Replies)

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi all, I have couple of files I need to tar and put in some client server could some body help me the basic understanding of tarring files please It would be a great help. regards Anwar (4 Replies)

7. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users

Hi, I want to tar files and zip them in order to clean up space in directory. I have files like /path/file1 /path file2. What I am trying to do is: Option 1: tar -cvf /path/file1 /path file2 | gzip > test.tar.gz I got the file created. But while trying to extract the Tar and zipped file, I... (1 Reply)

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

I have written a below script to untar the tar files from /tmp/tarfiles/ directory. # cat /tmp/tarfiles/script.sh #!/bin/sh cd /tmp/tarfiles/ TFL="tar_files_list.txt" TCF="tar_completed_list.txt" ls -l *.tar | awk '{print $9}' > $TFL for i in `cat $TFL` do if then for j in... (2 Replies)

9. Shell Programming and Scripting

In AIX 5.3, I have these directories: /lms /lms/w_standard /lms/d_admin /lms/b_common /lms/b_prodbus /lms/d_prod /lms/d_prod/ccldir /lms/d_prod/ccluserdir /lms/d_prod/config /lms/d_prod/data /lms/d_prod/log /lms/d_prod/ocd /lms/d_prod/print /lms/d_prod/temp /lms/reg... (7 Replies)

10. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi all, I have a folder that I am trying to tar ut is leading to unexpected results. Ive written a script that find a certain number of files(logs) with specific names older than 14 days, moves them to a folder and compresses that folder. _ARCHIVE=/opt/test/archived_logs... (2 Replies)