Did you get any error?
too many argument limits are there for everything.. ( ls, rm, etc )
I am not sure what is the exact limit for it and on what it is based on ( os? shell? )
but you can always get rid of that with using exec and xargs
how do you populates these file-names? with find probably ?
if yes, then something better is there i think..
A good place to start is simple variable passing....
Passing variables from one script to another
The next level is passing a variable into a more complex command such as using a variable in a sed command. There are some simple quoting techniques that are very general. These are mentioned... (0 Replies)
I have a problem where tar is somehow creating duplicate filenames when tarring a directory. Doing an ls on the directory does not show any duplicate filenames, yet when the directory is tarred, you can see that there are duplicates:
bash-2.03# pwd
/var/log/cricket
bash-2.03# ls -1 | sort |... (2 Replies)
Hi there, i have been working on a backup script and have it just about working, the only problem im left with is that my filenames for my backups are all the same are replacing one another when backing up.
currently i have
BACKUP_FILE=backup_$(date +%d%m%y).tgz
but would like something like... (2 Replies)
Hello,
I have a shell script "Test.ksh" and I need to pass 8 parameters/arguments while executing the script
./Test.ksh 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
Out of these I want first 3 to be compulsory and rest 5 to be optional. Can you suggest the way to do this like and also how to pass these optional... (3 Replies)
Dear experts,
I have to take back up of 1.8TB data in single cmd. I have tape which has the capasity of 600 GB. Hence i want to use multiple tapes to take the backup using tar cmd.
Kindly help.
-Anand (8 Replies)
Hello friends,
I have a boubt passing different arguments at a time for any one option in below code.
I would also like to check which option has been selected (any one of i, r, u ) so that whether or not matching argument passed can be verified.
for i and r - install and re-install -... (4 Replies)
Hello, I have a series of files in sub-directories that I want to loop through, process and name according to the input filename and the various parameters I'm using to process the files. I have a number of each, for example file names like AG005574, AG004788, AG003854 and parameter values like... (2 Replies)
Hi, I'm working on HP-UX B.11.23 64bit. I tried to tar couple of directories but failed to do so.
$ tar -cvf tar_file_name -C /dir1 /dir2
the -C is for directories as mentioned in the man pages. But still unable to create a tar file having directories and sub-directories.
Requesting help in... (1 Reply)
Based on arguments passing in command prompt values should fetch and store in new file.
Sample:-
sh test.sh 10 30 35 45
cat test.sh
..
cut -c $1-$2,$3-$4 file_name >> file_new
...
...
Above sample passing 4 arguments.. but it may differ (sh test.sh 10 30 35 45 70 75 ) based on... (1 Reply)
Hi,
Is there a special positional variables for when using the dot (.)?
Scripts are as below:
$: head -100 x.ksh /tmp/y.ksh
==> x.ksh <==
#!/bin/ksh
#
. /tmp/y.ksh 1234 abcd
echo "yvar1 = $yvar1"
echo "yvar2 = $yvar2"
==> /tmp/y.ksh <==
#!/bin/ksh (2 Replies)
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LEARN ABOUT PLAN9
tar
TAR(1) General Commands Manual TAR(1)NAME
tar - archiver
SYNOPSIS
tar key [ file ... ]
DESCRIPTION
Tar saves and restores file trees. It is most often used to transport a tree of files from one system to another. The key is a string
that contains at most one function letter plus optional modifiers. Other arguments to the command are names of files or directories to be
dumped or restored. A directory name implies all the contained files and subdirectories (recursively).
The function is one of the following letters:
c Create a new archive with the given files as contents.
x Extract the named files from the archive. If a file is a directory, the directory is extracted recursively. Modes are restored if
possible. If no file argument is given, extract the entire archive. If the archive contains multiple entries for a file, the lat-
est one wins.
t List all occurrences of each file in the archive, or of all files if there are no file arguments.
r The named files are appended to the archive.
The modifiers are:
v (verbose) Print the name of each file treated preceded by the function letter. With t, give more details about the archive entries.
f Use the next argument as the name of the archive instead of the default standard input (for keys x and t) or standard output (for
keys c and r).
u Use the next (numeric) argument as the user id for files in the output archive. This is only useful when moving files to a non-Plan
9 system.
g Use the next (numeric) argument as the group id for files in the output archive.
EXAMPLES
Tar can be used to copy hierarchies thus:
{cd fromdir; tar c .} | {cd todir; tar x}
SOURCE
/sys/src/cmd/tar.c
SEE ALSO ar(1), bundle(1), tapefs(1)BUGS
There is no way to ask for any but the last occurrence of a file.
File path names are limited to 100 characters.
The tar format allows specification of links and symbolic links, concepts foreign to Plan 9: they are ignored.
TAR(1)