1. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, I am getting following error while running script: tar: can't change directories to /home/xyz/script: No such file or directory tar: compress: No such file or directory tar: getts.tar same as archive file Following is my script: #!/bin/bash echo "You want:" echo "1. zip... (1 Reply)

2. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

I received a tar file of a directory with 50,000 files in it. Is it possible to extract the files in the tar file without first creating the directory? ie. Doing tar -xvf filename.tar extracts as follows: x directory/file1.txt x directory/file2.txt . . . I would like to avoid... (4 Replies)

3. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi All, I am not one of the super users / root for AIX 5.3 system. There is a filesystem Say /DIR1 and its has several subdirs in it say SUBDIR1, SUBDIR2, SUBDIR3. Can I create a tar file for all files under DIR1 and SUBDIR1, SUBDIR3. Excluding SIBDIR2? Also how can I preserve... (2 Replies)

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi , Im spooling file from oracle to csv using shell script. Below is the code im using.. The o/p is not coming in right format.. Please help me out in this.. O/p is coming as header till batch id ,im not able to see date_stored,type,type1.. Please any one can give me some suggestion ... (1 Reply)

5. Solaris

Hello all. I have a tar file that contains a number of files that are stored in different directories. If I extract this tar file with -xvf , the directories get created. Is there a way to extract all of the files into one directory without creating the directories stored in the tar file. (9 Replies)

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi all, I have a tar file and inside that tar file is a folder with additional tar.gz files. What I want to do is look inside the first tar file and then find the second tar file I'm looking for, look inside that tar.gz file to find a certain directory. I'm encountering issues by trying to... (1 Reply)

7. Windows & DOS: Issues & Discussions

Hi, How to create a .tar file in windows OS.. I need to ftp tat <filename>.tar file into AIX and untar it there and will use for futher actions.. Please help.. Thanks in advance.. (2 Replies)

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

I am trying to archive directories based on their last modified date. When I tar and compress the directory it makes copies of whats inside, I don't know how to fix this. Here is my code. #!/bin/bash #AUTODRUNDISABLE VERSION="0.2" cd /desired/directory/to/archive find . -type d -newermt... (3 Replies)

9. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi, Could anyone help me in providing command to generate .tgz file without creating .tar file? currently i am using below command for doing the same but if tar file has big size and there is no space in drive then tgz file will not be generated. I want to generate tgz file directly without... (4 Replies)

10. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi everyone and nice to meet you :) I'm having some issues with a script I'm writing. It's probably most chaotic, I'm no ksh guru, but the idea is to extract an ID with that query, spool it into a file, and read that file making the ID a variable. This has to be done for every row extracted by... (10 Replies)