I'm trying to tar a bunch of files off to a tape, but for one specific file (it is fairly large, roughly 10Gb) I get the error:
too large to archive
Does tar have a limit of the size of file it can write off to tape? I'm using SunOS 5.8.
Thanks!
-Fred (6 Replies)
If I have a directory /directory1 and want to tar and zip everything in it into a file new_tar.tar.gz on disk (not tape)
How can I do it?
I tried tar -cv /new_tar.tar /directory1/*
But I got an error: tar: /dev/rmt/0: No such device or address (4 Replies)
Hi,
How do I tar all but a specific set of files in a directory? Is it possible to use regular expressions in the tar command? I want to tar all files except those beginning with D. I tried this
tar -cvf files.tar ^
but this didn't work. Anyone any ideas.
Thanks (2 Replies)
Hi all, my directory structure is as follows /a/b/c.
I would like to tar the /a directory including the subdirectories b and c.
i intend to use the command tar -cvfz a.tgz a/ My question is where do i execute the command? do i execute it at the '/' prompt or at '/a' prompt ? My concern at... (1 Reply)
Hi,
I want to extract myfile.war to a folder which is in the same folder with war file.I did this as normal:
jar -xvf myfile.war
But it exploded all the content of file to the same level folder instead of that I was expecting to create a folder called myfile.
This works with tar:
... (0 Replies)
I have a file that is 20 - 80+ MB in size that is a certain type of log file.
It logs one of our processes and this process is multi-threaded. Therefore the log file is kind of a mess. Here's an example:
The logfile looks like: "DATE TIME - THREAD ID - Details", and a new file is created... (4 Replies)
I'm trying to compress a directory structure on an external hard drive, connected by eSATA cable to my linux (Ubuntu 10.04) desktop. The total volume is 500Gb with half a million files, ranging from Kb to Mb in size. The drive is 2Tb, with 0.8Tb free space before compression.
running "tar -pcf... (10 Replies)
I would like to confirm my file.tar is been tar-ed correctly before I remove them. But I have very limited disc space to untar it.
Can I just do the listing instead of actual extract it? Can I say confirm folder integrity if the listing is sucessful without problem?
tar tvf file1.tar
... (1 Reply)
Hi All,
I need a solution for the following scenario.
I am the owner for the particular folder and I have given 777 permissions for some specific reasons. So others can able to create folders and files.
But when I am done with the work, I need to delete the folders which are created by... (4 Replies)
I am trying to write a script that loops through all the folders within a given folder.
My intention is to access each folder and rename each file ending with fna.gz with the name of the folder it resides in.
#!/bin/bash
cd /p/w/d/
for f in /p/w/d/*; do
echo $f
done
I'm... (13 Replies)
Discussion started by: Mr_Keystrokes
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LEARN ABOUT OSF1
packf
packf(1) General Commands Manual packf(1)NAME
packf - compress a folder into a single file (only available within the message handling system, mh)
SYNOPSIS
packf [+folder] [msgs] [-file name] [-help]
OPTIONS
Specifies the file in which you want the message(s) to be stored. If you specify an existing file then the specified messages will be
appended to the end of that file. Otherwise, a new file will be created and the messages placed in it. If you do not specify a filename,
packf attempts to place the messages in a file called msgbox in the current working directory. If this file does not exist, packf asks
whether you want to create it. Prints a list of the valid options to this command.
The default settings for this command are:
+folder defaults to the current folder msgs defaults to all -file
DESCRIPTION
Each message in a folder is normally stored as a separate file. The packf command takes all messages from the current folder and copies
them to a single specified file. Each message in the file is separated by four <CTRL/A>s and a newline.
You can specify a folder other than the current folder by using the +folder argument. If you do not want all the messages in a folder to be
packed into one file, you can specify a number of messages or a range of messages with message numbers.
The first message packed will become the current message. If you specify a +folder argument, that folder will become the current folder.
When messages have been packed into a file using packf, you can separate them into individual messages using the burst command. See
burst(1).
PROFILE COMPONENTS
Path: To determine the user's Mail directory
Msg-Protect: To set protections when creating a new file
EXAMPLES
The first example shows all the messages in the folder +lrp being packed into a file called planning: % packf +lrp -file planning The next
example shows how packf prompts you if you do not specify a -file option. A file called msgbox is created by packf in your home directory,
and messages 3 to 5 are packed into it: % packf +lrp 3-5 Create file "/machine/disk/username/msgbox"? y
FILES
The user profile.
SEE ALSO burst(1)packf(1)