1. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi, i have more than 300 tar files in directory and i want to zip all tar files to single file. could anybody tell me the command since i know how to do zip for single tar file: bash-3.00$gzip 2008_11_10.tar bash-3.00$ pwd /oracle1/archivebackup in this directory i have lot files... (2 Replies)

2. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hiya, I've been plugging away at this script and I cant get it to behave as I need. first off it fails to adhere to the conditions of the file limit, and zips the directory regardless of the file count and secondly, but less important it zips up the entire path not just the directory I'm... (2 Replies)

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, I am having some problem with a shell script which zip some files. For zipping I have used the following command: find . -name "Test_*" -mtime 0 | zip Test_$(date +"%Y%m%d") -@ I have kept the script in /home/abc directory. It is creating the zip file within the same directory where i... (2 Replies)

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi guys. I'm doing some bash scripting and have run into a snag. Say I have the path: /home/one/two/three/ All I need is the 'three' while making a filename. Is there an easy way to do this? I've tried using grep (because I'm that smart.) cut (as I'm unable to tell how many fields there... (3 Replies)

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

I need to fit in a module in my Korn Shell script which would extract file_archive.tar.gz residing in the folder /apps/Test of my local machine into a folder /global/ in a remote machine server1. Please help me on this regard. Thanks Kumarjit. (2 Replies)

6. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi Folks, I have a directory in unix that is /usr/local/pos contain the folowing directoreis ..that is dir1 dir2 dir3 now I want to delete only dir2 please advise how to remove the directory dir 2 ..that is rm command and how to use it , and second if I want to zip the dir3 please... (1 Reply)

7. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi Folks, I have logs at the following location cd /out/app/logs/ now that logs directory contain different types of logs now sometimes i need to do disk clean up activity so i need to zipped the logs can you please advise any command by which all the logs created in this directory are... (2 Replies)

8. UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers

I have a file, in Windows, called php_0.27.tar.gz and want to extract it to C:\Program Files\PHP\script through Cygwin using this command: tar -xf php_0.27.tar.gz -C /Program Files/PHP/script But I got an error saying: tar: Files: Not found in archive I tried this command too: ... (8 Replies)

9. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi , I want to zip files present in the directories listed under a parent directory without zipping the directory itself my parent directory path is /informatica/DGDMN/PowerCenter1011/server/infa_shared/SrcFiles/OTE/Final_Directory I have the below directories named as 1,2,3,4,5 listed... (9 Replies)

10. UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers

Dear Experts, I have some directory structure something like follows. I would like to cut portion of it. Would you please help me? I have to run this on several sql's. The directory path is dynamic. I have cut what comes after first "sql" string. Input:... (3 Replies)