I'm new to the unix environment. I need to find out what parameters I need to use to save directory structure and the files underneath this directory AND how to restore this directory structure on another unix machine.
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I want to tar multiple folder from a environment but exclude 2 folders among them. How can I do that. Is there any exclude option in tar command.
Please co-operate me.
Thanking you,
Chandrakant. (8 Replies)
Hi all,
Can anyone please say me what exactly a 'tar' command does? From what all I know, its not basically a compression tool. But I have seen many used it for compression purpose.
If you have any links or any stuff which can help me better understand about 'tar', that will be greatly... (1 Reply)
Hi all,
4 files are returned when i issue 'find . -mtime -1 -type f -ls'.
./ora_475244.aud
./ora_671958.aud
./ora_934052.aud
./ora_934050.aud
However, when I issued the below command:
tar -cvf test.tar `find . -mtime -1 -type f`, the tar file only contains the 1st file -... (2 Replies)
Hi,
I am using the following DOS command to tar my .gz file from the command prompt
C:\tar\bin>tar -cf test.tar D:\Coim\*.gz
but this creates a tar file under the path C:\tar\bin\test.tar but i want the tar file to be created under D:\Coim\test.tar
Is there any option in tar command... (4 Replies)
HI,
if I have a tarfile called pmapdata.tar that contains
tar -tvf pmapdata.tar
-rw-r--r-- 0/0 21 Oct 15 11:00 2009 /var/tmp/pmapdata/pmap4628.txt
-rw-r--r-- 0/0 21 Oct 14 20:00 2009 /var/tmp/pmapdata/pmap23752.txt
-rw-r--r-- 0/0 1625 Oct 13 20:00 2009... (1 Reply)
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)
I have a tar file that contains multiple .Z files. Hence I need to issue a tar command followed by a gzip command to fully extract the files. How do I do it in a single command?
What I'm doing now is
tar xvf a.tar (this will output 1.Z and 2.Z)
gzip -d *.Z (to extract 1.Z and 2.Z) (9 Replies)
Is it possible to untar a file so it's size reduces while it uncompresses its contents. I have limited space on my mount point and was wondering if we can untar as a stream in other words the size of tarball reduces as it uncompresses the contents.
Thanks (5 Replies)
Hello Team,
Would you please help me with a UNIX command that would check if file is a tar file.
if we dont have that , can you help me with UNIX command that would check if file ends with .tar
Thanks in advance. (10 Replies)
Discussion started by: sanjaydubey2006
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file-roller
file-roller(1) General Commands Manual file-roller(1)NAME
file-roller - archive manager for GNOME
SYNOPSIS
file-roller [OPTIONS...] [FILE...]
DESCRIPTION
File Roller is a graphical interface to archiving utilities such as tar and zip.
It supports most common operations such as creating, modifing and extracting files from an archive. You can also view the contents of an
archive and open files contained in the archive.
OPTIONS -a, --add-to=ARCHIVE
Add files to the specified archive and quit the program
-d, --add FILE
Add files asking the name of the archive and quit the program
-e, --extract-to=FOLDER
Extract archives to the specified folder and quit the program
-f, --extract
Extract archives asking the destination folder and quit the program
-h, --extract-here
Extract archives using the archive name as destination folder and quit the program
--default-dir=FOLDER
Default folder to use for the '--add' and '--extract' commands
--force
Create destination folder without asking confirmation
This program also accepts the standard GNOME and GTK options.
AUTHORS
file-roller is written by Paolo Bacchilega <paolo.bacch@tin.it>.
This manual page was written by Sven Arvidsson <sa@whiz.se>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others).
SEE ALSO gtk-options(7), gnome-options(7)
The online documentation available through the program's Help menu.
GNOME 2007-09-27 file-roller(1)