Assuming that tar stripped the leading slants when it created the archive, this should work:
If your version of tar supports -z, then
I always restore into a working directory so as not to accidentally overlay something. Once the files are restored, you can copy/move them as needed.
yes thank you , i was not leaving off the leading /, so it wasnt finding anything.,....
Here is how I got where I am:
I tried untarring tomcat and at the end of the untar I get the following:
So I downloaded GNU tar and did a pkgadd -d, which installed the package.
But when I run /usr/local/bin/tar, I get this message: (1 Reply)
I downloaded GNUtar from sunfreeware.con and installed it on a sparc running sun 9.
Performed pkgadd -d on the required lib and tar file and everything seemed to be ok.
I tried to extract a file from a tar created using the sun version with no success. Tar ran for several hours working on the... (6 Replies)
I'm pulling a 1MB file from tape using tar. It's a 300GB DLT tape and it does have a lot of files on it because it's go the entire OS and Oracle RMAN files and 3000 table exports, but it's taking 2-3 hours to pull this file off of it. Is this type of performance what I should expect?
The... (0 Replies)
I have this tar file which has files of (.ksh, .ini &.sql) and their hard and soft links.
Later when the original files and their directories are deleted (or rather lost as in a system crash), I have this tar file as the only source to restore all of them.
In such a case when I do,
tar... (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
root@appdr01 #ls -latr
total 2887400
drwxr-xr-x 2 root system 256 May 06 11:34 lost+found
drwxr-xr-x 34 root system 4096 May 06 11:34 ..
drwxr-xr-x 3 root system 256 May 06 12:20 .
-rw-r----- 1 root system 1478338560 May 06... (1 Reply)
Not sure if this is really in the right forum but here goes....
Looking for a way to extract individual compressed files from a compressed tarball WITHOUT tar -zxvf and then recompressing. Basically we need to be able to chunk out an individual compressed file while it still remains... (6 Replies)
I'm working on a project that requires me to compress then relocate directories to a different location based on their last date of modification. After running the script I check to see if it worked, and upon unzipping the tar.gz using I created everything that should be there is. I then performed... (4 Replies)
Hello,
Getting this very strange error, made tar/zip through gnu tar
GNU Tar ( successful tar and zip without any errors )
/opt/freeware/bin/tar cvf - /oraapp| gzip > /backup/bkp_15_6_16_oraapp.tgz
GNU unTar error
root@test8:/>gunzip < /config1/bkp_15_6_16_oraapp.tgz |... (5 Replies)
The below bash will untar each tar.bz2 folder in the directory, then remove the tar.bz2.
Each of the tar.bz2 folders ranges from 40-75GB and currently takes ~2 hours to extract. Is there a way to speed up the extraction process?
I am using a xeon processor with 12 cores. Thank you :).
... (7 Replies)
Discussion started by: cmccabe
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LEARN ABOUT NETBSD
uuencode
UUENCODE(1) BSD General Commands Manual UUENCODE(1)NAME
uuencode, uudecode -- encode/decode a binary file
SYNOPSIS
uuencode [-m] [inputfile] outputname
uudecode [-m | -p] [encoded-file ...]
DESCRIPTION
uuencode and uudecode are used to transmit binary files over transmission mediums that do not support other than simple ASCII data.
The following options are available:
-m Use base64 encoding.
uuencode reads inputfile (or by default the standard input) and writes an encoded version to the standard output. The encoding uses only
printing ASCII characters and includes the mode of the file and the operand outputname for use by uudecode.
uudecode transforms uuencoded files (or by default, the standard input) into the original form. The resulting file is named outputname as
recorded in the encoded file, and will have the mode of the original file except that setuid and execute bits are not retained; if the -p
option is specified, the data will be written to the standard output instead. uudecode ignores any leading and trailing lines.
EXIT STATUS
The uudecode and uuencode utilities exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.
EXAMPLES
The following example packages up a source tree, compresses it, uuencodes it and mails it to a user on another system.
tar czf - src_tree | uuencode src_tree.tgz | mail user@example.com
On the other system, if the user saves the mail to the file temp, the following example creates the file src_tree.tgz and extracts it to make
a copy of the original tree.
uudecode temp
tar xzf src_tree.tgz
SEE ALSO gzip(1), mail(1), tar(1), uuencode(5)STANDARDS
The uudecode and uuencode utilities conform to IEEE Std 1003.2-1992 (``POSIX.2'').
HISTORY
The uudecode and uuencode utilities appeared in 4.0BSD.
BUGS
The encoded form of the file is expanded by 35% (3 bytes become 4 plus control information).
BSD November 30, 2008 BSD