I have tar ball "data.tar" which consists of many files from different directories.
If I untar a file using following command, it will untar file to location /input/data
Code:
tar -xvf data.tar /input/data/abc.txt
I want the file to be untar in current directory and or any other directory of my choice. Also it should not overwrite if there is a file with the same name in the directory.
I searched and found that pax command could do it. But could not find the exact command for my need.
I found the following command but looks like the below command will untar all files and not specific file.
I have a .tar file consisting of text and binary files. I ftp'd the .tar file using ftp binary.
when I did the pax to unwind the tar file, I noiticed that the text files were encoded in binary.
**How would I retain the text characteristics of the ascii text files, while also keeping the... (11 Replies)
I am having trouble with the pax command on Saris. I want to sue it to untar a file to a different directory. So if mytar.tar conatins files that were in /u02/mydir/mydir2/mydir3, I want to untar them to /export/home/mydir.
An example I have is:
pax -r -s... (2 Replies)
Hi, I am using AIX 5.3.0.0 and Ultrium LTO3 Tape Drive as rmt1. I have backup some of my database file using command "pax" as
pax -wvf /dev/rmt1 "./data01/abc.dmp"
But when I tried to read the file from tape by issuing the command,
pax -vf /dev/rmt1
The error message displayed as
pax:... (4 Replies)
we created a TAR file ( souce /opt/oracle/10.2) . If we want to extract it diff directory say (/tmp) . I know we can use pax to do this .but inside TAR we have absolute path ref . if we pax does it replaces absolute path in TAR ?
Thanks (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 this command
pax -f /Unix/codes/code.tar -r -s::/Unix/archive:
objective is to transfer tar file /Unix/codes/code.tar to /Unix/archive with untarring done . For this reason i am using pax and not tar -xvf as we cant specify untarred destination in that
the problem is... (2 Replies)
tar has the -T operand for reading patterns from a file.
Is there any way to read patterns from stdin, without creating a temp file? I would like to avoid iterating over the archive repeatedly (e.g. with a loop or xargs) as this is a large archive and we're only extracting a small number of... (2 Replies)
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)
Hello,
I have a tape backup (it was made using dd/tar) and I want to use dd/pax to restore tape to disk, in IBM AIX 7.2.
I can restore from tape using example below without issues.
#/usr/bin/dd bs=128k if=/dev/rmt0 | /usr/bin/pax -r -v /home/c3rb3rus/utils/*
USTAR format archive... (6 Replies)
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bf_tar
BF_TAR(1) Bogofilter Reference Manual BF_TAR(1)NAME
bf_tar - shell script to write a tar file of a bogofilter directory to stdout
SYNOPSIS
bf_tar [-r] [-R] bogofilter_directory
DESCRIPTION
bf_tar bundles a bogofilter working directory in tar format and copies it to standard output (your console, or where you redirect it, see
EXAMPLES below).
OPTIONS
The -r option causes bf_tar to remove inactive log files after the archive has been written successfully. The default is to leave log
files.
The -R option causes bf_tar to remove inactive log files before the archive is written. This may reduce chances that the resulting archive
is recoverable should it become damaged. The archive may be smaller though. The default is to leave log files.
EXIT STATUS
The script exits with status code 0 if everything went well, and nonzero if it encountered trouble.
EXAMPLES
o bf_tar ~/.bogofilter > outfile.tar
Writes a standard .tar file containing the essential files from ~/.bogofilter to outfile.tar.
o bf_tar ~/.bogofilter | gzip -9 -c > outfile.tar.gz
Writes a gzipped .tar.gz file containing the essential files from ~/.bogofilter to outfile.tar.gz.
o bf_tar `pwd`/mydirectory > outfile.tar
Prepend $(pwd)/ or `pwd`/ if you want to specify an absolute path instead of a relative path.
NOTES
This script is meant for use with Berkeley DB based bogofilter versions.
This script requires a SUSv2 compliant pax utility.
This script expects a SUSv2 compliant shell. Solaris systems should have the SUNWxcu4 package installed (when bogofilter is configured) so
that /usr/xpg4/bin/sh can be used.
AUTHORS
Matthias Andree
Bogofilter 10/22/2012 BF_TAR(1)