1. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users

Hi all, How to untar a file with .tar.tar extension. A utility that i downloaded from net had this extension. Thanks in advance, bubeshj. (6 Replies)

2. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, i'm pretty new to unix and shell scripting and i need to untar a load of files all with different names e.g. YAAN00.V404.T13467.tar, YAAN00.V404.T15623.tar etc with the .T* part following no particular series. I tried to untar them in a script using simply tar -xvf YAAN00.V404.T*.tar ... (3 Replies)

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, I have some file in /users/xyz directoty with .tar.gz extension. i need to find these files and if found in need to run other commands. I now the command for finding files,but how to put if condition ?please help me Thanks (3 Replies)

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hell All! I need help writing a script for my job. I never really wrote alot of scripts but I guess it a first time for everything. I need to write a simple script that goes out to our log file directory on our servers and tar and compress them. I need to know how to add an date time stamp to tell... (5 Replies)

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

I am trying to implement the below command in my shell script su - $PROCESS -c `tar -tvf $file|tee -a $LOG/$file.log` The idea is to get the tar output on the screen and at the same time it should put the output in the log file. Problem is: 1) I donot get the output on the screen. 2)... (3 Replies)

6. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users

Hi, On my Unix Server in my directory, I have 70 files distributed in the following directories (which have several other files too). These files include C Source Files, Shell Script Source Files, Binary Files, Object Files. a) /usr/users/oracle/bin b) /usr/users/oracle... (1 Reply)

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi all. Here's my situation: I have performance reports that run every 30 minutes saved in the format: stats_report_11251000.txt stats_report_11251030.txt stats_report_11251100.txt stats_report_11251130.txt (Obviously run at Nov 25 10 AM, 10:30 AM, 11 AM and so on...) I would... (2 Replies)

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

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)

9. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi Guys, I'm very new to bash scripting. Please help me on this. I'm in need of a backup script which does the ff. 1. If a file is larger than 5GB. split it and tar the file. 2. Weekly backup file to amazon s3 using s3rsync 3. If a file is unchanged it doesn't need to copy to amazon s3 ... (4 Replies)

10. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi , I have a file which contains few file names. I need to tar those files but am unable to do inside the script. Any help will be useful. cat /tmp/test aa.txt bb.txt cc.txt I have tried the below code but its not working. for i in `cat /tmp/test';do tar -cvf TEST.tar $i;done (9 Replies)