This might work (untested):
The sed-call strips the last component from all pathnames (like dirname), sort and uniq eliminate duplicates and the last command creates the directories.
You probably will have to adapt the sequence to your needs.
Last edited by hergp; 09-18-2012 at 04:01 PM..
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Hi folks,
When I am extracting an archive using the:
tar -xvf /dev/rmt0 command i get the following error:
x ./GRBD8901/GRBR006T, 1763253368 bytes, 3443855 media blocks.
tar: 0511-197 ./GRBD8901/GRBR006T: Cannot write data extracted with the tar command: ... (7 Replies)
Hey guys complete n00b here so I'll try my best at explaining.
I'm creating a backup and restore utility and decided to use tar. I create a backup folder in each user's account and when backing up (say word processing files), I use the following:
tar cvf /home/user/backup/wpbackup.tar... (2 Replies)
hi,
I am in a weird situation. I have a parent tarball which contains 2 sub tarballs.
The structure is such :
Parent.tar.gz ---- > child1.tar.gz and child2.tar.gz
I need to get the size of the parent tarball without untaring it
I know that the command is gunzip -c parent.tar.gz | wc -c ... (1 Reply)
Hi,
I'm using a tar command
tar -xOvf /home/mytar.tar
My intention is to extract data in files which are inside various directories,
without extracting files to the disk.
Is this the best way to achieve it?
Thanks,
Chetan (3 Replies)
Hi,
I have tar filw which has multiple directories which contain files.
When i extract using tar -xf the directory structure also get extracted.
I require only files and not directory structures as there will be overhead of moving the files again.
So i searched here and got a solution but... (4 Replies)
#cat a
BAC064DAL
BAC063DAL
BAC056PHX
BAC066DAL
BAC062PHX
BAC062DAL
BAC060DAL
BAC058PHX
BAC054PHX
BAC051PHX
# for i in `cat a`
> do
> tar xvf $a/$a*.tar*
> done
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tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
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uname -a
SunOS mymac 5.11 11.2 sun4u sparc SUNW,SPARC-Enterprise
I need to tar a folder /tmp/moht but do not want these three folders to be included in the tar file -> savejpg, bmpsave and imgsave
I tried --exclude, -path, -not options but it says bad option
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I have a tar file hello.tar which is 95 GB.
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#!/bin/ksh
BASE=$PWD
STAGE=$BASE/stage
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Hi Team,
Following unix command is throwing error. Can anyone please help me to fix the issue?
tar -cvf /aa/bb/cc/tarball1.tar /x/y/z1/abc.ksh /x/y/z2/pqr.txt /x/y/z3/lmn.tmp
Error message thrown:
tar: Removing leading `/' from member names
OS: uname -a
Linux xyz... (1 Reply)
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