This is a two step approach, but it should do what you request:
1) create an "exclude file" containing all entries that are NOT directories (hoping your grep installation can use EREs).
2) untar the tarball excluding above; this will create the directories with owner info and permissions:
You may need to anchor the result according to your needs.
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
tar: /*.tar*: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
tar: /*.tar*: Cannot... (3 Replies)
Hi,
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
Can you help me with... (3 Replies)
I have a tar file hello.tar which is 95 GB.
hello.tar has many files and folders including some tar files as well.
I wish to create a new tar ball which should maintain only the folder structure of hello.tar and the tar ball within the hello.tar
So basically the idea is to untar... (2 Replies)
Hi all. I'm hitting a problem creating a tar archive in one directory from files located in a different directory. It fails when I replace the absolute paths with variables in the script but works if I just run tar on the cmdln. E.g.
#!/bin/ksh
BASE=$PWD
STAGE=$BASE/stage
LOG=$BASE/log... (4 Replies)
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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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
unburden-home-dir
UNBURDEN-HOME-DIR(1) User Commands UNBURDEN-HOME-DIR(1)NAME
unburden-home-dir - unburdens home directories from caches and trashes
SYNOPSIS
unburden-home-dir [ -n | -u | -f filter ]
unburden-home-dir ( -h | --help | --version )
DESCRIPTION
unburden-home-dir unburdens the home directory from files and directory which cause high I/O or disk usage but are neither important if
they are lost, e.g. caches or trash directory.
When being run it moves the files and directories given in the configuration file to a location outside the home directory, e.g. /tmp or
/scratch, and puts appropriate symbolic links in the home directory instead.
OPTIONS -f just unburden those directory matched by the given filter (a perl regular expression) -- matches the already unburdened directories
if used together with -u.
-F Do not check for files in use with lsof before (re)moving files.
-n dry run (show what would be done)
-u undo (reverse the functionality and put stuff back into the home directory)
-h, --help
show this help
--version
show the program's version
EXAMPLES
Example configuration files can be found at /usr/share/doc/unburden-home-dir/examples on Debian-based systems and in the etc/ directory of
the source tar ball.
FILES
/etc/unburden-home-dir, /etc/unburden-home-dir.list, ~/.unburden-home-dir, ~/.unburden-home-dir.list, /etc/default/unburden-home-dir,
/etc/X11/Xsession.d/95unburden-home-dir
Read /usr/share/doc/unburden-home-dir/README on debianoid installations or README in the source tar ball for an explanation of these files.
SEE ALSO
corekeeper (http://openvswitch.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=corekeeper), autotrash(1), agedu(1), bleachbit(1).
For du(1)-like but more comfortable tools, see ncdu(1) (text-mode), baobab(1) (GNOME), filelight(1) (KDE), xdiskusage(1) (X tool calling
du(1) itself), or xdu(1) (X tool reading du(1) output from STDIN).
AUTHOR
Unburden Home Dir is written and maintained by Axel Beckert <beckert@phys.ethz.ch>
LICENSE
Unburden Home Dir is available under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL) version 2 or any later version at your option.
Unburden Home Directory May 2012 UNBURDEN-HOME-DIR(1)