Hello,
I am wondering if there is an easy way to add a file to a tarball rather than extracting, adding, then remaking the tarball.
The tarball was made in this way:
tar -cpvzf .wine.tar.gz .wine/If I had a file to the .wine/ dir (or if I just wanted to add a file to the tarball), I would... (4 Replies)
Hi all,
I would like to ask whether in Unix shell/perl have any functions or command to allow grep/cat/read a file inside compressed .tgz without extract it?
I know we can tar tvf a compressed tgz but this only allow we read the path/filename contained inside the tarball. If we want to read... (3 Replies)
I have a ZIP folder ( folder.zip or folder.jar ) which contains , lets say 3 directories under it ( directory1, directory2, directory3).
How can i unzip the contents of directory2 ONLY ? I do not have to unzip the complete folder.
TIA. (2 Replies)
Hi All-
I want to extract a particular folder from .tar format files.
For example:
File Name: backup.tar
The backup.tar contains the below folders & files.
1) /root_folder/Folder1/Folder1-1/*
2) /root_folder/Folder1/Folder1-2/*
3) /root_folder/Folder2/Folder2-1/*
4)... (5 Replies)
Hi everyone,
I have different folders which looks like this:
/mnt/ecrm/master/ecrm/templates/brochure/de_DE/zeitlos.ott
/mnt/ecrm/master/ecrm/templates/mail/en_US/default.html
/templates/header_and_footer/en_US/default.txt
I want to get the bold text only in a variable. I already have a... (3 Replies)
I wanna make a backup tarball. I wanna write a script that makes tarball of the current directory.
There are lots of files so I cant type all files, I wanna make the tarball by excluding few files.
Like there 1000 files in a directory I wanna create a tarball containing 98 files of that... (1 Reply)
I was wondering if anyone can point me to some topics, material, or tutorials that can help me write a shell script that creates a second script that is a Self-extracting tarball. Don't want any actual code obviously because this is a school project, but I feel my teacher didn't well cover the... (3 Replies)
Hi All,
We are planning to migrate from Solaris to AIX, and we have a requirement to move all files modified in last 7 days to AIX.
i found many helpful forums on this site but somehow the issue was still not solved:
Used the following command from the directory which we want to scan
... (6 Replies)
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LEARN ABOUT SUNOS
file-roller
file-roller(1) User Commands file-roller(1)NAME
file-roller - create, view, modify, or unpack an archive
SYNOPSIS
file-roller [--add] [--add-to=archive] [--default-dir=folder] [--extract] [--extract-to=folder] [--force] [--help] [--usage]
DESCRIPTION
The File Roller application enables you to create, view, modify, or unpack an archive. An archive is a file that acts as a container for
other files. An archive can contain many files, folders, and subfolders, usually in compressed form.
OPTIONS
The following options are supported:
--add Ask for the name of the archive, then add the files, then quit the application. You can also use -a to specify this
option.
--add-to=archive Add files to the specified archive, then quit the application. You can also use -d to specify this option.
--default-dir=folder Specify the default folder for the--add and --extract options.
--extract Ask for the name of the destination folder, then extract the files, then quit the application. You can also use -f
to specify this option.
--extract-to=folder Extract archives to the specified folder, then quit the application. You can also use -e to specify this option.
--force Create the destination folder without asking for confirmation.
--help Display help text. You can also use -? to specify this option.
--usage Display brief usage text.
EXAMPLES
Example 1: Unpacking an Archive
example% file-roller --extract archive
EXIT STATUS
The following exit values are returned:
0 Application exited successfully
>0 Application exited with failure
FILES
The following files are used by this application:
/usr/bin/file-roller Executable for File Roller application.
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Availability |SUNW |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Interface stability |External |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO
File Roller Manual
NOTES
Written by Laszlo Kovacs, Sun Microsystems Inc., 2003.
SunOS 5.10 29 Sep 2003 file-roller(1)