I was extracting the zipped tar file with the command
gzip -dc Sample.tar.gz |tar xf -
The tar file contained many delimited files; but lately they changed the structure of the tar file with another folder. So now all the delimited files are inside a folder called "Folder1" and the folder is packaged with tar.
When I try to run the above command I get an error like below
Dear experts
I have received a tar file containing several files with full path. Now I need to restore it in another system but when I want to extract files by using
tar -xvf tarfile
it wants to create all files with full paths again in new system in which I don't have enough previleges.
How... (4 Replies)
Can I extract files from an archive file (tar), where the filename includes the full directory path, to a different directory?
For example the archive files may have a filename of
/SrcFiles/XXX/filename.dat
and I want to extract it to /SrcFiles/YYY/filename.dat. Since the archive file... (1 Reply)
Can I extract files from an archive file (tar), where the filename includes the full directory path, to a different directory?
For example the archive files may have a filename of
/SrcFiles/XXX/filename.dat
and I want to extract it to /SrcFiles/YYY/filename.dat. Since the archive file was... (1 Reply)
Hi All,
I want to read the content of the particular file from tar.Z without extracting.
aaa.tar.Z contains a file called one.txt, I want to read the content of the one.txt without extracting.
Please help me to read the content of it.
Regards,
Kalai. (12 Replies)
Hi Gurus,
I have a .tar file which required untar to the new location. I list the content with –tvf its listing the files which are inside the tar, when I am extracting he file from tar its working fine, however once I am trying to extract the file at the new location I am unable to do so. I... (11 Replies)
I have tried:
tar -xfv mytarfile.tar archive/tabv/*
tar -xfv mytarfile.tar --wildcards 'archive/tabv/*'
tar -xf mytarfile.tar -v --wildcards 'archive/tabv/*'
tar -xfv mytarfile.tar --wildcards --no-anchored 'archive/tabv/*'
tar -xfv mytarfile.tar --wildcards `archive/tabv/*`
and none... (5 Replies)
Hello, I am currently dumping 30-40 reports on a Unix folder located here /home/apps/reports/prode/excel
I use K-shell to do this task. In that, I use the gzip command to compress these files. I want to be able to use a tar command to first load the entire directory into one file then gzip that... (2 Replies)
Hi,
I want to tar files and zip them in order to clean up space in directory. I have files like /path/file1 /path file2.
What I am trying to do is:
Option 1:
tar -cvf /path/file1 /path file2 | gzip > test.tar.gz
I got the file created. But while trying to extract the Tar and zipped file, I... (1 Reply)
Hi
I have a few hundred files with extension .tar.Z. These files were archived (tar) and compressed (Z) on a UNIX system. I need to unzip them but not extract them. In other words they need to go to .tar extension. I would like to do this on my MAC or on a windows pc. I do not have a UNIX... (3 Replies)