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)
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virt-tar-in
virt-tar-in(1) Virtualization Support virt-tar-in(1)NAME
virt-tar-in - Unpack a tarball into a virtual machine disk image.
SYNOPSIS
virt-tar-in -a disk.img data.tar /destination
virt-tar-in -d domain data.tar /destination
zcat data.tar.gz | virt-tar-in -d domain - /destination
WARNING
Using "virt-tar-in" on live virtual machines can be dangerous, potentially causing disk corruption. The virtual machine must be shut down
before you use this command.
DESCRIPTION
"virt-tar-in" unpacks an uncompressed tarball into a virtual machine disk image or named libvirt domain.
The first parameter is the tar file. Use "-" to read the tar file from standard input. The second parameter is the absolute target
directory to unpack into.
EXAMPLES
Upload a home directory to a guest:
virt-tar-in -d MyGuest homes.tar /home
JUST A SHELL SCRIPT WRAPPER AROUND GUESTFISH
This command is just a simple shell script wrapper around the guestfish(1) "tar-in" command. For anything more complex than a trivial
copy, you are probably better off using guestfish directly.
OPTIONS
Since the shell script just passes options straight to guestfish, read guestfish(1) to see the full list of options.
SEE ALSO guestfish(1), virt-cat(1), virt-copy-in(1), virt-copy-out(1), virt-edit(1), virt-make-fs(1), virt-tar-out(1), <http://libguestfs.org/>.
AUTHORS
Richard W.M. Jones ("rjones at redhat dot com")
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2011 Red Hat Inc. <http://libguestfs.org/>
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
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This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation,
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libguestfs-1.18.1 2013-12-07 virt-tar-in(1)