Try:
1. Normally it is not possible to delete a file from a tape archive. Some tars may have a special option. Otherwise the archive would need to be recreated.
2. Try:
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Hi,
I use the following command to search for a string in all the files in the directories and sub directories.
find . -type f -print | xargs grep bermun@cial.net
Can someone please cite a method wherin I can find the entries from a list of 300-500 *.gz files by modifying the above... (2 Replies)
Hi,
I'm Eddy from Belgium and I've the following problem.
I try to write a ksh script in AIX to tar, compress and remove the original *.wav files from the directory belgacom_sf_messages older than two days with the following commands.
The problem is that I do not find a good combination... (4 Replies)
Hi,
Please let me know how to find out number of files in a directory excluding existing files..The existing file format will be unknown..each time..
Thanks (3 Replies)
Hi all,
I have a tar file and inside that tar file is a folder with additional tar.gz files. What I want to do is look inside the first tar file and then find the second tar file I'm looking for, look inside that tar.gz file to find a certain directory. I'm encountering issues by trying to... (1 Reply)
Hi all,
I want to check whether tar file exists in the directory or not. If tar file exists in the directory then I want to append the files to it.
I am using the below command to tar files if the file does not exist.
tar zcvf <tar file name> <Files to append>
However, if want to... (4 Replies)
Linux RHEL 5.4
It is easy to create a tarball when you have files same extension
For eg:
You want to tar all files with the extension .log . This is easy
tar -cvf diagnose.tar *.log
I have two files with different extensions .log and .sh :
error.log
myscript.sh
I want to create a... (5 Replies)
I am not able to extract/remove files older than 1000 days from a tar archive in linux system.
#!/usr/bin/perl
@file_list = `find /home/x/tmp/ -name *xxMsg* -ctime +7`;
$file_name = '/home/x/tmp/new_archive.tar';
for... (1 Reply)
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LEARN ABOUT PLAN9
tar
TAR(1) General Commands Manual TAR(1)NAME
tar - archiver
SYNOPSIS
tar key [ file ... ]
DESCRIPTION
Tar saves and restores file trees. It is most often used to transport a tree of files from one system to another. The key is a string
that contains at most one function letter plus optional modifiers. Other arguments to the command are names of files or directories to be
dumped or restored. A directory name implies all the contained files and subdirectories (recursively).
The function is one of the following letters:
c Create a new archive with the given files as contents.
x Extract the named files from the archive. If a file is a directory, the directory is extracted recursively. Modes are restored if
possible. If no file argument is given, extract the entire archive. If the archive contains multiple entries for a file, the lat-
est one wins.
t List all occurrences of each file in the archive, or of all files if there are no file arguments.
r The named files are appended to the archive.
The modifiers are:
v (verbose) Print the name of each file treated preceded by the function letter. With t, give more details about the archive entries.
f Use the next argument as the name of the archive instead of the default standard input (for keys x and t) or standard output (for
keys c and r).
u Use the next (numeric) argument as the user id for files in the output archive. This is only useful when moving files to a non-Plan
9 system.
g Use the next (numeric) argument as the group id for files in the output archive.
EXAMPLES
Tar can be used to copy hierarchies thus:
{cd fromdir; tar c .} | {cd todir; tar x}
SOURCE
/sys/src/cmd/tar.c
SEE ALSO ar(1), bundle(1), tapefs(1)BUGS
There is no way to ask for any but the last occurrence of a file.
File path names are limited to 100 characters.
The tar format allows specification of links and symbolic links, concepts foreign to Plan 9: they are ignored.
TAR(1)