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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Using tar to move directories Post 302823403 by KathyB148 on Wednesday 19th of June 2013 08:55:40 AM
Old 06-19-2013
To create the .tar file, I was in a temp directory and ran the following:
Code:
'tar -cvf myfile.tar /pulsar/paysrc/libsrc'

Then, viewing the tar using
Code:
'tar tvf myfile.tar'

I see that all the contents of libsrc...as an example:
Code:
'-rw-rw-r-- 203 224     521 Jun 10 10:57:17 2002 /pulsar/paysrc/libsrc/exists_file.c
'

So, I will then need to FTP myfile.tar from Unix to my pc and then to a remote Unix server where it will need to be extracted. I am thinking that, since the path is included, it will attempt to extract to the original directory (/pulsar/paysrc/libsrc)...but I am not clear on this. If this is true, then will the directory tree be created or will we have to make the appropriate directories first?

Just for further info - we are testing an upgrade to our Unix server and to the latest version of AIX and the whole purpose of this is to see if all our programs (some of which are very old) will run on the new system. Programs are written in C and in Fortran as well as some shell scripts. The new server is not in-house, but rather is being provided remotely for our testing.

Hope this makes a bit more sense.
 

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GIT-TAR-TREE(1) 						    Git Manual							   GIT-TAR-TREE(1)

NAME
git-tar-tree - Create a tar archive of the files in the named tree object SYNOPSIS
git tar-tree [--remote=<repo>] <tree-ish> [ <base> ] DESCRIPTION
THIS COMMAND IS DEPRECATED. Use git archive with --format=tar option instead (and move the <base> argument to --prefix=base/). Creates a tar archive containing the tree structure for the named tree. When <base> is specified it is added as a leading path to the files in the generated tar archive. git tar-tree behaves differently when given a tree ID versus when given a commit ID or tag ID. In the first case the current time is used as modification time of each file in the archive. In the latter case the commit time as recorded in the referenced commit object is used instead. Additionally the commit ID is stored in a global extended pax header. It can be extracted using git get-tar-commit-id. OPTIONS
<tree-ish> The tree or commit to produce tar archive for. If it is the object name of a commit object. <base> Leading path to the files in the resulting tar archive. --remote=<repo> Instead of making a tar archive from local repository, retrieve a tar archive from a remote repository. CONFIGURATION
tar.umask This variable can be used to restrict the permission bits of tar archive entries. The default is 0002, which turns off the world write bit. The special value "user" indicates that the archiving user's umask will be used instead. See umask(2) for details. EXAMPLES
git tar-tree HEAD junk | (cd /var/tmp/ && tar xf -) Create a tar archive that contains the contents of the latest commit on the current branch, and extracts it in /var/tmp/junk directory. git tar-tree v1.4.0 git-1.4.0 | gzip >git-1.4.0.tar.gz Create a tarball for v1.4.0 release. git tar-tree v1.4.0^{tree} git-1.4.0 | gzip >git-1.4.0.tar.gz Create a tarball for v1.4.0 release, but without a global extended pax header. git tar-tree --remote=example.com:git.git v1.4.0 >git-1.4.0.tar Get a tarball v1.4.0 from example.com. git tar-tree HEAD:Documentation/ git-docs > git-1.4.0-docs.tar Put everything in the current head's Documentation/ directory into git-1.4.0-docs.tar, with the prefix git-docs/. GIT
Part of the git(1) suite Git 1.8.5.3 01/14/2014 GIT-TAR-TREE(1)
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