anyone know if it is possable to extract a subdirectory in a tar file.
IE
tarfile contains
parent dir
-sub dir A
-sub dir B
I want to extract sub dir B. (2 Replies)
In order to save diskspace and avoid of disk full during
unzip then extract the tar file
is there any tar unzip command would unzip and extract tar at the same time
(test123.tar.gz)
thank in advance (6 Replies)
Hi,
This is my first post here - I'm hoping I can get some help! I have searched these forums and othersand not getting anything that works.
I am trying to extract a single file from a tar archive to a diffierent location than it will default to.
For example my tar log shows me ...
a... (3 Replies)
Hi,
I want to view/display the contents of one file in tar file.
For example if the tar file is sam.tar.gz and one of the file inside is E1.txt, how do i view the contents of this E1.txt file.
Olso if I want to extract the E1.txt file only from sam.tar.gz how can i do that.
Thanks in... (7 Replies)
Hello
I take a backup using the following command on Solaris 9
tar cvf /dev/rmt/0n data
the data volume contains a number of files say a, b, c , d ... etc
Now I want to restore only one file (eg b) from the data volume.
When I issue the command
tar xvf /dev/rmt/0n data/b... (1 Reply)
I would like to confirm my file.tar is been tar-ed correctly before I remove them. But I have very limited disc space to untar it.
Can I just do the listing instead of actual extract it? Can I say confirm folder integrity if the listing is sucessful without problem?
tar tvf file1.tar
... (1 Reply)
Hi all,
In Solaris howto extract tar file to specific folder.
This is what we do in Linux, but how to do the same thing in Solaris ?
-tar -xzvf /tmp/etc.tar.bz -C /tmp
(Will extract in /tmp dir)
3.gzip COMPRESSION AND EXTRACTION
-tar -czvf /tmp/etc.tar.bz /etc
-du ... (5 Replies)
Quick question,
is it possible to make a Tar of completely directory and placing the tar file in it (will this cause even the tar file to tarred ?)
sample:
/opt/freeware/bin/tar -cvf - /oracle | gzip > /oracle/backup.tgz
will the tar file backup.tgz also include backup.tgz ?
i tried... (5 Replies)
I was looking at this tutorial for tar extract Z file. Is there a reason why this did not work? I checked my man pages and it had a -Z option.
tar -xZvf /opt/Nimsoft/nimldr.tar.Z
tar (child): compress: Cannot exec: No such file or directory
tar (child): Error is not recoverable: exiting now... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: cokedude
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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)