How about this - assumption is you have password-less ssh working to the dest server, which may or may-not be the same server your source folder exists on.
Code:
cd /source
tar czf - * | ssh user@dest 'cd /target; tar xzfp -'
Folks,
I've created a tar file on tape using:
tar xvf /dev/rmt0
The directory I was in was:
\IMPULS\F50D01\temperik
under temperik the tar command created subdirectories.
I need too BACKUP these subdirectories again and restore them on another machine,
But when i'm going to... (10 Replies)
I created a relative backup of my home directory using tar into a file named backup.tar.
No problem there.
I checked it out using the table of contents command to list the contents of the backup.tar file, and there is no problem there either.
But, when I tried restoring backup.tar into a... (2 Replies)
Unix is great at giving you power were you need it, but what a pain in the rump when you just want to do such a simple thing like file management. I'm going back to Windows, crashing is frustrating, needing to spend 30 min just to zip a file up is crazy. (3 Replies)
Hi,
I have a simple question. How do I get a tar of all the files under specific directory which are created on some specific date?
Suppose I am in /home/user123/logs. I need the tar of all the logs which are created on May 07. There are some 30 files of that date. Please help.
Thanks. (2 Replies)
Hi all,
My examples.tar has about 20 directories. I don't want to un-tar the entire examples.tar. Is there a way to un-tar just a directory named "java" from examples.tar?
Please let me know
JAK (2 Replies)
Hi
I did this command to tar the files but I got an error.
tar -cvpf filename.tar pathname/
It did tar the file filename.tar but then it gave me this error "Reach end of file before expected". The new tar file is about 2GB. So does that mean my tar file limit is 2GB? Is there a max limit... (4 Replies)
Hi all,
4 files are returned when i issue 'find . -mtime -1 -type f -ls'.
./ora_475244.aud
./ora_671958.aud
./ora_934052.aud
./ora_934050.aud
However, when I issued the below command:
tar -cvf test.tar `find . -mtime -1 -type f`, the tar file only contains the 1st file -... (2 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)
I am writing a perl script to tar multiple files (in unix) from a given directory to a given output directory. I do NOT want the file path included in the tar, so I've flagged the -C option. Example:
tar -cvf tar/1.tar -C htmp/source/ 1-1-1.xml
However, I need to do this for a number of target... (3 Replies)
I wish my tar -xf hello.tar command should return successful even if the tar has already been extracted at the same location i.e. exists by the same or a different user.
Currently i am getting this error as another user has extracted the same tar at the same location.
tar: README - cannot... (6 Replies)
Discussion started by: mohtashims
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file-roller(1) General Commands Manual file-roller(1)NAME
file-roller - archive manager for GNOME
SYNOPSIS
file-roller [OPTIONS...] [FILE...]
DESCRIPTION
File Roller is a graphical interface to archiving utilities such as tar and zip.
It supports most common operations such as creating, modifing and extracting files from an archive. You can also view the contents of an
archive and open files contained in the archive.
OPTIONS -a, --add-to=ARCHIVE
Add files to the specified archive and quit the program
-d, --add FILE
Add files asking the name of the archive and quit the program
-e, --extract-to=FOLDER
Extract archives to the specified folder and quit the program
-f, --extract
Extract archives asking the destination folder and quit the program
-h, --extract-here
Extract archives using the archive name as destination folder and quit the program
--default-dir=FOLDER
Default folder to use for the '--add' and '--extract' commands
--force
Create destination folder without asking confirmation
This program also accepts the standard GNOME and GTK options.
AUTHORS
file-roller is written by Paolo Bacchilega <paolo.bacch@tin.it>.
This manual page was written by Sven Arvidsson <sa@whiz.se>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others).
SEE ALSO gtk-options(7), gnome-options(7)
The online documentation available through the program's Help menu.
GNOME 2007-09-27 file-roller(1)