1. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Dear People I have removed some of my files and directories( by using rm and rmdir commands) by mistake. I wish to bring them back. How is it possible?( I am using solaris 2.6) best regards Reza Nazarian:( (2 Replies)

2. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Howdy, I'm trying to tar some directories to tape and then extract them from tape on another machine. I was hoping someone could help me with the syntax of the tar commands. Both machines are running Solaris 8. Need to get all files and directories under the following: ... (6 Replies)

3. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users

Hi all, How to untar a file with .tar.tar extension. A utility that i downloaded from net had this extension. Thanks in advance, bubeshj. (6 Replies)

4. Filesystems, Disks and Memory

Can I back up all the files I work with each day using tar? (2 Replies)

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hell All! I need help writing a script for my job. I never really wrote alot of scripts but I guess it a first time for everything. I need to write a simple script that goes out to our log file directory on our servers and tar and compress them. I need to know how to add an date time stamp to tell... (5 Replies)

6. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users

Hi, On my Unix Server in my directory, I have 70 files distributed in the following directories (which have several other files too). These files include C Source Files, Shell Script Source Files, Binary Files, Object Files. a) /usr/users/oracle/bin b) /usr/users/oracle... (1 Reply)

7. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

hi all using unix (hp-ux) i created patches Directory under /tmp ... inside the /tmp, i fired these commands: # mv patch_file1 /patches # mv patch_file2 /patches there was no error then i realized that this command will move the files to patches Dir on the root which was NOT... (2 Replies)

8. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users

Hi, I want to identify the files that are recently modified or with in a specified period (15 Days) in UNIX box. After identifying the files should be transferred to windows machine through FTP. The files should be overwritten in windows if it is already available. Please help... (1 Reply)

9. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

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)

10. Shell Programming and Scripting

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)