I don't think you can use a wildcard when extracting as the shell would have nothing to match against before passing it to the tar command. You may need to have a two-step process:-
one pass with tar -t to get all files and use grep to filter out the filenames you want
seconds pass to extract the files you have determined are present in each tarfile.
It seems a little wasteful, but it should work. When it's working for a single tarfile, just put it in a loop for all the tarfiles.
I may be wrong though. What happens if you wrap the filename with the * in single quotes like this?
This would pass the literal text including the * through to the tar command and might work.
If a zip file contains several zip files, but if the file names of the files needed are known, is there a variation of the unzip command that will allow those few (individual) files to be extracted?
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Example:
Zip file name: zip.zip
unzip -l zip.zip will display file01, file02, file03, etc.... (1 Reply)
Hello
I have a ton of files in a directory of the format app.log.2008-04-04
I'd like to run a command that would archive each of these files as app.log.2008-04-04.tgz
I tried a few combinations of find with xargs etc but no luck.
Thanks
Amit (4 Replies)
Can anyone please let me know how do I reduce files into a specific number of files by cat'ing files?
For example:
15 files must be reduced to 1 or 5 or 9 (possible values 1 to 14) (5 Replies)
I have tried:
tar -xfv mytarfile.tar archive/tabv/*
tar -xfv mytarfile.tar --wildcards 'archive/tabv/*'
tar -xf mytarfile.tar -v --wildcards 'archive/tabv/*'
tar -xfv mytarfile.tar --wildcards --no-anchored 'archive/tabv/*'
tar -xfv mytarfile.tar --wildcards `archive/tabv/*`
and none... (5 Replies)
Hi Everyone,
I'm really new to all this so I'm really hoping someone can help. I have a directory with ~1000 lists from which I want to extract lines from and write to new files. For simplicity lets say they are shopping lists and I want to write out the lines corresponding to apples to a new... (2 Replies)
Hello there,
I am trying to extract (string) information ( a list words) from 4 files and then put the results into 1 file. Currently I am doing this using grep -f list.txt file1 . and repeat the process for the other 3 files. The reasons i am doing that (a) I do know how to code (b) each file... (4 Replies)
Hi, I need to create weekly files from daily records stored in individual monthly filenames from 1999-2010. my sample file structure is like the ones below:
daily record stored per month:
199901.xyz, 199902.xyz, 199903.xyz, 199904.xyz ...199912.xyz
records inside 199901.xyz (original data... (4 Replies)
Hi,
Can somebody help me?
I am testing a demo with the given function
PATH525="/uscms/home/emily/READme/extra/data/"
TEMP=temp
FileName=DataFileName
CopyFiles() {
# PATHNAME="$paths" ... (9 Replies)
I have a series of csv files in the following format
eg file1
Experiment Name,XYZ_07/28/15,
Specimen Name,Specimen_001,
Tube Name, Control,
Record Date,7/28/2015 14:50,
$OP,XYZYZ,
GUID,abc,
Population,#Events,%Parent
All Events,10500,
P1,10071,95.9
Early Apoptosis,1113,11.1
Late... (6 Replies)
hello
i wish to write the result of these below conditions in a file:
1. in a specific folder, i have many tar.gz files.
2. each tar.gz file contains ".dat" file in sub folders.
3. i wish to get the full path of these .dat files, if i find in it a specific word ("ERROR24").
4. all this... (6 Replies)
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LEARN ABOUT NETBSD
uudecode
UUENCODE(1) BSD General Commands Manual UUENCODE(1)NAME
uuencode, uudecode -- encode/decode a binary file
SYNOPSIS
uuencode [-m] [inputfile] outputname
uudecode [-m | -p] [encoded-file ...]
DESCRIPTION
uuencode and uudecode are used to transmit binary files over transmission mediums that do not support other than simple ASCII data.
The following options are available:
-m Use base64 encoding.
uuencode reads inputfile (or by default the standard input) and writes an encoded version to the standard output. The encoding uses only
printing ASCII characters and includes the mode of the file and the operand outputname for use by uudecode.
uudecode transforms uuencoded files (or by default, the standard input) into the original form. The resulting file is named outputname as
recorded in the encoded file, and will have the mode of the original file except that setuid and execute bits are not retained; if the -p
option is specified, the data will be written to the standard output instead. uudecode ignores any leading and trailing lines.
EXIT STATUS
The uudecode and uuencode utilities exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.
EXAMPLES
The following example packages up a source tree, compresses it, uuencodes it and mails it to a user on another system.
tar czf - src_tree | uuencode src_tree.tgz | mail user@example.com
On the other system, if the user saves the mail to the file temp, the following example creates the file src_tree.tgz and extracts it to make
a copy of the original tree.
uudecode temp
tar xzf src_tree.tgz
SEE ALSO gzip(1), mail(1), tar(1), uuencode(5)STANDARDS
The uudecode and uuencode utilities conform to IEEE Std 1003.2-1992 (``POSIX.2'').
HISTORY
The uudecode and uuencode utilities appeared in 4.0BSD.
BUGS
The encoded form of the file is expanded by 35% (3 bytes become 4 plus control information).
BSD November 30, 2008 BSD