I need to create a tar file with a list of files from a directory.
The directory has about 1000+ files of which I only need to create a tar ball of 150 files. The 150 files I need in the tar ball do not have common names or a common start letter.
No two file names match, example: 1st file name can be metrics.txt, 2nd file name can be avaerage,txt . etc ......
I need to know if I can make use of while or for loop and keep adding file to the tar ball.
So I would like to do something like:
1) put all the 150 file names into a list.txt
2) go to the directory where these files are available
3) write a while or for loop
Is this something achievable or is the best way to achieve is:to copy the 150 files into another directory and then tar that directory.
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I'm trying to make incremental tar archives of a folder for an example. On the box I use is UNIX AIX installed. I tried some sample codes I found on several web pages but with no success. Don't know what I'm doing wrong. Please write some sample code to make incremental tar... (0 Replies)
Incremental Backup using TAR in sco Openserver 5.0
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I am using sco openserver 5.0. I wanted to take backup of two folder (each 600 MB size) with lot of files. I used to take backup using tar command daily using a script. But the same takes more time. Is there any way to take backup... (0 Replies)
Hello, I'm quite new to HP-UX and I stumbeled upon some strange behaviour from tar.
I have a script like this:
find -mtime $days -type f|xargs tar cvf tarfile.tar
and it make me a tar file with files that has been changed in $days.
When i run 'tar tf tarfile.tar' it give me output like... (5 Replies)
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)
I'm trying to do a incremental backup for a big NFS. Since space is not an issue, I don't want to compress them or end up with a big tarball for full backup( and a series of small tarballs for incremental backup). Basically I want the TAR backup/restore functionality but not TAR files up.... (3 Replies)
I m planning to use puppet to implement organizational linux hardening policies across the linux servers.
To begin with i have downloaded.
puppet-2.7.1.tar.gz and tried some basic configuration to get start with puppet.
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Following are the list of files available in the dataout directory
a1.txt.gz
a2.txt.gz
b3.txt.gzStep 1:
now the tar file needs to be created as follows.
tar -cvf ab.tar *.gzAll the files with extn .gzg has to be bundled in the tar file.
Once the tar file is created, the files which are... (9 Replies)
Hi,
the folder /home/nandy/test will have two files called
notepad1
nodepad2
when i issued
/home/nandy/test> tar -cvf componse.tar ./notepad1 ./notepad2 and no error
/home/nandy/test> tar -cvf nan.tar . --> this creates nan.tar with the below message
nan.tar same... (1 Reply)
Hi everyone;
I need to create a shell script for full and incremental backup purposes. for incremental backup only for one folder (test1) located in /home/test1 syntax below works fine and have no problem: tar -cvf /home/backup/backup-0.tar.gz -g /home/test1/test.snar /home/test Problem is here... (5 Replies)
Hi Team,
Following unix command is throwing error. Can anyone please help me to fix the issue?
tar -cvf /aa/bb/cc/tarball1.tar /x/y/z1/abc.ksh /x/y/z2/pqr.txt /x/y/z3/lmn.tmp
Error message thrown:
tar: Removing leading `/' from member names
OS: uname -a
Linux xyz... (1 Reply)
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LEARN ABOUT V7
tar
TAR(1) General Commands Manual TAR(1)NAME
tar - tape archiver
SYNOPSIS
tar [ key ] [ name ... ]
DESCRIPTION
Tar saves and restores files on magtape. Its actions are controlled by the key argument. The key is a string of characters containing at
most one function letter and possibly one or more function modifiers. Other arguments to the command are file or directory names specify-
ing which files are to be dumped or restored. In all cases, appearance of a directory name refers to the files and (recursively) subdirec-
tories of that directory.
The function portion of the key is specified by one of the following letters:
r The named files are written on the end of the tape. The c function implies this.
x The named files are extracted from the tape. If the named file matches a directory whose contents had been written onto the tape,
this directory is (recursively) extracted. The owner, modification time, and mode are restored (if possible). If no file argument
is given, the entire content of the tape is extracted. Note that if multiple entries specifying the same file are on the tape, the
last one overwrites all earlier.
t The names of the specified files are listed each time they occur on the tape. If no file argument is given, all of the names on
the tape are listed.
u The named files are added to the tape if either they are not already there or have been modified since last put on the tape.
c Create a new tape; writing begins on the beginning of the tape instead of after the last file. This command implies r.
The following characters may be used in addition to the letter which selects the function desired.
0,...,7 This modifier selects the drive on which the tape is mounted. The default is 1.
v Normally tar does its work silently. The v (verbose) option causes it to type the name of each file it treats preceded by the
function letter. With the t function, v gives more information about the tape entries than just the name.
w causes tar to print the action to be taken followed by file name, then wait for user confirmation. If a word beginning with `y'
is given, the action is performed. Any other input means don't do it.
f causes tar to use the next argument as the name of the archive instead of /dev/mt?. If the name of the file is `-', tar writes
to standard output or reads from standard input, whichever is appropriate. Thus, tar can be used as the head or tail of a filter
chain Tar can also be used to move hierarchies with the command
cd fromdir; tar cf - . | (cd todir; tar xf -)
b causes tar to use the next argument as the blocking factor for tape records. The default is 1, the maximum is 20. This option
should only be used with raw magnetic tape archives (See f above). The block size is determined automatically when reading tapes
(key letters `x' and `t').
l tells tar to complain if it cannot resolve all of the links to the files dumped. If this is not specified, no error messages are
printed.
m tells tar to not restore the modification times. The mod time will be the time of extraction.
FILES
/dev/mt?
/tmp/tar*
DIAGNOSTICS
Complaints about bad key characters and tape read/write errors.
Complaints if enough memory is not available to hold the link tables.
BUGS
There is no way to ask for the n-th occurrence of a file.
Tape errors are handled ungracefully.
The u option can be slow.
The b option should not be used with archives that are going to be updated. The current magtape driver cannot backspace raw magtape. If
the archive is on a disk file the b option should not be used at all, as updating an archive stored in this manner can destroy it.
The current limit on file name length is 100 characters.
TAR(1)