Hi folks,
When I am extracting an archive using the:
tar -xvf /dev/rmt0 command i get the following error:
x ./GRBD8901/GRBR006T, 1763253368 bytes, 3443855 media blocks.
tar: 0511-197 ./GRBD8901/GRBR006T: Cannot write data extracted with the tar command: ... (7 Replies)
hi
could any body tell me how to extract .tar.bz2 files
i tried using tar but in vain.
i found bzip2 in googling but i could not find it on machine unix tru64
please suggest. (1 Reply)
Dear experts
I have received a tar file containing several files with full path. Now I need to restore it in another system but when I want to extract files by using
tar -xvf tarfile
it wants to create all files with full paths again in new system in which I don't have enough previleges.
How... (4 Replies)
Can I extract files from an archive file (tar), where the filename includes the full directory path, to a different directory?
For example the archive files may have a filename of
/SrcFiles/XXX/filename.dat
and I want to extract it to /SrcFiles/YYY/filename.dat. Since the archive file... (1 Reply)
Can I extract files from an archive file (tar), where the filename includes the full directory path, to a different directory?
For example the archive files may have a filename of
/SrcFiles/XXX/filename.dat
and I want to extract it to /SrcFiles/YYY/filename.dat. Since the archive file was... (1 Reply)
forgive my ignorance.
I did a search of this sub-forum for "tar -xp" and variations on the same w\out success, so here goes...
Scenario:
filename.tar file.
Desired Task:
I want to be able to extract only files from the user's public_html folder (and all those under it as an option) from... (4 Replies)
Hey guys complete n00b here so I'll try my best at explaining.
I'm creating a backup and restore utility and decided to use tar. I create a backup folder in each user's account and when backing up (say word processing files), I use the following:
tar cvf /home/user/backup/wpbackup.tar... (2 Replies)
Hi
Somebody must have done this before, but I can't seem to find any answer on my problem.
On HP-UX 11i v3 I have a relatively large tar ball (~120 GB), and I want to create the directory structure only from the archive.
There is no option to make a new archive with only the directory... (3 Replies)
Hi
I have a few hundred files with extension .tar.Z. These files were archived (tar) and compressed (Z) on a UNIX system. I need to unzip them but not extract them. In other words they need to go to .tar extension. I would like to do this on my MAC or on a windows pc. I do not have a UNIX... (3 Replies)
I have a directory tree containing archive .tar.gz files that I want to extract at the location where they recide.
How can I achieve such an operation? (7 Replies)
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archive::tar::file
Archive::Tar::File(3perl) Perl Programmers Reference Guide Archive::Tar::File(3perl)NAME
Archive::Tar::File - a subclass for in-memory extracted file from Archive::Tar
SYNOPSIS
my @items = $tar->get_files;
print $_->name, ' ', $_->size, "
" for @items;
print $object->get_content;
$object->replace_content('new content');
$object->rename( 'new/full/path/to/file.c' );
DESCRIPTION
Archive::Tar::Files provides a neat little object layer for in-memory extracted files. It's mostly used internally in Archive::Tar to tidy
up the code, but there's no reason users shouldn't use this API as well.
Accessors
A lot of the methods in this package are accessors to the various fields in the tar header:
name
The file's name
mode
The file's mode
uid The user id owning the file
gid The group id owning the file
size
File size in bytes
mtime
Modification time. Adjusted to mac-time on MacOS if required
chksum
Checksum field for the tar header
type
File type -- numeric, but comparable to exported constants -- see Archive::Tar's documentation
linkname
If the file is a symlink, the file it's pointing to
magic
Tar magic string -- not useful for most users
version
Tar version string -- not useful for most users
uname
The user name that owns the file
gname
The group name that owns the file
devmajor
Device major number in case of a special file
devminor
Device minor number in case of a special file
prefix
Any directory to prefix to the extraction path, if any
raw Raw tar header -- not useful for most users
Methods
Archive::Tar::File->new( file => $path )
Returns a new Archive::Tar::File object from an existing file.
Returns undef on failure.
Archive::Tar::File->new( data => $path, $data, $opt )
Returns a new Archive::Tar::File object from data.
$path defines the file name (which need not exist), $data the file contents, and $opt is a reference to a hash of attributes which may be
used to override the default attributes (fields in the tar header), which are described above in the Accessors section.
Returns undef on failure.
Archive::Tar::File->new( chunk => $chunk )
Returns a new Archive::Tar::File object from a raw 512-byte tar archive chunk.
Returns undef on failure.
$bool = $file->extract( [ $alternative_name ] )
Extract this object, optionally to an alternative name.
See "Archive::Tar->extract_file" for details.
Returns true on success and false on failure.
$path = $file->full_path
Returns the full path from the tar header; this is basically a concatenation of the "prefix" and "name" fields.
$bool = $file->validate
Done by Archive::Tar internally when reading the tar file: validate the header against the checksum to ensure integer tar file.
Returns true on success, false on failure
$bool = $file->has_content
Returns a boolean to indicate whether the current object has content. Some special files like directories and so on never will have any
content. This method is mainly to make sure you don't get warnings for using uninitialized values when looking at an object's content.
$content = $file->get_content
Returns the current content for the in-memory file
$cref = $file->get_content_by_ref
Returns the current content for the in-memory file as a scalar reference. Normal users won't need this, but it will save memory if you are
dealing with very large data files in your tar archive, since it will pass the contents by reference, rather than make a copy of it first.
$bool = $file->replace_content( $content )
Replace the current content of the file with the new content. This only affects the in-memory archive, not the on-disk version until you
write it.
Returns true on success, false on failure.
$bool = $file->rename( $new_name )
Rename the current file to $new_name.
Note that you must specify a Unix path for $new_name, since per tar standard, all files in the archive must be Unix paths.
Returns true on success and false on failure.
Convenience methods
To quickly check the type of a "Archive::Tar::File" object, you can use the following methods:
$file->is_file
Returns true if the file is of type "file"
$file->is_dir
Returns true if the file is of type "dir"
$file->is_hardlink
Returns true if the file is of type "hardlink"
$file->is_symlink
Returns true if the file is of type "symlink"
$file->is_chardev
Returns true if the file is of type "chardev"
$file->is_blockdev
Returns true if the file is of type "blockdev"
$file->is_fifo
Returns true if the file is of type "fifo"
$file->is_socket
Returns true if the file is of type "socket"
$file->is_longlink
Returns true if the file is of type "LongLink". Should not happen after a successful "read".
$file->is_label
Returns true if the file is of type "Label". Should not happen after a successful "read".
$file->is_unknown
Returns true if the file type is "unknown"
perl v5.14.2 2011-09-26 Archive::Tar::File(3perl)