Well, from what I gather, you want to create a broken tar file to test your script. Is that right? You could do a quick search and find out more pages like this one here.
Or you could use the exit status variable $? to determine if the untar is a success or not.
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I have a tar file where the files have been tar'd along with the location of the file i.e
/opt/abc/file.txt
/opt/abc/file2.txt
I am trying to untar this file on a different server where /opt/abc does not exist.
How do I untar these files without the tar trying to create the structure... (3 Replies)
HI UNIX GURUS...
I am facing the a similar problem which malaymaru has posted earlier raegarding untaring a file in some other specified directory.But the solution by UNIX DAEMON "Perderabo" seems little difficult to understand.(USING #pax -r -s '=^/opt/abc=/tmp=' < tarfile)
So plz explain... (4 Replies)
I have file1.tar and want to untar it under /server/file2.
If I do tar -xvf file1.tar, the files will be deployed under file1.
How to specify the destination folder??
thx (3 Replies)
i have try to untar the file in same location. But it gave the error
# tar -xvf TSMSRVAIX5220.tar
x tivoli.tsm.devices.acsls, 757760 bytes, 1480 media blocks.
tar: 0511-169 A directory checksum error on media; 4011 not equal to 8222.
How can i rectify this prob.
Thanks in advance
... (2 Replies)
I need to upload tar or zip files to a unix server than unzip or untar them remotely. Any suggestions on the easiest way to do the remote untar or unzip? For example does someone know of a cgi script or something?
Thanks -jz (3 Replies)
Hi,
How can i untar a set of files in to different directory.
This is content
tar -tvf samba.tar
drwxrwxrwx 0 0 0 Nov 28 18:35:41 2008 samba/
-rw-r--r-- 0 0 0 Nov 18 15:12:40 2008 samba/b.txt
-rw-r--r-- 0 0 0 Nov 18 15:12:40 2008 samba/c.txt
-rw-r--r-- 0... (4 Replies)
hello
i want shell script.
i have a source.txt
/home/user409/public_html/test/
/home/user09876/public_html/xdsss/
/home/user9765/public_html/320xxx/
.
.
.
maybe 1000 lines
i want .
1.read a source.txt
2.untar special.tar.gz into these directory in source.txt
3.i want to... (14 Replies)
Hello Experts,
I have requirement in which a file is present in the folder_test. In that folder there is file called Test.tar.gz.20111102. Now my requirement is i have to rename this file to someother format and untar it....
folder_test
Test.tar.gz.20111102
I am using the below... (5 Replies)
Hi,
I have been trying to untar this file hello.tar which consists of 3 files but nothing happens:
eux750{root}# tar -xvf hello.tar
x /hello, 8405 bytes, 17 tape blocks
Why am I not able to see the untarred files.:wall:
Thanks to help! (2 Replies)
I need to extract the below file.
could you please let me know how to extract by using unix command.
manfucture.today.1678.tar.gz (5 Replies)
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virt-tar-out
virt-tar-out(1) Virtualization Support virt-tar-out(1)NAME
virt-tar-out - Pack a virtual machine disk image directory into a tarball.
SYNOPSIS
virt-tar-out -a disk.img /dir files.tar
virt-tar-out -d domain /dir files.tar
virt-tar-out -d domain /dir - | gzip --best > files.tar.gz
DESCRIPTION
"virt-tar-out" packs a virtual machine disk image directory into a tarball.
The first parameter is the absolute path of the virtual machine directory. The second parameter is the tar file to write. Use "-" to
write to standard output.
EXAMPLES
Download the home directories from a guest:
virt-tar-out -d MyGuest /home - | gzip --best > homes.tar.gz
JUST A SHELL SCRIPT WRAPPER AROUND GUESTFISH
This command is just a simple shell script wrapper around the guestfish(1) "tar-out" command. For anything more complex than a trivial
copy, you are probably better off using guestfish directly.
OPTIONS
Since the shell script just passes options straight to guestfish, read guestfish(1) to see the full list of options.
SEE ALSO guestfish(1), virt-cat(1), virt-copy-in(1), virt-copy-out(1), virt-edit(1), virt-tar-in(1), <http://libguestfs.org/>.
AUTHORS
Richard W.M. Jones ("rjones at redhat dot com")
COPYRIGHT
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This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
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MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation,
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