Just means that tar removes the leading "/" because when you tar the files, it will be relative to the directory where you untar the files.
If you untar a file and the archive contained the leading "/" then you would not have control over where the file is untarred, and then you might overwrite an exiting file by accident
I'm having an issue with a problem
A problem with this backup script is that if you backup the same file twice, you may get a warning message because you're overwriting an existing file. You could suppress the warning message, but a better solution is to save a series of backups distinguished by... (1 Reply)
am writing my very first shell script and need some assistance. What I need help on is three things in particular.
1) Do I need to use the sleep function after the tar command or does the script know to wait until tar finishes to move on to the next line?
2) Did I populate the variable DATE... (4 Replies)
Hello all,
I am trying to backup my system database and root filesystem on remote server that is mounted on my system using tar command.
For the database, i use (cd /database; tar cvf file.tar .)
for the Root filesystem, i use (cd /; tar uEvf file.tar .)
both are to be backup on the same... (1 Reply)
Hi,
I am a linux newbie and I dont have any knowledge on scripting but this is my urgent requirement. I am suppose to write a backup script for 2 of my servers, could someone help me out please. below is my requirement
Mail Server 1 : 10.0.0.1 Mail Server 2 : 10.0.0.2 Backup Server... (6 Replies)
HI all, im new to shell scripting. need your guidence for my script. i wrote one script and is attached here
Im explaining the requirement of script.
AIM: Shell script to run automatically as per scheduled and backup few network devices configurations. Script will contain a set of commands... (4 Replies)
i need to print the first date of the previous month in 20130101 format.
i use the below script
month_year=$(date +'%m%Y' | awk '!--$1{$1=12;$2--}')
m=${month_year% *}
y=$month_year##* }
d=$(cal $m $y | paste -s - | awk '{print $NF}')
firstdate=${printf '02d01%s' $y $m)
echo $firstdate
... (1 Reply)
Hello All,
I need immediate help in creating shell script to call archivebkup.ksh script when archive file system capacity reaches threshold value or 60%
Need to identify the unique file system that reaches threshold value.
ex:
capacity
... (4 Replies)
Dear friends, I need your help.
I need to create a bash script which can loop through $source_dir once a month, and find the backup of the last day of a given month for each of the 2 file types, as can be seen below.
Assume that source_dir="/backup/daily"
Assume that... (1 Reply)
hello guys
i am new and i am using Solaris 8 as operating system. i have some CD and i want to install the data from it. Package and patches. Which command shall i use?
thanks (3 Replies)
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PTARGREP(1) User Contributed Perl Documentation PTARGREP(1)NAME
ptargrep - Apply pattern matching to the contents of files in a tar archive
SYNOPSIS
ptargrep [options] <pattern> <tar file> ...
Options:
--basename|-b ignore directory paths from archive
--ignore-case|-i do case-insensitive pattern matching
--list-only|-l list matching filenames rather than extracting matches
--verbose|-v write debugging message to STDERR
--help|-? detailed help message
DESCRIPTION
This utility allows you to apply pattern matching to the contents of files contained in a tar archive. You might use this to identify all
files in an archive which contain lines matching the specified pattern and either print out the pathnames or extract the files.
The pattern will be used as a Perl regular expression (as opposed to a simple grep regex).
Multiple tar archive filenames can be specified - they will each be processed in turn.
OPTIONS --basename (alias -b)
When matching files are extracted, ignore the directory path from the archive and write to the current directory using the basename of
the file from the archive. Beware: if two matching files in the archive have the same basename, the second file extracted will
overwrite the first.
--ignore-case (alias -i)
Make pattern matching case-insensitive.
--list-only (alias -l)
Print the pathname of each matching file from the archive to STDOUT. Without this option, the default behaviour is to extract each
matching file.
--verbose (alias -v)
Log debugging info to STDERR.
--help (alias -?)
Display this documentation.
COPYRIGHT
Copyright 2010 Grant McLean <grantm@cpan.org>
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.
perl v5.16.3 2013-05-12 PTARGREP(1)