How about pax
The compression is not POSIX, but it should work almost everywhere.
Notice you cannot append to compressed archive with pax, if you require such feature.
Code:
pax -wzf ${STAGE}/mybackup.tar.gz ${LOG}
Will create compressed archive from ${LOG} directory (everything in it) into ${STAGE}/mybackup.tar.gz
It also supports to substitute paths inside archive in one go, and a lot more, in one line.
Check it out online or on these forums!
Hello all.
I have a tar file that contains a number of files that are stored in different directories.
If I extract this tar file with -xvf , the directories get created.
Is there a way to extract all of the files into one directory without creating the directories stored in the tar file. (9 Replies)
I have an interesting requirement. I have declaried an array like :-
arr=`find . ! -name "." | xargs -I {} echo {} | cut -c 2-${#}`
Then i will try to access the array elements like :-
i=0
for i in ${arr}; do
Here comes the confusions, the array elements are basically dir and files stored... (2 Replies)
hi,
I am in a weird situation. I have a parent tarball which contains 2 sub tarballs.
The structure is such :
Parent.tar.gz ---- > child1.tar.gz and child2.tar.gz
I need to get the size of the parent tarball without untaring it
I know that the command is gunzip -c parent.tar.gz | wc -c ... (1 Reply)
Hi,
I'm using a tar command
tar -xOvf /home/mytar.tar
My intention is to extract data in files which are inside various directories,
without extracting files to the disk.
Is this the best way to achieve it?
Thanks,
Chetan (3 Replies)
Hi,
I have tar filw which has multiple directories which contain files.
When i extract using tar -xf the directory structure also get extracted.
I require only files and not directory structures as there will be overhead of moving the files again.
So i searched here and got a solution but... (4 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)
#cat a
BAC064DAL
BAC063DAL
BAC056PHX
BAC066DAL
BAC062PHX
BAC062DAL
BAC060DAL
BAC058PHX
BAC054PHX
BAC051PHX
# for i in `cat a`
> do
> tar xvf $a/$a*.tar*
> done
tar: /*.tar*: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
tar: /*.tar*: Cannot... (3 Replies)
Hi,
uname -a
SunOS mymac 5.11 11.2 sun4u sparc SUNW,SPARC-Enterprise
I need to tar a folder /tmp/moht but do not want these three folders to be included in the tar file -> savejpg, bmpsave and imgsave
I tried --exclude, -path, -not options but it says bad option
Can you help me with... (3 Replies)
I have a tar file hello.tar which is 95 GB.
hello.tar has many files and folders including some tar files as well.
I wish to create a new tar ball which should maintain only the folder structure of hello.tar and the tar ball within the hello.tar
So basically the idea is to untar... (2 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)
Discussion started by: kmanivan82
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LEARN ABOUT FREEBSD
archive_write_set_format_pax
ARCHIVE_WRITE_FORMAT(3) BSD Library Functions Manual ARCHIVE_WRITE_FORMAT(3)NAME
archive_write_set_format_cpio, archive_write_set_format_pax, archive_write_set_format_pax_restricted, archive_write_set_format_shar,
archive_write_set_format_shar_dump, archive_write_set_format_ustar -- functions for creating archives
LIBRARY
Streaming Archive Library (libarchive, -larchive)
SYNOPSIS
#include <archive.h>
int
archive_write_set_format_cpio(struct archive *);
int
archive_write_set_format_pax(struct archive *);
int
archive_write_set_format_pax_restricted(struct archive *);
int
archive_write_set_format_shar(struct archive *);
int
archive_write_set_format_shar_dump(struct archive *);
int
archive_write_set_format_ustar(struct archive *);
DESCRIPTION
These functions set the format that will be used for the archive.
The library can write POSIX octet-oriented cpio format archives, POSIX-standard ``pax interchange'' format archives, traditional ``shar'' ar-
chives, enhanced ``dump'' shar archives that store a variety of file attributes and handle binary files, and POSIX-standard ``ustar'' ar-
chives. The pax interchange format is a backwards-compatible tar format that adds key/value attributes to each entry and supports arbitrary
filenames, linknames, uids, sizes, etc. ``Restricted pax interchange format'' is the library default; this is the same as pax format, but
suppresses the pax extended header for most normal files. In most cases, this will result in ordinary ustar archives.
RETURN VALUES
These functions return ARCHIVE_OK on success, or ARCHIVE_FATAL.
ERRORS
Detailed error codes and textual descriptions are available from the archive_errno() and archive_error_string() functions.
SEE ALSO tar(1), libarchive(3), archive_write(3), archive_write_set_options(3), cpio(5), mtree(5), tar(5)BSD February 2, 2012 BSD