The f and X options require the following two arguments.
The exclude file must absolutely match e.g. must be /jfma/test1//path/to/file; it is less confusing to omit the trailing slash, i.e. have /jfma/test1 and the exclude file /jfma/test1/path/to/file
I am talking of a standard tar - GNU tar has some default magic to strip leading and trailing slashes.
All in one go, tar to stdout and pipe this to compress:
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I'm new to the unix environment. I need to find out what parameters I need to use to save directory structure and the files underneath this directory AND how to restore this directory structure on another unix machine.
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I want to tar multiple folder from a environment but exclude 2 folders among them. How can I do that. Is there any exclude option in tar command.
Please co-operate me.
Thanking you,
Chandrakant. (8 Replies)
Hi all,
Can anyone please say me what exactly a 'tar' command does? From what all I know, its not basically a compression tool. But I have seen many used it for compression purpose.
If you have any links or any stuff which can help me better understand about 'tar', that will be greatly... (1 Reply)
Hi all,
4 files are returned when i issue 'find . -mtime -1 -type f -ls'.
./ora_475244.aud
./ora_671958.aud
./ora_934052.aud
./ora_934050.aud
However, when I issued the below command:
tar -cvf test.tar `find . -mtime -1 -type f`, the tar file only contains the 1st file -... (2 Replies)
Hi,
I am using the following DOS command to tar my .gz file from the command prompt
C:\tar\bin>tar -cf test.tar D:\Coim\*.gz
but this creates a tar file under the path C:\tar\bin\test.tar but i want the tar file to be created under D:\Coim\test.tar
Is there any option in tar command... (4 Replies)
HI,
if I have a tarfile called pmapdata.tar that contains
tar -tvf pmapdata.tar
-rw-r--r-- 0/0 21 Oct 15 11:00 2009 /var/tmp/pmapdata/pmap4628.txt
-rw-r--r-- 0/0 21 Oct 14 20:00 2009 /var/tmp/pmapdata/pmap23752.txt
-rw-r--r-- 0/0 1625 Oct 13 20:00 2009... (1 Reply)
Hi all,
I have a tar file and inside that tar file is a folder with additional tar.gz files. What I want to do is look inside the first tar file and then find the second tar file I'm looking for, look inside that tar.gz file to find a certain directory. I'm encountering issues by trying to... (1 Reply)
I have a tar file that contains multiple .Z files. Hence I need to issue a tar command followed by a gzip command to fully extract the files. How do I do it in a single command?
What I'm doing now is
tar xvf a.tar (this will output 1.Z and 2.Z)
gzip -d *.Z (to extract 1.Z and 2.Z) (9 Replies)
Is it possible to untar a file so it's size reduces while it uncompresses its contents. I have limited space on my mount point and was wondering if we can untar as a stream in other words the size of tarball reduces as it uncompresses the contents.
Thanks (5 Replies)
Hello Team,
Would you please help me with a UNIX command that would check if file is a tar file.
if we dont have that , can you help me with UNIX command that would check if file ends with .tar
Thanks in advance. (10 Replies)
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gpg-zip
GPG-ZIP(1) GNU Privacy Guard GPG-ZIP(1)NAME
gpg-zip - Encrypt or sign files into an archive
SYNOPSIS
gpg-zip [options] filename1 [ filename2, ... ] directory1 [ directory2, ... ]
DESCRIPTION
gpg-zip encrypts or signs files into an archive. It is an gpg-ized tar using the same format as used by PGP's PGP Zip.
OPTIONS
gpg-zip understands these options:
--encrypt
-e Encrypt data. This option may be combined with --symmetric (for output that may be decrypted via a secret key or a passphrase).
--decrypt
-d Decrypt data.
--symmetric
-c Encrypt with a symmetric cipher using a passphrase. The default symmetric cipher used is CAST5, but may be chosen with the
--cipher-algo option to gpg.
--sign
-s Make a signature. See gpg.
--recipient user
-r user
Encrypt for user id user. See gpg.
--local-user user
-u user
Use user as the key to sign with. See gpg.
--list-archive
List the contents of the specified archive.
--output file
-o file
Write output to specified file file.
--gpg gpgcmd
Use the specified command gpgcmd instead of gpg.
--gpg-args args
Pass the specified options to gpg.
--tar tarcmd
Use the specified command tarcmd instead of tar.
--tar-args args
Pass the specified options to tar.
--version
Print version of the program and exit.
--help Display a brief help page and exit.
EXAMPLES
Encrypt the contents of directory 'mydocs' for user Bob to file 'test1':
gpg-zip --encrypt --output test1 --gpg-args-r Bob mydocs
List the contents of archive 'test1':
gpg-zip --list-archive test1
DIAGNOSTICS
The program returns 0 if everything was fine, 1 otherwise.
SEE ALSO gpg(1), tar(1),
The full documentation for this tool is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If GnuPG and the info program are properly installed at your site,
the command
info gnupg
should give you access to the complete manual including a menu structure and an index.
GnuPG 2.0.15 2010-07-05 GPG-ZIP(1)