GNU Zip will decompress .Z files, so
or
should work without having to install the compress utility. It may even be possible to use GNU Zip through tar with the lower-case-z option:
Andrew
hi everyone
i have a tar file which was in AIX box. its 300mb.
i cant untar in windowsxp home. I just get an empty folder with no files when i extract. i dont get any bad header or any such error.
i am using IZARC which is a freeware. Not sure if i should try winzip or winrar.
any help (2 Replies)
Hi,
This is my first post here - I'm hoping I can get some help! I have searched these forums and othersand not getting anything that works.
I am trying to extract a single file from a tar archive to a diffierent location than it will default to.
For example my tar log shows me ...
a... (3 Replies)
Hi,
I want to view/display the contents of one file in tar file.
For example if the tar file is sam.tar.gz and one of the file inside is E1.txt, how do i view the contents of this E1.txt file.
Olso if I want to extract the E1.txt file only from sam.tar.gz how can i do that.
Thanks in... (7 Replies)
Hi ,
I need to extarct only a particulay files from the tar.Z.
ie
i need to extract one.txt from test.tar.Z.
The test.tar.Z may contain lot of file and folders.
Please help me to extract particular file to some location.
Regards,
Kalai. (1 Reply)
Hi,
Hi recently downloaded the source code from Advanced Programming in the Unix Envrionment 2e and extracted the source from its tar file. The extracted files have these characteristics:
1) They can can be seen in a directory listing and brought up for viewing in emacs;
2) They cannot be... (2 Replies)
I would like to confirm my file.tar is been tar-ed correctly before I remove them. But I have very limited disc space to untar it.
Can I just do the listing instead of actual extract it? Can I say confirm folder integrity if the listing is sucessful without problem?
tar tvf file1.tar
... (1 Reply)
Hi all,
In Solaris howto extract tar file to specific folder.
This is what we do in Linux, but how to do the same thing in Solaris ?
-tar -xzvf /tmp/etc.tar.bz -C /tmp
(Will extract in /tmp dir)
3.gzip COMPRESSION AND EXTRACTION
-tar -czvf /tmp/etc.tar.bz /etc
-du ... (5 Replies)
Hi Guys,
Could you please help to get specific files from /di/data/prd/serial/lookup/abetlp11_lookup_20180206.tar.lzo without extracting whole compressed file tar.lzo as its size is huge
file name - xyz.lkp
Thanks (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: himanshupant
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tar
tar(4) Kernel Interfaces Manual tar(4)NAME
tar - format of tar tape archive
DESCRIPTION
The header structure produced by (see tar(1)) is as follows (the array size defined by the constants is shown on the right):
All characters are represented in ASCII. There is no padding used in the header block; all fields are contiguous.
The fields magic, uname, and gname are null-terminated character strings. The fields name, linkname, and prefix are null-terminated char-
acter strings except when all characters in the array contain non-null characters, including the last character. The version field is two
bytes containing the characters (zero-zero). The typeflag contains a single character. All other fields are leading-zero-filled octal
numbers in ASCII. Each numeric field is terminated by one or more space or null characters.
The name and the prefix fields produce the pathname of the file. The hierarchical relationship of the file is retained by specifying the
pathname as a path prefix, with a slash character and filename as the suffix. If the prefix contains non-null characters, prefix, a slash
character, and name are concatenated without modification or addition of new characters to produce a new pathname. In this manner, path-
names of at most 256 characters can be supported. If a pathname does not fit in the space provided, the format-creating utility notifies
the user of the error, and no attempt is made to store any part of the file, header, or data on the medium.
SEE ALSO tar(1)STANDARDS CONFORMANCE tar(4)