dear Linux expert,
I am using Fedora R5
how to use tar to archive /var to a test_var.tar and compressing it?
how to delete a user? just remove the line in /etc/passwd?
and then what is the procedure to create a new user ?
many thank (2 Replies)
Hi,
On my Unix Server in my directory, I have 70 files distributed in the following directories (which have several other files too). These files include C Source Files, Shell Script Source Files, Binary Files, Object Files.
a) /usr/users/oracle/bin
b) /usr/users/oracle... (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 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)
Hi
My directory structure is as below.
dir1, dir2, dir3
I have the list of files to be deleted in the below path as below.
/staging/retain_for_2years/Cleanup/log $ ls -lrt
total 0
drwxr-xr-x 2 nobody nobody 256 Mar 01 16:15 01-MAR-2015_SPDBS2
drwxr-xr-x 2 root ... (2 Replies)
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deb(5) Debian deb(5)NAME
deb - Debian binary package format
SYNOPSIS
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DESCRIPTION
The .deb format is the Debian binary package file format. It is understood by dpkg 0.93.76 and later, and is generated by default by all
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FORMAT
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