@Rudic with your suggestion tar -X ./exclude.txt -cf - ./1043 | gzip -c >/backup/App_Bckup.tar.gz I still get the below error messages:
I'm helpless with that little context you give. What's so special with those files? Does tar work without the gzip? Does it work with other files, e.g simple text files? In another directory? Without the exclude file? On one single file?
Hi,
There are 700 .pdf files in a certain directory on the server and I need to TAR them first and then compress them using GZIP to free up the space. The combined size of the .pdf files is 3gb. However, there is only 1gb of free space on the server. So as you can see when I try to TAR these... (3 Replies)
P0251WLADC.svm_wl1 > /svm_wl1/billing/data/server/archive/ALLEVT
$ du -k FEB2006
22050224 FEB2006
As you can see,i have a folder called "FEB2006" which is around 22 GB.
i guess zip or compress wont work...( i don know how do we compress a folder)
i wished to use ""tar" ( i suppose... (5 Replies)
Hi,
I would like to have a combined gzip and tar that will compress and create multiple output tar.gz files. I want to have multiple files output because i cannot create an archive because there is no more space on my harddisk. I cannot transfer it locally because of slow connection. I want to... (3 Replies)
I'm trying to see which files have a particular word in them.
The files are all text files but are gzipped and are in sub directories.
In order to view the content of a single gzipped file I tried:
cat filename | gzip -d | less , and it shows the files contents.
But, I want to see a list... (1 Reply)
i'd like to have an alias (or something similar) where i can type a command like "archive" and a filename and have it tar and gzip the file, so...
$ archive filename
results in filename.tar.gz...do i have to write a script to do this? (4 Replies)
Hi All
I need guidance on this requirement .
We have a directory structure which has data of approx 100 GB
We need to tar the structure then zip it and create different files of not more than 10 GB
A separate tar file then a .gz should not be created , on the fly a script is needed... (7 Replies)
Hi Guys,
I have a few files. i want to tar these files and zip it using gzip it.
-rw-r----- 1 magesh magesh 12940369 Jul 27 09:26 dcx_imds_c.asc
-rw-r----- 1 magesh magesh 1221391 Jul 27 09:27 dcx_imds_h.asc
-rw-r----- 1 magesh magesh 1105673 Jul 27 09:27... (6 Replies)
Hi Guys,
I am using RHEL5 and Solaris 9 & 10.
I want to tar and gzip my files then remove them after a successful tar command...
Lets say I have files with extension .arc then I want to tar and gzip these files.
After successful tar command I want to remove all these files (i.e .arc).
... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: Phuti
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LEARN ABOUT PLAN9
tar
TAR(1) General Commands Manual TAR(1)NAME
tar - archiver
SYNOPSIS
tar key [ file ... ]
DESCRIPTION
Tar saves and restores file trees. It is most often used to transport a tree of files from one system to another. The key is a string
that contains at most one function letter plus optional modifiers. Other arguments to the command are names of files or directories to be
dumped or restored. A directory name implies all the contained files and subdirectories (recursively).
The function is one of the following letters:
c Create a new archive with the given files as contents.
x Extract the named files from the archive. If a file is a directory, the directory is extracted recursively. Modes are restored if
possible. If no file argument is given, extract the entire archive. If the archive contains multiple entries for a file, the lat-
est one wins.
t List all occurrences of each file in the archive, or of all files if there are no file arguments.
r The named files are appended to the archive.
The modifiers are:
v (verbose) Print the name of each file treated preceded by the function letter. With t, give more details about the archive entries.
f Use the next argument as the name of the archive instead of the default standard input (for keys x and t) or standard output (for
keys c and r).
u Use the next (numeric) argument as the user id for files in the output archive. This is only useful when moving files to a non-Plan
9 system.
g Use the next (numeric) argument as the group id for files in the output archive.
EXAMPLES
Tar can be used to copy hierarchies thus:
{cd fromdir; tar c .} | {cd todir; tar x}
SOURCE
/sys/src/cmd/tar.c
SEE ALSO ar(1), bundle(1), tapefs(1)BUGS
There is no way to ask for any but the last occurrence of a file.
File path names are limited to 100 characters.
The tar format allows specification of links and symbolic links, concepts foreign to Plan 9: they are ignored.
TAR(1)