How to compress a directory on a Sun Solaris 5.7 ? Post: 39548

6 More Discussions You Might Find Interesting

1. Shell Programming and Scripting

How to Compress files before moving them in a directory

I need a shell script that zips a file before moving them..please help

2. Shell Programming and Scripting

compress Directory

Hi Friends, I have a directory under which 10 more directories are there. In each 10 directories there are several files. I want to do FTP. But in FTP we cannt Transfer the main directory. each Time we have to go to the respective directry and then we have to to FTP. For this instance I...

3. Solaris

how to tar a directory in a sun solaris?

i have lot of directories which are needed to be transferred to a LINUX workstation. to do this i need to tar the directories. please let me know how to tar the directories in Sun Solaris.

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

Compress the contents of a directory while copying data into it

Hi guys I have a need to compress the contents of a directory while I am copying data into it. I was able to do this when it was only one file by doing as below: STEP1: mknod myfile p STEP2: chmod 777 myfile STEP3: compress -v < myfile > myfile.Z & STEP4: cp -p xyz_file myfile...

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

Archive directory script with tar/compress

Hi all I need to write a script that archives all files with a certain date in the filename, to another location. It has to run on a AIX using tar/compress or another standard AIX tool. The directory will have x files, each prefixed with a date like yyyymmdd_desc.csv. I need all to...

6. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

How do I compress all files in a directory?

the problem states "Write a script that compresses all the files in the directory. Make a directory and put some files in it. Also make a sub directory in your directory and put files in it also. Once you have this basic ability to compress all files within a directory, add to your script a menu of...

LEARN ABOUT OPENSOLARIS

updatemanager

updatemanager(1M)					  System Administration Commands					 updatemanager(1M)

NAME

       updatemanager - start the Sun Update Manager application

SYNOPSIS

       updatemanager

DESCRIPTION

       The  updatemanager  command  starts the Sun Update Manager application. The Sun Update Manager is a graphical user interface (GUI) that you
       can use to manage updates and patches on your Solaris system.

       For more information about using this application, see the Sun Update Manager 1.0 Administration Guide in the Sun Update Connection, System
       Edition Collection on docs.sun.com.

       You can also manage updates and patches on the command line by using the smpatch command. See the smpatch(1M) man page.

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability		     |SUNWupdatemgru		   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Interface Stability	     |Unstable			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       smpatch(1M), attributes(5)

SunOS 5.11							    11 Oct 2005 						 updatemanager(1M)