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)
I received a tar file of a directory with 50,000 files in it. Is it possible to extract the files in the tar file without first creating the directory?
ie. Doing tar -xvf filename.tar extracts as follows:
x directory/file1.txt
x directory/file2.txt
.
.
.
I would like to avoid... (4 Replies)
Hello all.
I have a tar file that contains a number of files that are stored in different directories.
If I extract this tar file with -xvf , the directories get created.
Is there a way to extract all of the files into one directory without creating the directories stored in the tar file. (9 Replies)
Hi All-
I want to extract a particular folder from .tar format files.
For example:
File Name: backup.tar
The backup.tar contains the below folders & files.
1) /root_folder/Folder1/Folder1-1/*
2) /root_folder/Folder1/Folder1-2/*
3) /root_folder/Folder2/Folder2-1/*
4)... (5 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,
I'm using a tar command
tar -xOvf /home/mytar.tar
My intention is to extract data in files which are inside various directories,
without extracting files to the disk.
Is this the best way to achieve it?
Thanks,
Chetan (3 Replies)
Hi,
I have tar filw which has multiple directories which contain files.
When i extract using tar -xf the directory structure also get extracted.
I require only files and not directory structures as there will be overhead of moving the files again.
So i searched here and got a solution but... (4 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)
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unp
unp(1) General Commands Manual unp(1)NAME
unp - a shell frontend for uncompressing/unpacking tools
SYNOPSIS
unp [-u] file [ files ... ] [ -- backend args ... ] ucat file [ files ... ]
unp is a small script with only one goal: Extract as many archives as possible, of any kind and from any path to the current directory,
preserving the subdirectory structure where needed. Is a Do-What-I-Want utility and helps managing several extraction programs without
looking for needed options for the particular tool or worrying about the installation of the needed program.
Run unp without arguments to see the list of supported archive formats.
The special version ucat acts as wrapper for commands that can output the extracted data to standard output, like bzip (bzcat), gzip
(zcat), tar, zip and others.
USAGE
unp extracts one or more files given as arguments on the command line. Additionally, it may pass some options to the backend tools (like
tar options) when they are appended after `--'.
There is also a special option (-u) which is very useful for extracting Debian packages. Using -u, unp extracts the package (i.e. the ar
archive) first, then extracts data.tar.gz in the current directory and then control.tar.gz in control/<filename>/.
NOTES
unp will try to decompress into a FILE.unp if it get trouble with existing files. But don't count on this feature, always look for free
working space before using unp.
Unlike gunzip, which decompresses the file in the target directory of the source file, unp uses the current directory for output.
AUTHOR
Development started by Andre Karwath <andre.karwath@informatik.tu-chemnitz.de>
Now maintained and packaged for Debian by Eduard Bloch <blade@debian.org>
18 Feb 2001 unp(1)