08-04-2005
Have you tried using the shell to accomplish what you need.
for example:
foreach i (*/*.Z)
uncompress $i
end
This will descend 1 level into a directory and uncompress the file.
10 More Discussions You Might Find Interesting
1. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users
Hi, I would modify to delete the files after creating the tar archive.
How I can modify the following command:
tar -cvvf logswitch.tar `find *.log* -mtime +5`
It create a tar with files that are older than 5 days. (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: Minguccio75
5 Replies
2. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi,
I want to archive below directories
ex: /home/oracle/ddd0
/home/oracle/ddd1
/home/oracle/ddd2
I want a command(tar) which will let me archive the above directories excluding *.dmp(dump files), *.log(log files) in those directories.
So the archived file doesn't have... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: dreams5617
4 Replies
3. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
hey
how do you create a archive and add file to an existing archive.
i keep getting an error: dir/#: No such file or directory
currently using tar -cvfu name.tar files
files searching from a word document each line having different file extention.
Thanks in advance (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: nookie
1 Replies
4. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi,
I need to create recursive tar archive, while I put there only files of type a*.txt.
Without file filtering the command is: tar cfzf test.tar.gz test_tar/
How I include the switch for including only files with pattern a*.txt ?
Thanks a lot! (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: john.gelburg
1 Replies
5. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi Folks,
I have a tar.gz compressed file with me, and I want to know the number of files in the archive without uncompressing it.
Please let me know how I can achieve it.
Regards
RK Veluvali (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: vrk1219
5 Replies
6. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello,
I have a problem using Archive::Tar. it seem very trivial but i cannot get it work.
First I have a list of files I grab from a directory. Then I create a tar archive and write the files into the archive. everything works great, except that I cannot properly extract the files.
What... (0 Replies)
Discussion started by: amcrisan
0 Replies
7. Linux
I have made tar archive of my system.. How can I make that tar archive to be bootable.. simply to install new linux from the archived tar file.. thanks in advance (8 Replies)
Discussion started by: Vit0_Corleone
8 Replies
8. Solaris
Hello Admins,
I am facing an issue with ustar tar archive on solaris 10.
By mistake I have created ustar tar archive of /var/adm/messages file on solaris10.
I am trying to untar the /var/adm/messages file . but I am not getting the original text messages file.
I user tar -xvf ... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: snchaudhari2
4 Replies
9. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
I am not able to extract/remove files older than 1000 days from a tar archive in linux system.
#!/usr/bin/perl
@file_list = `find /home/x/tmp/ -name *xxMsg* -ctime +7`;
$file_name = '/home/x/tmp/new_archive.tar';
for... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: DannyV
1 Replies
10. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
I cant seem to work out how to count the number of executable files in a particular tar archive? Only in a directory as a whole.
I also cant work out how to count number of certain file types in a tar archive. Only the directory, pretty stuck :( (9 Replies)
Discussion started by: Razor147
9 Replies
LEARN ABOUT FREEBSD
archive_write_add_filter_program
ARCHIVE_WRITE_FILTER(3) BSD Library Functions Manual ARCHIVE_WRITE_FILTER(3)
NAME
archive_write_add_filter_bzip2, archive_write_add_filter_compress, archive_write_add_filter_gzip, archive_write_add_filter_lzip,
archive_write_add_filter_lzma, archive_write_add_filter_none, archive_write_add_filter_program, archive_write_add_filter_xz
LIBRARY
Streaming Archive Library (libarchive, -larchive)
SYNOPSIS
#include <archive.h>
int
archive_write_add_filter_bzip2(struct archive *);
int
archive_write_add_filter_compress(struct archive *);
int
archive_write_add_filter_gzip(struct archive *);
int
archive_write_add_filter_lzip(struct archive *);
int
archive_write_add_filter_lzma(struct archive *);
int
archive_write_add_filter_none(struct archive *);
int
archive_write_add_filter_program(struct archive *, const char * cmd);
int
archive_write_add_filter_xz(struct archive *);
DESCRIPTION
archive_write_add_filter_bzip2(), archive_write_add_filter_compress(), archive_write_add_filter_gzip(), archive_write_add_filter_lzip(),
archive_write_add_filter_lzma(), archive_write_add_filter_xz(),
The resulting archive will be compressed as specified. Note that the compressed output is always properly blocked.
archive_write_add_filter_none()
This is never necessary. It is provided only for backwards compatibility.
archive_write_add_filter_program()
The archive will be fed into the specified compression program. The output of that program is blocked and written to the client
write callbacks.
RETURN VALUES
These functions return ARCHIVE_OK on success, or ARCHIVE_FATAL.
ERRORS
Detailed error codes and textual descriptions are available from the archive_errno() and archive_error_string() functions.
SEE ALSO
tar(1), libarchive(3), archive_write(3), archive_write_format(3), archive_write_set_options(3), cpio(5), mtree(5), tar(5)
BSD
February 2, 2012 BSD