Hmmm... good question! Sun has made the source code available. Looking at tar.c, I see that the limit is from this line:
#define TAR_OFFSET_MAX 077777777777
That is only eleven octal digits and it looks like 12 should be able to fit. So I guess that I don't know why that is.
When trying to extract a tar file in HP-UX using tar -xvf command it exits with the following error :"Tar: tape blocksize error".
Tar file is created using the following command with MKS toolkit(Unix Simulation Kit for Windows env) under Windows 2000 Professional:
"$tar -cvf test.tar test.txt... (1 Reply)
If I have a directory /directory1 and want to tar and zip everything in it into a file new_tar.tar.gz on disk (not tape)
How can I do it?
I tried tar -cv /new_tar.tar /directory1/*
But I got an error: tar: /dev/rmt/0: No such device or address (4 Replies)
Hi,
I have tar: tape blocksize error when launching
# gunzip < TierDB.tar.gz |tar -xvf /data/ora/DREC
tar: tape blocksize error
Can you please help me ? It is urgent.
Many thanks. (1 Reply)
Hi,
How do I tar all but a specific set of files in a directory? Is it possible to use regular expressions in the tar command? I want to tar all files except those beginning with D. I tried this
tar -cvf files.tar ^
but this didn't work. Anyone any ideas.
Thanks (2 Replies)
Hi all, my directory structure is as follows /a/b/c.
I would like to tar the /a directory including the subdirectories b and c.
i intend to use the command tar -cvfz a.tgz a/ My question is where do i execute the command? do i execute it at the '/' prompt or at '/a' prompt ? My concern at... (1 Reply)
I have a file that is 20 - 80+ MB in size that is a certain type of log file.
It logs one of our processes and this process is multi-threaded. Therefore the log file is kind of a mess. Here's an example:
The logfile looks like: "DATE TIME - THREAD ID - Details", and a new file is created... (4 Replies)
How do I create individual tars of a all the directories in a directory? I have a directory called 'patients', each patient has a directory in the patients directory. I want to create tars such that each patient has their own tar file.
Thanks! (5 Replies)
I'm trying to compress a directory structure on an external hard drive, connected by eSATA cable to my linux (Ubuntu 10.04) desktop. The total volume is 500Gb with half a million files, ranging from Kb to Mb in size. The drive is 2Tb, with 0.8Tb free space before compression.
running "tar -pcf... (10 Replies)
Hi,
I am trying to determine if a tape is full because on 2 different tapes, im receiving 2 different kind of errors:
# uname
SunOS
# /bin/tar cvf /dev/rmt/0n /export/home
a /export/home/jerry/wlserver_10.0.tar.gz 28528 tape blocks
tar: write error: unexpected EOF
# mt -f /dev/rmt/0n... (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: mosies
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LEARN ABOUT CENTOS
lwp-download
LWP-DOWNLOAD(1) User Contributed Perl Documentation LWP-DOWNLOAD(1)NAME
lwp-download - Fetch large files from the web
SYNOPSIS
lwp-download [-a] [-s] <url> [<local path>]
DESCRIPTION
The lwp-download program will save the file at url to a local file.
If local path is not specified, then the current directory is assumed.
If local path is a directory, then the last segment of the path of the url is appended to form a local filename. If the url path ends with
slash the name "index" is used. With the -s option pick up the last segment of the filename from server provided sources like the Content-
Disposition header or any redirect URLs. A file extension to match the server reported Content-Type might also be appended. If a file
with the produced filename already exists, then lwp-download will prompt before it overwrites and will fail if its standard input is not a
terminal. This form of invocation will also fail is no acceptable filename can be derived from the sources mentioned above.
If local path is not a directory, then it is simply used as the path to save into. If the file already exists it's overwritten.
The lwp-download program is implemented using the libwww-perl library. It is better suited to down load big files than the lwp-request
program because it does not store the file in memory. Another benefit is that it will keep you updated about its progress and that you
don't have much options to worry about.
Use the "-a" option to save the file in text (ascii) mode. Might make a difference on dosish systems.
EXAMPLE
Fetch the newest and greatest perl version:
$ lwp-download http://www.perl.com/CPAN/src/latest.tar.gz
Saving to 'latest.tar.gz'...
11.4 MB received in 8 seconds (1.43 MB/sec)
AUTHOR
Gisle Aas <gisle@aas.no>
perl v5.16.3 2012-01-14 LWP-DOWNLOAD(1)
10-05-2005
