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1. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
I am trying to extract tar file of size 167MB but most of the times tar command stuck while extraction.
Command:
new 24389 24369 0 Nov21 ? 00:00:00 tar -xf NCSanJose1_req_rep.tar
While running process with gdb following back trace was obtain:
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Hi,
How do I extract data from TAR excluding absolute paths for Tar? (Solaris)
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HOw can I create a tar file with relative paths
find . -depth -print | xargs tar -cvf /tmp/file.tar ?
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Hey guys complete n00b here so I'll try my best at explaining.
I'm creating a backup and restore utility and decided to use tar. I create a backup folder in each user's account and when backing up (say word processing files), I use the following:
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5. Shell Programming and Scripting
There is a file paths.txt with paths containing data for example
E:/<BUILD_NAME>/data/common
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6. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I have a file paths.txt with all the file paths. I want to tar everything in those paths to a file.
for example paths.txt contains
/data/extention
/logs/extension
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7. UNIX Desktop Questions & Answers
Can I extract files from an archive file (tar), where the filename includes the full directory path, to a different directory?
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/SrcFiles/XXX/filename.dat
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8. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Dear experts
I have received a tar file containing several files with full path. Now I need to restore it in another system but when I want to extract files by using
tar -xvf tarfile
it wants to create all files with full paths again in new system in which I don't have enough previleges.
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hi
could any body tell me how to extract .tar.bz2 files
i tried using tar but in vain.
i found bzip2 in googling but i could not find it on machine unix tru64
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10. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi folks,
When I am extracting an archive using the:
tar -xvf /dev/rmt0 command i get the following error:
x ./GRBD8901/GRBR006T, 1763253368 bytes, 3443855 media blocks.
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