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We had that already: "tar tvf ....", without the dash.



This has nothing to do with the OS, only with the tar-version you use: GNU-tar understands "z" (again: not "-z", but "z") andh "j", the...

Two minor corrections: first, tar is one of the few commands where "-" does NOT introduce options. Correct is:

tar xvf -

Still, i do not think this is pertinent to your problem.

Second: i am...

You can't: because of he algorithm used there is no direct relation between the source and the target file size: if file X is bigger than file Y then X.gz might still be smaller than Y.gz. The only...

gzip -cd <file> unzips from a file to <stdout> This data stream can be fed to "tar".

tar -x <dir> extracts <dir> and all files containing it from a tar archive.

Hence:

gzip -cd...

This is true. From the AIX 6.1 manual (http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/aix/v6r1/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.ibm.aix.cmds%2Fdoc%2Faixcmds5%2Ftar.htm):



IMHO "tar" is a good device to bundle some...

After the tar has finished you can consult the exit code (=errorlevel). As always in Unix, "0" means no error, any other code means various sorts of error conditions. Check the man page for further...

AIX adheres to the "USTAR" standard (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tar_%28computing%29). The 2GB limit was lifted with AIX 5.1, as shockneck pointed out (https://www.unix.com/302236185-post2.html). AIX...