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1. 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)
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2. 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)
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
When I use -p option(preserve permissions) while creating tar archives, it throws error and creates archive in the name of 'p'. But without -p option I am able to create archive name as I mentioned.
how do I work it out with --preserve-permissions?
Any help is much appreciated.
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I make a tar archive:
tar -czvf /path_to/cucu.tar.gz /path/dir_to_archive/
In the archive the /path/dir_to_archive/ is maintained for every file.
I need that the archive to be made without the /path/dir_to_archive/ to contain only the files in /path/dir_to_archive/.
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5. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hello!
I want to extract a choosen directory (and its contents) from a tar archive and i have tried what i believe is every option i could find in the manual.
I think i have done it once before, but i don't remeber how.
Could anyone please tell me how to do? (2 Replies)
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6. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Can I extract files from an archive file (tar), where the filename includes the full directory path, to a different directory?
For example the archive files may have a filename of
/SrcFiles/XXX/filename.dat
and I want to extract it to /SrcFiles/YYY/filename.dat. Since the archive file was... (1 Reply)
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7. UNIX and Linux Applications
Is it possible to update a file in a compressed archive.tgz using the tar app without uncompressing/extracting, update and compressing/creating ?
tar -uvzf archive.tgz ./file.txt
tar: Cannot update compressed archives
Try `tar --help' for more information. (1 Reply)
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8. 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)
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9. 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)
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10. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hello,
I have a tar archive full of compressed .Z (compressed with the compress command) files. I have restored the tar to a disk but am looking for a way to uncompress every file in every sub-directory. Under normal circumstances, I would just change directories and "uncompress *" but with 1600... (3 Replies)
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