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1. UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers
i use the split command to split a one terabyte backup file into 10 chunks of 100 GB each. The files are split one after the other. While the files is being split, I will like to scp the files one after the other as soon as the previous one completes, from server A to Server B. Then on server B ,... (2 Replies)
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
I need a script file for backup (zip or tar or gz) of old log files in our unix server (causing the space problem). Could you please help me to create the zip or gz files for each log files in current directory and sub-directories also?
I found one command which is to create gz file for the... (4 Replies)
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3. Solaris
I have recently built a new server and patched Soalris 10 up tp latest bundle etc...
When I run a decompress using the format zcat fred.Z |tar -xvf - it runs at a very slow rate.
A similiar server which is less powerful runs over twice as quick.
Is there any work arounds to configure decompress... (4 Replies)
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello,
When i lauches this command
ssh -n server_name gunzip -c "/REP/xxxx.gz" > server.logThere are a few stray characters like NULNULNULNUL100644 NUL000000NUL000000NUL00024002704 12135060747 012607NUL at the beginning of server.log.
In the xxxx.gz there is a tar file
I'm not sure but it... (5 Replies)
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5. Shell Programming and Scripting
I have a tar file which i want to read and check some specific fields basis on which i want to get output.
Code
zcat samplefile.tar.gz | awk 'FNR==1 {++counter}
counter ==2 {BB=1;next}
substr($0,26,2) =="01") {next}
(substr($0,28,12) ~ "^") {next}
(substr($0,184,3) in BB) {next}
1
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6. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi,
just i would like to know, how will be the response if you try to read a 40GB compressed file using zcat.
a)Uncompress the 40GB file and have it in the disk. use cat to view the steps.
b)Use zcat directly to view the compressed file?
What are the steps being occurred in step (b)?
Where... (3 Replies)
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7. Shell Programming and Scripting
I created a backup script that emails all the admins when the backup is complete and attaches a log file of what what backed up. On occasion, something happens in which the backups stop working, I started "grep"ing around /var/log/syslog and I usually find the smoking gun. My goal is to zcat... (8 Replies)
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8. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi I am going to migrate our datawarehouse system from HP Tru 64 Unix to the Red Hat Linux.
Inside the box, it is running around 40 cron jobs; inside each cron job, it is calling other shell script files, and the shell script files may again call other shell script files or ctl files(for... (1 Reply)
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9. Linux
Hi
I am trying to extract a <filename>.tar.Z on a SLES machine using zcat.
The command I am using is
zcat <filename>.tar.Z | tar xf -
When I use the above I get the following message
tar: Read 7168 bytes from -
I think the message is benign because I see that my files where... (2 Replies)
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10. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi all
I have more than 1000 files in a folder and when ever i use a "compress" or "zcat" command it give error
/bin/zcat: Arg list too long. .
any solution for this :o (3 Replies)
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