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1. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
I have figured out how to create a tar file that holds all the files in a particular directory. The plan is to move the tar to a new system via FTP so that we can test the new system with our files and libraries. What I can't figure out is how to unzip the tar file; I keep getting messages that... (8 Replies)
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2. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users
Hi
Somebody must have done this before, but I can't seem to find any answer on my problem.
On HP-UX 11i v3 I have a relatively large tar ball (~120 GB), and I want to create the directory structure only from the archive.
There is no option to make a new archive with only the directory... (3 Replies)
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3. Red Hat
Dear experts,
I have to take back up of 1.8TB data in single cmd. I have tape which has the capasity of 600 GB. Hence i want to use multiple tapes to take the backup using tar cmd.
Kindly help.
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi
I would like to use tar cmd in my script.
I have a variable with filenames, e.g. 1000 records and I would like to paste its values into tar cmd.
For this example I used three elements variable strings.
strings="file1.txt file2.txt file3.txt"
`tar cf file1.tar $strings`
Whether... (1 Reply)
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5. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi all,
I want to only tar the Directories and the Sub Directories. I dont want the files which are created in those directories.
Can you please help me out in this issue.
Regards
Andy (3 Replies)
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6. Solaris
I'm redoing my file system partitions on a Sunblade 100. The system came with a 999mb root and slice 6 with 35GB. I redid the file system by creating separate /opt1, /usr1, /var1, and a /data on different partitions (slice 3, 4, 5 and 7). I need a command to tar my opt, var, opt, usr that's under... (2 Replies)
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7. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi,
I have a bunch of images (8k) in several directories. I want to tar these directories up and unzip them to development and production with the same path.
Example:
/about/images/sample_01
/about/images/sample_02
/about/images/sample_03
/about/images/lorem_ipsum... (4 Replies)
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8. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi All,
Plz tell me the cmd of viewing only directories. Suppose i am at bin directory and it contains another directory mails with lotz of files in it.
Now when ever I do ls -lt mails under bin directory it shows me all the files inside mails dir . But I just want to see only mails... (14 Replies)
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9. Shell Programming and Scripting
In a bash script I am writing I am having a problem excluding selected directories from tar.
From the machine $SERVER I issue the command
#start netcat on storage server
gnetcat -l -vv -p 2011 >$FILEPATH/$SHORT_NAME.$today.tar &
The the following command is then sent to the $CLIENT.
#start... (2 Replies)
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10. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
How do I exclude some directories while creating a tar file with a number of directories?
thanks. (2 Replies)
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