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1. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi all,
I have a tar file and inside that tar file is a folder with additional tar.gz files. What I want to do is look inside the first tar file and then find the second tar file I'm looking for, look inside that tar.gz file to find a certain directory. I'm encountering issues by trying to... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: bashnewbee
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2. Linux
can someone help me here. apparently, the colon i included in the name of this file is making it difficult for tar to untar it. please help
####### tar xvf DailyConfigs_Nov-19-11\:00-2009.tar
rsh: DailyConfigs_Nov-19-11: Name or service not known
tar: DailyConfigs_Nov-19-11\:00-2009.tar:... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: SkySmart
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3. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi all,
4 files are returned when i issue 'find . -mtime -1 -type f -ls'.
./ora_475244.aud
./ora_671958.aud
./ora_934052.aud
./ora_934050.aud
However, when I issued the below command:
tar -cvf test.tar `find . -mtime -1 -type f`, the tar file only contains the 1st file -... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: ahSher
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
i have some 685 files in my directory.Below the count:
find . -name "CurrentCollectorMeterReadBackup_2009*" -exec ls -ltr {} \; | wc -l
685
i want to tar them but it is telling me arg list too long. how to tar all this files in one shot
tar -cvf - -L... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: ali560045
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5. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
I've done a tar -cvf data.tar *
in our live data directory on a Solaris machine.
I copy the tar file to the test area and try
tar -xvf data.tar .
and it uses the full path in the tar file and overwrites the live ones again.
I've used tar many a time and don't understand why its happening.... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: kinhell
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6. Shell Programming and Scripting
The below tar command works fine for me,
tar -cvf - `find ./srcdir -type d` | (cd ./destdir ; tar -xvf - )
but this version is giving error to me:
cd ./srcdir &&
tar -cf - . |
gzip -9 |
cd ../destdir &&
gzip -d |
tar -xf -
error is: gzip: compressed data not read from a terminal.... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: royalibrahim
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7. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users
I am using a tar command to backup my system. It works properly.
I have had some trouble and I need to restore a few files.
I am using the following command :
tar xvf /dev/rmt2h myfile_to_restore
The tar command seemd to work but after a long time I got the following error message :... (6 Replies)
Discussion started by: renard
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8. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users
Can someone please verify for me if tar compresses the directory or filesystem it is asked to back up??
reason am asking is I checked the size of the /home directory before running a tar command
now, after I ran the tar command and the tar was done extracting the directory from the archive, I... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: TRUEST
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9. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users
hi ,
On AIX 4.3.3
I typed the following command
tar -cvf <filename> ( actually I forgot to type the device name)
the output was change in the file size to 10240 bytes
I tried tar -xvf to extract the same but file size is same.
The file was "txt" file and was readable before the... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: amit
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10. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
I need to do a bakcup for some files, in the same tape but in diferente time....
at 9am i need the file /public/test1.txt then...
tar -cvf /dev/st0 /public/test1.txt
at 12pm i need the file /public/test2.txt the....
tar ¿? /public/test2.txt
in this point i have problem beacuse when... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: sokobans
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