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1. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi Guys,
I have 2 compressed files tar.lzo and having many subdirectories inside it.
I would like to know which files having the difference in terms of size/content.
I am using bash shell and unix server
example:-
file1 :- abc.tar.lzo
file2 :- xyz.tar.lzo
Result:-
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Discussion started by: himanshupant
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2. UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers
hello
i wish to write the result of these below conditions in a file:
1. in a specific folder, i have many tar.gz files.
2. each tar.gz file contains ".dat" file in sub folders.
3. i wish to get the full path of these .dat files, if i find in it a specific word ("ERROR24").
4. all this... (6 Replies)
Discussion started by: jimmyjames9
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
In the bash below each .tar.bz2 (usually 2) are extracted and then the original .tar.bz2 is removed. However, only one (presumably the first extracted) is being removed, however both are extracted. I am not sure why this is? Thank you :).
tar.bz2 folders in /home/cmccabe/Desktop/NGS/API
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Discussion started by: cmccabe
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
I have a directory tree containing archive .tar.gz files that I want to extract at the location where they recide.
How can I achieve such an operation? (7 Replies)
Discussion started by: kristinu
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5. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I'm using a tar command
tar -xOvf /home/mytar.tar
My intention is to extract data in files which are inside various directories,
without extracting files to the disk.
Is this the best way to achieve it?
Thanks,
Chetan (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: chetan.c
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6. 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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7. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
I have tried:
tar -xfv mytarfile.tar archive/tabv/*
tar -xfv mytarfile.tar --wildcards 'archive/tabv/*'
tar -xf mytarfile.tar -v --wildcards 'archive/tabv/*'
tar -xfv mytarfile.tar --wildcards --no-anchored 'archive/tabv/*'
tar -xfv mytarfile.tar --wildcards `archive/tabv/*`
and none... (5 Replies)
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8. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hey guys complete n00b here so I'll try my best at explaining.
I'm creating a backup and restore utility and decided to use tar. I create a backup folder in each user's account and when backing up (say word processing files), I use the following:
tar cvf /home/user/backup/wpbackup.tar... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: EwanD
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9. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi All,
I want to read the content of the particular file from tar.Z without extracting.
aaa.tar.Z contains a file called one.txt, I want to read the content of the one.txt without extracting.
Please help me to read the content of it.
Regards,
Kalai. (12 Replies)
Discussion started by: kalpeer
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10. Shell Programming and Scripting
so i have hundreds of files named history.20071112.tar
(history.YYYYMMDD.tar)
and im looking to extract one file out of each archive called status_YYYYMMDDHH:MM.lis
here is what i have so far:
for FILE in `cat dirlist`
do
tar xvf $FILE ./status_*
done
dirlist is a text... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: kuliksco
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