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1. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users
I was looking at this tutorial for tar extract Z file. Is there a reason why this did not work? I checked my man pages and it had a -Z option.
tar -xZvf /opt/Nimsoft/nimldr.tar.Z
tar (child): compress: Cannot exec: No such file or directory
tar (child): Error is not recoverable: exiting now... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: cokedude
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi Guys,
Could you please help to get specific files from /di/data/prd/serial/lookup/abetlp11_lookup_20180206.tar.lzo without extracting whole compressed file tar.lzo as its size is huge
file name - xyz.lkp
Thanks (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: himanshupant
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3. Solaris
Hi all,
In Solaris howto extract tar file to specific folder.
This is what we do in Linux, but how to do the same thing in Solaris ?
-tar -xzvf /tmp/etc.tar.bz -C /tmp
(Will extract in /tmp dir)
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-tar -czvf /tmp/etc.tar.bz /etc
-du ... (5 Replies)
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4. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
I would like to confirm my file.tar is been tar-ed correctly before I remove them. But I have very limited disc space to untar it.
Can I just do the listing instead of actual extract it? Can I say confirm folder integrity if the listing is sucessful without problem?
tar tvf file1.tar
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Discussion started by: vivien_chu
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5. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi,
Hi recently downloaded the source code from Advanced Programming in the Unix Envrionment 2e and extracted the source from its tar file. The extracted files have these characteristics:
1) They can can be seen in a directory listing and brought up for viewing in emacs;
2) They cannot be... (2 Replies)
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6. Shell Programming and Scripting
I am working on a script to install a software distribution which ships as a *.tar.gz file. The company doesn't name the dist consistently, but the resulting directory out of the *.tar.gz file (ie: XXX_X_X_X) is consistent and shows the software version.
I'm writing this with BASH-3.25.x... (4 Replies)
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7. Emergency UNIX and Linux Support
Hi All-
I want to extract a particular folder from .tar format files.
For example:
File Name: backup.tar
The backup.tar contains the below folders & files.
1) /root_folder/Folder1/Folder1-1/*
2) /root_folder/Folder1/Folder1-2/*
3) /root_folder/Folder2/Folder2-1/*
4)... (5 Replies)
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8. Shell Programming and Scripting
hi all,
kindly help me how to extract one file form .tar.gz without uncompressing .tar.gz file.
thanks in advance
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Discussion started by: balireddy_77
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9. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
hi everyone
i have a tar file which was in AIX box. its 300mb.
i cant untar in windowsxp home. I just get an empty folder with no files when i extract. i dont get any bad header or any such error.
i am using IZARC which is a freeware. Not sure if i should try winzip or winrar.
any help (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: bryan
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10. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users
anyone know if it is possable to extract a subdirectory in a tar file.
IE
tarfile contains
parent dir
-sub dir A
-sub dir B
I want to extract sub dir B. (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: Optimus_P
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How to extract a particular file in tar.Z format