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1. AIX
Coming from this thread, just wondering if there is an option to check if the Tar of the files/directory will be without any file-errors without actually making the tar.
Scenario:
Let's say you have a directory of 20GB, but you don't have the space to make Tar file at the moment, and you want... (14 Replies)
Discussion started by: filosophizer
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2. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hello Team,
Would you please help me with a UNIX command that would check if file is a tar file.
if we dont have that , can you help me with UNIX command that would check if file ends with .tar
Thanks in advance. (10 Replies)
Discussion started by: sanjaydubey2006
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3. 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
... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: vivien_chu
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4. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Sometime I have to deal with very large log files and I cannot view them for analysis using more or vi. The attempts to open the files error out saying there is not enough memory.
Is there any tool or method with which I can go through huge files? (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: rcchume
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5. 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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6. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users
Hi All
Can someone pls guide me if there any utility to compress file on windows & uncompress on vxworks
I tried as -
- compressed some folders on windows ... i created .tar ( to maintain directory structure ) and compressed to .gz format.
- on VxWorks i have uncompressed it to .tar... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: uday_01
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7. 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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8. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users
Trying to answer a question about whether tar table-of-contents is a good tool for verifying tape data. (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: tjlst15
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9. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi All,
I am trying to look into the crontab file present in /var/spool/cron/crontab. A file with the name of the superuser name is present there with the -r-------- permission. Even I am logged in using the same superuser id. But while am trying to cat that, its prompting permission denied.
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Discussion started by: rinku11
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10. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
I have backed up a job ona ait tape from unix. i would like to retrieve the data from that tape from a windows pc. i am aware that there may be software available that will allow windows to recognise .tar files. does anyone know where i can source this software or is there any other options (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: mapping
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