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1. AIX
Quick question,
is it possible to make a Tar of completely directory and placing the tar file in it (will this cause even the tar file to tarred ?)
sample:
/opt/freeware/bin/tar -cvf - /oracle | gzip > /oracle/backup.tgz
will the tar file backup.tgz also include backup.tgz ?
i tried... (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: filosophizer
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I have tar filw which has multiple directories which contain files.
When i extract using tar -xf the directory structure also get extracted.
I require only files and not directory structures as there will be overhead of moving the files again.
So i searched here and got a solution but... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: chetan.c
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3. 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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4. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users
I want to backup all the directory tress, including hidden directories, without copying any files.
find . -type d gives the perfect list.
When I tried tar, it won't work for me because it tars all the files.
find . -type d | xargs tar -cvf a.tar
So i tried rsync.
On my own test box, the... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: fld2007
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5. Shell Programming and Scripting
HI,
if I have a tarfile called pmapdata.tar that contains
tar -tvf pmapdata.tar
-rw-r--r-- 0/0 21 Oct 15 11:00 2009 /var/tmp/pmapdata/pmap4628.txt
-rw-r--r-- 0/0 21 Oct 14 20:00 2009 /var/tmp/pmapdata/pmap23752.txt
-rw-r--r-- 0/0 1625 Oct 13 20:00 2009... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: borderblaster
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6. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi All,
I need to tar the entire directory except one directory inside that.
I have used the below command
tar -cvfX test.tar bin/perl bin/
I need to tar all the directories inside the bindirectory except the perl directory
Please help me in solving this :b:
Regards,
Kalai (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: kalpeer
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7. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
What I'm trying to do is rather easy to explain, but I don't know if it's possible.
The main idea is that I have directories which I want to add to a TAR file, but for some of them I don't want to include the files in the directory. I just want to add the path to the TAR file as if the... (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: wisobe
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8. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi,
i have more than 300 tar files in directory and i want to zip all tar files to single file.
could anybody tell me the command since i know how to do zip for single tar file:
bash-3.00$gzip 2008_11_10.tar
bash-3.00$ pwd
/oracle1/archivebackup
in this directory i have lot files... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: prakash.gr
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9. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users
Hi,
On my Unix Server in my directory, I have 70 files distributed in the following directories (which have several other files too). These files include C Source Files, Shell Script Source Files, Binary Files, Object Files.
a) /usr/users/oracle/bin
b) /usr/users/oracle... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: marconi
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10. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
I received a tar file of a directory with 50,000 files in it. Is it possible to extract the files in the tar file without first creating the directory?
ie. Doing tar -xvf filename.tar extracts as follows:
x directory/file1.txt
x directory/file2.txt
.
.
.
I would like to avoid... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: here2learn
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