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1. Ubuntu
Does anyone know what is solution for this error ?tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors from last 3 days I am trying to take backup of home/user directory getting again and again same error please anyone give me solution (8 Replies)
Discussion started by: Akshay Hegde
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2. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users
Hello unix.com Community:
I need help with writing a "common" script that can get the httpd installs by name and install directory|ies and tar.gz them up by name and point that tar operation to the matching install directory.
I have 2 Distros that I am concerned with for this task: CentOS and... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: Habitual
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I have hundreds of files "*.out" located in one folder,
and I want to:
1. Identify the good files containing "Normal termination" (grep "Normal termination" *.out )
2. Compress the good files into a tar.gz file (tar cvfz good.tar.gz *.goog.out )
Is there a way I can automate this... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: rockytodd
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I am working on a mac OSX machine. I am getting bus error :confused: when i use the command tar -cvf file1.tar file1
What could be the reason for this?? (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: shweeths
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5. Shell Programming and Scripting
I want to use the "--totals" option in GNU tar for some reporting, however I have discovered that it writes the output to stderr not stdout and I would like to know why. This is running from BASH.
mkdir /tmp/test
touch /tmp/test/foo.file
cd /tmp/
tar --totals -clpzf test.tar.gz test 2>... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: jelloir
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6. 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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7. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
i'd like to have an alias (or something similar) where i can type a command like "archive" and a filename and have it tar and gzip the file, so...
$ archive filename
results in filename.tar.gz...do i have to write a script to do this? (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: bcamp1973
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8. AIX
I have a tar file that contains some 50 files in it. while trying to untar i get a checksum error. iam unable to retreive the fiiles from that. Can anyone please help me...? (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: balaa
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9. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users
Ok,
I use the command tar -cvf /home/output/test.tar /home/input on one UNIX server, lets call it sneezy. I FTP the tared file over to another server, lets call it bashful. Use the tar -xvf test.tar command and get a error indicating that it is looking for the same directory as where the... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: wev
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