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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. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi
i want to tar a directory.. i have tried few command but it is not working .
please let me know how to tar and untar a directory
below are the error which i am getting
tar -zxvf tl11cp01_042414_071123.tar.gz
tar: Not a recognized flag: z
tar -zxvf... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: scriptor
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
i have a 10 directory in my path
i have to take a tar of 7 directory without link files and also have to exclude those 3 directory.
tar -cvzf /path/file_name.tar.gz directoryname
please help!!
facing problem in excluding links file (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: joy lobo
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4. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi Guys,
I am able to untar a tar.gz file. But it is again extracting the tar file to further child directory.
I even tried the below command to untar it to particular directory.
tar -zxvf gme_dly_sls_20120515035335.txt.tar.gz -C /sites/VSTAR/site/live/ftp/GMEUROPE
I am getting the below... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: mac4rfree
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5. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
can someone give me a script to tar files that is older than 5 days in a directory that is not something like this:
fileArray=($(find -mtime +5 asdfasdf))
tar -cvf asfadfasdfa ${fileArray}
as the Unix I'm using has some problem with ($( )), I need another way to tar files in the folder.... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: s3270226
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6. 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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7. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
I m new to unix and trying to use tar command with -C option -
tar -cf /tmp/Test_shell/ZipTestFolder/archive10.tar -C /tmp/Test_shell/ZipTestFolder/ .
It creates one more folder no_name inside the tar file. any suggestions how to remove it. I m using aix 5.3 (8 Replies)
Discussion started by: abhishek1.618
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8. 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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9. 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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10. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
OS: SunOS perfs01 5.8 Generic_117350-23 sun4u sparc SUNW,UltraAX-i2
I want to tar a directory, but there are subdirectoires I want to exclude. Does anyone know how to do it?
Please help.
thanks. (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: leemjesse
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