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1. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
I am not able to extract/remove files older than 1000 days from a tar archive in linux system.
#!/usr/bin/perl
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$file_name = '/home/x/tmp/new_archive.tar';
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2. Solaris
Hello Admins,
I am facing an issue with ustar tar archive on solaris 10.
By mistake I have created ustar tar archive of /var/adm/messages file on solaris10.
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3. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
I want to tar large number of files about 150k.
i am using the find command as below to create a file with all file names.
& then trying to use the tar -I command as below.
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4. Linux
I have made tar archive of my system.. How can I make that tar archive to be bootable.. simply to install new linux from the archived tar file.. thanks in advance (8 Replies)
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5. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi Folks,
I have a tar.gz compressed file with me, and I want to know the number of files in the archive without uncompressing it.
Please let me know how I can achieve it.
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RK Veluvali (5 Replies)
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6. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi,
I need to create recursive tar archive, while I put there only files of type a*.txt.
Without file filtering the command is: tar cfzf test.tar.gz test_tar/
How I include the switch for including only files with pattern a*.txt ?
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7. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
hey
how do you create a archive and add file to an existing archive.
i keep getting an error: dir/#: No such file or directory
currently using tar -cvfu name.tar files
files searching from a word document each line having different file extention.
Thanks in advance (1 Reply)
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8. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi,
I want to archive below directories
ex: /home/oracle/ddd0
/home/oracle/ddd1
/home/oracle/ddd2
I want a command(tar) which will let me archive the above directories excluding *.dmp(dump files), *.log(log files) in those directories.
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9. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users
Hi, I would modify to delete the files after creating the tar archive.
How I can modify the following command:
tar -cvvf logswitch.tar `find *.log* -mtime +5`
It create a tar with files that are older than 5 days. (5 Replies)
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10. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hello,
I have a tar archive full of compressed .Z (compressed with the compress command) files. I have restored the tar to a disk but am looking for a way to uncompress every file in every sub-directory. Under normal circumstances, I would just change directories and "uncompress *" but with 1600... (3 Replies)
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