Unix command to check if file name ends with .tar OR if file is a tar file
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
You don't need GNU-tar, it is possible with a standard tar too by untarring to stdout:
@sanjaydubey2006:
As far as i can see agent.kgb (and the other people in the second thread you opened) have given you very sound advice. If you still are not able to do what you want to do there are two possible reasons:
Either you have not described your problem well. Instead of having asked for what you really want to do you asked for something you thought you might need to do what you want to do. Analysing a problem correctly at least to the point where one is able to concisely state what the problem is is trait you absolutely will need as a systems administrator - especially a UNIX systems administrator. Think about that.
Or - and this would pose an even greater problem - you absolutely have no idea how what you want to do is done and expect us to give you a turn-key solution. Now, i hate to break the news to you, but we cannot teach you the basics of script programming in specifc, programming in general and how a UNIX system works over the internet in a forum. This is simply not the right place for such an endeavour and i suggest you get a good book about this, take some classes or whatever means of getting tought about the topic is available for you. If this will leave specific questions you will be welcome to ask them here and get answers.
Second: we want to help, but we cannot do your work for you. We all have jobs of our own and cannot do yours. We can help you to help yourself but this is "UNIX for beginners", not "have your script written for you by willing volunteers".
There i suggest you rethink your attitude and/or the correlation of job requirements in contrast to your expertise and start over.
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)
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)
hi,
I am in a weird situation. I have a parent tarball which contains 2 sub tarballs.
The structure is such :
Parent.tar.gz ---- > child1.tar.gz and child2.tar.gz
I need to get the size of the parent tarball without untaring it
I know that the command is gunzip -c parent.tar.gz | wc -c ... (1 Reply)
Hi All
I have searched the possibility of this options everywhere but am unable to find it in any forum.
I have a tar file inside which there are n number of files and i dont know them. I need to grep a word inside the tar file and need to know in which file the word resides.
> cat a... (2 Replies)
I am fairly new to scripting.
I have a script to untar files as they come in.
I keep scripts in one directory: /Scripts
I get a tar'ed file in /Processing
*CMD*
$tar -xfv /Processing/File.tar
When i run the script the untared files are placed in /Scripts
i did some hunting around and... (2 Replies)
Trying to write a script to do the following.
scp to all redhat linux host and install a antivirus tarball. Need to know what additional syntax to use to untar the file and execute the install.sh inside the tarball and then remove the tarball on all remote hosts.
Here is what I have so... (2 Replies)
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)
Hi all,
How to untar a file having .tarz extension?
i tried this
tar -xvfz file.tarz
but i'm getting error like
tar: z: unknown function modifier
Usage: tar {c|r|t|u|x}] {file | -I include-file | -C directory file}...
Can anyone help me out in this....
Thanks in advance.... (2 Replies)
Hello,
I made a tar with a lot of file, and i deleted all the Files.
So to win tile I want to make a grep of this tar file to search any text .
Is there a Unix command available for this ?
I tried : grep xyz file.tar but there is nothing .
Thanks for your help.... (1 Reply)