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1. HP-UX
Hello,
I will like to execute a find, tar & gzip in one command.
find * -type f -mtime -$nb_days -print | xargs tar -cvf $MAITUT/BCK_DATA.tar
gzip $MAITUT/BCK_DATA.tar.gz
The fact that the TAR is very big, at the end I need to generate only a compress file.
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi all,
I have created a function that looks for a folder in a particular directory, checks the date it was last modified and if its old then compress it.
This works fine for files using gzip. However for folders I had to use tar. This is my function:
compressOldFolder()
{
# $1 is... (10 Replies)
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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. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I'm trying to find all tar and compressed files (say gzip). I'm having to assume that the tar and gzip files may or may not have the correct extension (.tar .gz .tgz etc).
Any help appreciated (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: andyatit
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5. Shell Programming and Scripting
I'm tring to:
find files recursively older than x days that contain dat or DAT then tar them
I can find the files older than 90 days containing dat with this:
find . -mtime +90 -type f -name "*dat*" -exec tar -cvvfp /some/path/some.tar {} \;
but how do I do it case insensitive?
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Discussion started by: Ikon
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6. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hey there I am just looking for a way to find a corrupt tar file. I want to write a script to help sift through the 1000's of tar files we go through daily and move any corrupt ones to a different directory structure. Is there an easy way to do this. (4 Replies)
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7. 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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8. Shell Programming and Scripting
The below tar command works fine for me,
tar -cvf - `find ./srcdir -type d` | (cd ./destdir ; tar -xvf - )
but this version is giving error to me:
cd ./srcdir &&
tar -cf - . |
gzip -9 |
cd ../destdir &&
gzip -d |
tar -xf -
error is: gzip: compressed data not read from a terminal.... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: royalibrahim
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9. Shell Programming and Scripting
I'm trying to tar the files I get from the 'find' command result. However I can't make it run successfuly? This is for our archiving process.
Here is my script:
find /mnt/LOGS -mtime -10 -name "TUXLOG.*" -exec tar -cvf /mnt/LOGS/combine.tar {} \;
Im not sure why it is not working or it is... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: kharen11
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10. Shell Programming and Scripting
I'm trying to set up a stanard sh script that will find all the files that have been changed within the last day and then tar them up.
I think the command line should be something like :
find /home/bob -atime +0 -exec \ tar cvf /home/bob/files.tar {}\;
Help please ...
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Discussion started by: ianf
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