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1. OS X (Apple)
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I have a few hundred files with extension .tar.Z. These files were archived (tar) and compressed (Z) on a UNIX system. I need to unzip them but not extract them. In other words they need to go to .tar extension. I would like to do this on my MAC or on a windows pc. I do not have a UNIX... (3 Replies)
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
I was extracting the zipped tar file with the command
gzip -dc Sample.tar.gz |tar xf -
The tar file contained many delimited files; but lately they changed the structure of the tar file with another folder. So now all the delimited files are inside a folder called "Folder1" and the folder... (6 Replies)
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3. Homework & Coursework Questions
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1. The problem statement, all variables and given/known data:
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I wish to create a single .tar file of the current directory but have literally no idea on where to... (8 Replies)
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4. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users
Hi,
I want to tar files and zip them in order to clean up space in directory. I have files like /path/file1 /path file2.
What I am trying to do is:
Option 1:
tar -cvf /path/file1 /path file2 | gzip > test.tar.gz
I got the file created. But while trying to extract the Tar and zipped file, I... (1 Reply)
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5. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi there,
I have one huge archive (it's a system image).
I need sometime to create smaller archives with only one or two file from my big archive.
So I'm looking for a command that extracts files from an archive and pipe them to another one.
I tried the following :
tar -xzOf oldarchive.tgz... (5 Replies)
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6. Programming
I want to write a c-program which reads a textfile from a tar.gz archive.
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7. Solaris
Is there an option in tar which deletes the .tar file as soon as it is successfully extracted. (5 Replies)
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8. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi All,
I would like to extract specific file from a zip archive.
I have a zip archive "sample.zip".
sample.zip contains few text files and images... text1.txt, text2.txt, pic.jpg etc...
I need to read specific file "text2.txt" from "sample.zip" WITHOUT EXTRACTING the zip file.
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9. UNIX Desktop Questions & Answers
Can I extract files from an archive file (tar), where the filename includes the full directory path, to a different directory?
For example the archive files may have a filename of
/SrcFiles/XXX/filename.dat
and I want to extract it to /SrcFiles/YYY/filename.dat. Since the archive file... (1 Reply)
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10. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Dear experts
I have received a tar file containing several files with full path. Now I need to restore it in another system but when I want to extract files by using
tar -xvf tarfile
it wants to create all files with full paths again in new system in which I don't have enough previleges.
How... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: Reza Nazarian
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