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1. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
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)
Discussion started by: sanjaydubey2006
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
I have a tar file that contains multiple .Z files. Hence I need to issue a tar command followed by a gzip command to fully extract the files. How do I do it in a single command?
What I'm doing now is
tar xvf a.tar (this will output 1.Z and 2.Z)
gzip -d *.Z (to extract 1.Z and 2.Z) (9 Replies)
Discussion started by: ericlim
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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. Linux
Hello everyone, I´ve got a problem when I try to untar a file.
The following errors appear:
tar: Skipping to next header
tar: Skipping to next header
tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors
Can anyone help me? Thanks in advance! (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: katkat
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5. 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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6. Solaris
I try to install globus toolkit 4 and have major problem
that's error in tar command while it install by make command
tar -C /usr/local/globus/ -xzf binary-trees/globus_libtool-*/*.tar.gz
tar: C: unknown function modifierand it notice me to use tar {c|r|t|u|x}
I think it can't use -z... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: Harmut
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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
i have some 685 files in my directory.Below the count:
find . -name "CurrentCollectorMeterReadBackup_2009*" -exec ls -ltr {} \; | wc -l
685
i want to tar them but it is telling me arg list too long. how to tar all this files in one shot
tar -cvf - -L... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: ali560045
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9. 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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10. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users
First of all I have already asked about this in the scripts/perl forum but the advice I got did not do the trick.
A script I have to use unzips some xxx.tar.gz files and then tries to tar -xvf them. on the tar -xvf I get the following:-
tar: code/sql: Cannot utime: Operation not permitted... (14 Replies)
Discussion started by: ajcannon
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