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1. Shell Programming and Scripting
I have a directory tree containing archive .tar.gz files that I want to extract at the location where they recide.
How can I achieve such an operation? (7 Replies)
Discussion started by: kristinu
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2. OS X (Apple)
Hi
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)
Discussion started by: kalbano
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3. Ubuntu
while extracting a tar.bz2 file using the command
tar xjf git.tar.bz2
I received error messages that shows Cannot hard link to and Cannot create symlink to error messages
what will be the reason for those error messages. (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: saravana krishn
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4. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
I am trying to extract tar file of size 167MB but most of the times tar command stuck while extraction.
Command:
new 24389 24369 0 Nov21 ? 00:00:00 tar -xf NCSanJose1_req_rep.tar
While running process with gdb following back trace was obtain:
... (24 Replies)
Discussion started by: freebee
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5. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hey guys complete n00b here so I'll try my best at explaining.
I'm creating a backup and restore utility and decided to use tar. I create a backup folder in each user's account and when backing up (say word processing files), I use the following:
tar cvf /home/user/backup/wpbackup.tar... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: EwanD
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6. Filesystems, Disks and Memory
forgive my ignorance.
I did a search of this sub-forum for "tar -xp" and variations on the same w\out success, so here goes...
Scenario:
filename.tar file.
Desired Task:
I want to be able to extract only files from the user's public_html folder (and all those under it as an option) from... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: Habitual
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7. UNIX for Dummies 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 was... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: nmalencia
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8. 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)
Discussion started by: nmalencia
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9. 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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10. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users
hi
could any body tell me how to extract .tar.bz2 files
i tried using tar but in vain.
i found bzip2 in googling but i could not find it on machine unix tru64
please suggest. (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: Raom
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