topic Re: Regarding tar command in Operating System - HP-UX

Regarding tar command

Kavita Poonia — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 13:06:21 GMT

Hello there,

I just want to make a tar of a directory which contain subdirectories. Which command should I issue for this to have a tar of that directory.

Thanks a lot!

Re: Regarding tar command

TT-Atif — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 05:24:01 GMT

Hi
I am not a *nix expert but I use following command to tar a file
tar -cvf file.tar myfile.txt
This command is creating a tar file (file.tar) for the original file (myfile.txt).

Regards

Re: Regarding tar command

Kavita Poonia — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 09:15:39 GMT

Thanks a lot Atif for your reply but i want to make tar of a directory containing subdirectories and not a file.

Re: Regarding tar command

Yngvi Thorfinnsson — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 10:32:28 GMT

Hi , by default the tar will also work on all sub-dirs, i.e.:
tar -cvf home.tar /home
will tar all files and directories under /home
(at least on HP-UX systems)

Re: Regarding tar command

Sajjad Sahir — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 06:29:37 GMT

see above answer regarding tar
it will tar all files and subdirectories in that directory under home
if u want to extract it u can use tar -xvf command.

Re: Regarding tar command

Kavita Poonia — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 07:03:13 GMT

Thanks a lot Yngvi and Sajjad. Your answers were really helpful.

Re: Regarding tar command

Sajjad Sahir — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 07:33:37 GMT

if u want to take tar file has some limitation in size so normally in hp-ux peoples are using fbakcup command for backup
it will take more than 2gb size

Re: Regarding tar command

Kavita Poonia — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 08:50:44 GMT

Okay!!!!!!!!!
We can use fbackup too