topic Re: untar in Operating System - HP-UX

untar

sam kim_1 — Tue, 22 Aug 2000 13:49:57 GMT

1) i just xferred a file using ftp from nt to hpux 11.x machine
2) then, i confirmed that the file
'vhpx407e.tar.z' is existing under root directory
3) then, i tried to untar (or unzip?) using several commands such as
4)#zcat vhpx407e.tar.z | tar -xf -
#zcat vhpx407e.tar.z | tar xf-
#zcat vhpx407e.tar.z | tar -xf
5)but the result is 'no such file or directory..'
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i have no clue and
'# man zcat' does not give me much ideas either !!

Re: untar

Stefan Farrelly — Tue, 22 Aug 2000 13:52:58 GMT

If the file has come from an NT box its unlikely to be in HP's compress format, try using gunzip or gzcat instead.

Re: untar

John Palmer — Tue, 22 Aug 2000 13:53:10 GMT

zcat expects the file to have a .Z subscript that is a capital Z.

Re: untar

Antoanetta Naghiu — Tue, 22 Aug 2000 13:55:24 GMT

mv vhpx407e.tar.z vhpx407e.tar.Z
uncompress vhpx407e.tar.Z
tar xvf vhpx407e.tar

Re: untar

Rick Garland — Tue, 22 Aug 2000 13:56:04 GMT

The 'z' at the end of the file is most likely capitalized. This is a compressed file. To uncompress, use the 'uncompress' command. Remember to be aware of the pathing issues when using the tar command. You may want to start out by using the 'tar -tvf '. This will provide a table of contents to the tarball without doing and writing the tarball to disk. Again, be careful with the pathing issue in the tar command.

Re: untar

sam kim_1 — Tue, 22 Aug 2000 13:59:15 GMT

i tried:
1) # gunzip vhpx407e.tar.z | tar -xf (or xf, xf-, -xf -)
2) # gzcat vhpx407e.tar.z | tar -xf - (or xf, xf-, -xf -)
3)result: nothing is working so far!!

Re: untar

John Palmer — Tue, 22 Aug 2000 14:06:21 GMT

How did you create the file on NT and did you ftp it in binary mode?

Re: untar

sam kim_1 — Tue, 22 Aug 2000 14:37:48 GMT

thanks all and have a good day!!