- Community Home
- >
- Servers and Operating Systems
- >
- Operating Systems
- >
- Operating System - HP-UX
- >
- Help with uncompressing from anywere other than /t...
Categories
Company
Local Language
Forums
Discussions
Forums
- Data Protection and Retention
- Entry Storage Systems
- Legacy
- Midrange and Enterprise Storage
- Storage Networking
- HPE Nimble Storage
Discussions
Discussions
Discussions
Forums
Forums
Discussions
Discussion Boards
Discussion Boards
Discussion Boards
Discussion Boards
- BladeSystem Infrastructure and Application Solutions
- Appliance Servers
- Alpha Servers
- BackOffice Products
- Internet Products
- HPE 9000 and HPE e3000 Servers
- Networking
- Netservers
- Secure OS Software for Linux
- Server Management (Insight Manager 7)
- Windows Server 2003
- Operating System - Tru64 Unix
- ProLiant Deployment and Provisioning
- Linux-Based Community / Regional
- Microsoft System Center Integration
Discussion Boards
Discussion Boards
Discussion Boards
Discussion Boards
Discussion Boards
Discussion Boards
Discussion Boards
Discussion Boards
Discussion Boards
Discussion Boards
Discussion Boards
Discussion Boards
Discussion Boards
Discussion Boards
Discussion Boards
Discussion Boards
Discussion Boards
Discussion Boards
Discussion Boards
Discussion Boards
Discussion Boards
Discussion Boards
Community
Resources
Forums
Blogs
- Subscribe to RSS Feed
- Mark Topic as New
- Mark Topic as Read
- Float this Topic for Current User
- Bookmark
- Subscribe
- Printer Friendly Page
- Mark as New
- Bookmark
- Subscribe
- Mute
- Subscribe to RSS Feed
- Permalink
- Report Inappropriate Content
тАО03-07-2019 07:31 AM
тАО03-07-2019 07:31 AM
Hello group!
I'm not a Unix guru and always ask questions before attenting something new.
I have instructions to uncompress a tar file. The tar file is currently in a unix folder /dbms/peter/HPD/hpe_ltt426_hpux.tar. The instructions call to have the tar file in the /tmp directory and use tar -xvf hpe_ltt426_hpux.tar to uncompress. The tar file is too big to copy into the /tmp directory. Can I uncompress the tar file in it's current directory? In other words, can I execute /dbms/peter/HPD/tar -xvf hpe_ltt426_hpux.tar and have the same results as /tmp/tar -xvf hpe_ltt426_hpux.tar ?
Thanks,
-Peter G
Solved! Go to Solution.
- Mark as New
- Bookmark
- Subscribe
- Mute
- Subscribe to RSS Feed
- Permalink
- Report Inappropriate Content
тАО03-07-2019 12:12 PM - edited тАО03-07-2019 12:16 PM
тАО03-07-2019 12:12 PM - edited тАО03-07-2019 12:16 PM
Solution> I have instructions [...]
I can't see them from here.
> [...] to uncompress a tar file. [...]
And then do what? If the (invisible) instructions tell you to do
something involving a "/tmp" path, then you'll need to adjust them if
you extract the archive in some other place.
> [...] Can I uncompress the tar file in it's current directory?
"its", but sure -- anywhere you want (if you have write permission
there, and it has enough space).
> [...] can I execute /dbms/peter/HPD/tar -xvf hpe_ltt426_hpux.tar [...]
Probably not. I doubt that the "tar" program will be found at
"/dbms/peter/HPD/tar". What you could do would be something like:
cd /dbms/peter/HPD/
tar -xvf hpe_ltt426_hpux.tar
> [...] /tmp/tar -xvf hpe_ltt426_hpux.tar [...]
Similarly (as I assume that the (invisible) instructions suggest):
cd /tmp
tar -xvf hpe_ltt426_hpux.tar
> [...] and have the same results as [...]
Essentially, except that the extracted files would be in a different
place. Depending on what's in /dbms/peter/HPD/ and how the archive was
constructed, it might make some sense to extract the archive contents
into a clean, new directory, and then work with them there. For
example:
cd /dbms/peter/HPD/
mkdir tmp
cd tmp # NOT "/tmp"!
tar -xvf ../hpe_ltt426_hpux.tar
Then, when you're finished, you could delete (or do whatever you want
with) the whole "/dbms/peter/HPD/tmp" tree, and you shouldn't have
any/much new clutter in "/dbms/peter/HPD".
For a good time:
tar -tvf hpe_ltt426_hpux.tar
and see if the archive was built with a top-level directory. If all its
member files have paths like, say:
hpe_ltt426_hpux/file_name1
hpe_ltt426_hpux/file_name2
hpe_ltt426_hpux/dir3/file_name3
and so on, instead of, say:
file_name1
file_name2
dir3/file_name3
then you wouldn't need to create a clean, new ("tmp") directory to
isolate the archive contents, because that way they would all be in that
(new) "hpe_ltt426_hpux" directory.
- Mark as New
- Bookmark
- Subscribe
- Mute
- Subscribe to RSS Feed
- Permalink
- Report Inappropriate Content
тАО03-18-2019 09:04 AM
тАО03-18-2019 09:04 AM
Re: Help with uncompressing from anywere other than /tmp directory
Steve, thank you for your response. I heard from HPE support and they told me that the uncompressing must be performed fro the /tmp directory.
-Peter G
- Mark as New
- Bookmark
- Subscribe
- Mute
- Subscribe to RSS Feed
- Permalink
- Report Inappropriate Content
тАО03-18-2019 11:35 AM
тАО03-18-2019 11:35 AM
Re: Help with uncompressing from anywere other than /tmp directory
> [...] I heard from HPE support and they told me that the uncompressing
> must be performed fro the /tmp directory.
Sounds to me like drivel. Did you believe them?
My Google search for that file name found one (and a
"hpe_ltt426_hpux_1131.tar", which might be newer?), so I fetched a copy,
and looked at it. I see:
pro3$ tar tfv hpe_ltt426_hpux.tar
-rw-r--r-- 0 root sys 368650240 Mar 14 2018 ./HPE_LTT426.depot
-rwxr--r-- 0 root sys 1798 Mar 14 2018 ./install_hpeltt
That is, one giant depot and a short installation script. I don't see
"tmp" anywhere in that script:
pro3$ tar xfv hpe_ltt426_hpux.tar ./install_hpeltt
x ./install_hpeltt
pro3$ grep tmp ./install_hpeltt
pro3$
I also tried installing it (the "1131" edition):
dyi# uname -a HP-UX dyi B.11.31 U ia64 4235313755 unlimited-user license dyi# pwd # Note: Not "/tmp". /usr/patch/hpeltt/hpe_ltt426_hpux_1131 dyi# ls -l total 720144 -rw-r--r-- 1 root sys 368701440 Mar 14 2018 HPE_LTT426.depot -rwxr--r-- 1 root sys 1798 Mar 14 2018 install_hpeltt dyi# ./install_hpeltt Installing HPE Library and Tape Tools... Install requires approximately 25MB of free space under /opt Beginning swinstall process of HPE_LTT to /opt/ltt/ ======= 03/18/19 13:18:44 CDT BEGIN swinstall SESSION (non-interactive) (jobid=dyi-0085) * Session started for user "root@dyi". * Beginning Selection * Target connection succeeded for "dyi:/". * Source: /usr/patch/hpeltt/hpe_ltt426_hpux_1131/HPE_LTT426.depot * Targets: dyi:/ * Software selections: HPE_LTT426.HPE_LTT426,r=4.26.0.9,a=S700/800_HPUX_10/11,v=HPE * Selection succeeded. * Beginning Analysis and Execution * Session selections have been saved in the file "/root/.sw/sessions/swinstall.last". * "dyi:/": There will be no attempt to mount filesystems that appear in the filesystem table. * The execution phase succeeded for "dyi:/". * Analysis and Execution succeeded. NOTE: More information may be found in the agent logfile using the command "swjob -a log dyi-0085 @ dyi:/". ======= 03/18/19 13:18:55 CDT END swinstall SESSION (non-interactive) (jobid=dyi-0085) dyi#
I rest my case.