Uncompress Tar file.

[AjayYadav]

Hi,

When i am uncompressing tar file Using "tar -xvf xyz.tar" command. It does not extracts file has file name more than 24 character.
the file has name more than 24 character it cut it to 24 character.

please give me solution that how to extract file has name more than 24. I read some thing N and O which talk about this but didn't get solution.

Its urgent help me soon.

-Thanks,
Ajay

[Steven E. Protter]

Shalom,

Perhaps your version of tar is very old, or the filesystem its sitting on does not support long names.

OS?

which tar
what tar

SEP

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi:

I suspect that you have a display problem.

Regards!

...JRF...

[AjayYadav]

I made a archive file using tar command (tar cvf)in Linux. Now i am extracting same file in HPUX using "tar -xvf"
Linux :Redhat Enterprises Linux 4 AS
Tar version is:1.4 at Linux machine. (1.4 is new version but no idea about HPUX machine)
HPUX version is: HP-UX lat B.11.31 U ia64

Anything you want to know? plz let me know?

[OldSchool]

well....you may be having issues given that Linux uses GNU tar, which isn't necessarily compatible w/ hp-ux tar. there are a variety of "options" in gnu tar that don't exist in the unix version.

you may want to download gnu tar and give that a try.

also, depending on how tar was built on the linux side, you may need to supply additional "format" flags when creating the tar file. on the linux side , "tar --help" should list the default "format" being used

[Torsten.]

You can also give gnu tar a try:

http://hpux.asknet.de/hppd/hpux/Gnu/tar-1.15.1/

[AjayYadav]

Hi All HPUX guys... i m wondering if no body faced this problem ?
I havn't got satisfactory answer yet.
If you HPUX guys are not facing such small problem then from whom should i expect solution?

I m simply extracting Tar file on HPUX i m seeing one more file named @LongLink with extracted folder.
Did anybody know how my problem will solve?
How should i extract? which option will give me absolute (full) file names?

Thanks for your help.

[Steven Schweda]

> [...] file named @LongLink [...]

Sounds like GNU "tar". Google found:

http://www.gnu.org/software/tar/

http://hpux.connect.org.uk/hppd/hpux/Gnu/tar-1.15.1/

[Yogeeraj_1]

hi Ajay,

The workaround would be to do a remote copy or mount a remote file system using NFS and copy the files directly.

just some thoughts.

you may also try pax and see if it works out well. (man pax for more information)

hope this helps too!

kind regards
yogeeraj

[OldSchool]

"Hi All HPUX guys... i m wondering if no body faced this problem ?
I havn't got satisfactory answer yet.
If you HPUX guys are not facing such small problem then from whom should i expect solution?"

well...three people (at least) told you that you probably needed to install GNU tar on HP-UX to make this work.............

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi Ajay:

> Hi All HPUX guys... i m wondering if no body faced this problem ? I havn't got satisfactory answer yet. If you HPUX guys are not facing such small problem then from whom should i expect solution?

It might have been more insightful to us if you had mentioned that the tar ball had been created on a Linux box, first, too!

Satisfactory answers require satisfactory questions with appropriate details.

...JRF...

[AjayYadav]

i used Pax and it works well. Thanks yogeeraj.

And i cant install GNU tar because i can do that but the tar i m giving to customer they dont even know what is problem in their tar so they will not install GNU tar.. so better option is to use pax.

Thanks for all. i will come again if i got any difficulty.
Thanks for all guys.

-Ajay