Compresion

linuxsoundprob · 08-26-2003, 03:47 AM

Can some body please tell me all the unziping commands for all the different types of compressed file , i.e tar zip
I need to extract into folders

leonscape · 08-26-2003, 03:52 AM

tar -xvzf thefile.tar.gz
tar -xvjf thefile.tar.bzip2
tar -xvf thefile.tar
unzip thefile.zip

What others are bothering you?

linuxsoundprob · 08-26-2003, 03:55 AM

i have ssh access to the box, but i dont want to screw it up installing unzip , isnt there already a program on there?

And also if i have a shell script keepprogrun.sh
with a couple of screen command and start command in it
If i wanted to add to it would i just edit it and thne do ./keepprogrun ?? or would i have to stop it ? first then run ita gain
.
Also i would like to know how to stop programs

linuxsoundprob · 08-26-2003, 04:00 AM

its unzips the files with names likes this \\folder\\filename.txt
instead of making thoose files , it was a tar.gz

leonscape · 08-26-2003, 04:01 AM

I don't think installing unzip would bother the box, as most Linux updates and installs do not require restarts of the machine.

Why don't you unzip the files on the current machine then pass it too the machine you connected too?

If all that script did was kick of a couple of commands, it should of exited. and so yes you should be quite able to just re-run it.

To stop a something running already, try kill. do man kill to get the list of options available, also look up the program top.

linuxsoundprob · 08-26-2003, 04:09 AM

Also how do i extract a tarball to a location , but then instead of overwrting whole folders just extract the files inot the folder for example
the tarball contained
admin\file\123\linux.txt
and i extracted it to
files\ which contained the folder \admin\admin\file\123\ with files already in it, so it would just add lunux.txt to that folder ?

leonscape · 08-26-2003, 04:10 AM

Yes it would just add it.

linuxsoundprob · 08-26-2003, 04:12 AM

could i use tar then , cp -u /folder/ /dest/

?

linuxsoundprob · 08-26-2003, 04:14 AM

so if it would just add it how do i specifie location ?

and are u sure it wont overwrite the whole folders ?

linuxsoundprob · 08-26-2003, 04:14 AM

i got it tar xvzf tar location

linuxsoundprob · 08-26-2003, 04:19 AM

also whats the command to delete a file / folder ?

leonscape · 08-26-2003, 04:21 AM

rm to delete a file
rmdir to delete a directory.

To delete all files, and sub directories in a directory, and the directory itself.

rm -r thedirectory

linuxsoundprob · 08-26-2003, 04:35 AM

cheers