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tar -xvzf /home/user/Downloads/chkrootkit.tar.gz -C /home/user/Dump
this will "untar" the contents of /home/user/Downloads/chkrootkit.tar.gz in the folder /home/user/Dump and (possibly - depending on what's inside the archive) make its own folder there...
you forgot the "z" option, I see this is a .gz (read Zip - hence the "z")
Try this instead:
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tar -xvzf /u03/apps_st.gz -C /u02/backup
By the way, you do realize that you need to use the /full/path/from/the/top ...
The given command assumes folders u03 and u02 to be in the top level, this is not a very clever idea...you may (as normal user) not even have the permissions to do that, if so, you may need to use sudo:
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sudo tar -xvzf /u03/apps_st.gz -C /u02/backup
at witch point the system will ask the root password.
If, however,these are located in your home folder (say), I'd add the full path
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tar -xvzf /home/yourfolder/u03/apps_st.gz -C /home/yourfolder/u02/backup
Are you wanting to just copy files from one place to another maintaining permisssions?
to copy files from your current dir to another dir:
tar Ecf - . | ( cd /directory/where/you/want/to/copy2; tar xfp -)
And Solaris does not support the z option like Linux does.
Thanks for all your assistance.
The command i have used is tar cvf. the name i have given only the name as name.gz format, howver i have not used z in my tar command.I can used tar c /location where i want to copy/ tar xcf.
Distribution: Solaris 11.4, Oracle Linux, Mint, Debian/WSL
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As you have stored a non relative path in your archive, you can't restore it to a different location with a regular Unix tar. Gnu tar is ignoring the leading slash so that might be a solution but you might be hit by compatibility issues.
With regular Solaris tools, you can restore a tar archive elsewhere by using the pax command.
For example this command extracts to the current directory all the files present in your tar file, removing its hierarchy:
Code:
pax -r -s '/.*\///' -f apps_st.gz
Last edited by jlliagre; 05-02-2011 at 10:51 AM.
Reason: typo
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