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by **lezaw..** » Thu, 18 Dec 1997 04:00:00

Hi, I am new in UNIX/Solaris, I have 10 files say file1.txt ... file10.txt
how can I make tar file for all these files. TIA. leza

by **Mike** » Thu, 18 Dec 1997 04:00:00

try tar xvf myfile.tar *.txt in the directory where these files live
(not necessarily required - but it makes it easier when you untar them)

> Hi, I am new in UNIX/Solaris, I have 10 files say file1.txt ... file10.txt
> how can I make tar file for all these files. TIA. leza

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by **Mike** » Thu, 18 Dec 1997 04:00:00

Mike has egg on his face and is red with embarra*t

That should be tar cvf myfile.tar *.txt - sorry about that

> try tar xvf myfile.tar *.txt in the directory where these files live
> (not necessarily required - but it makes it easier when you untar them)

> > Hi, I am new in UNIX/Solaris, I have 10 files say file1.txt ... file10.txt
> > how can I make tar file for all these files. TIA. leza

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> Please remove *NOSPAM* in your reply.

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by **Malka Friedm** » Fri, 19 Dec 1997 04:00:00

>try tar xvf myfile.tar *.txt in the directory where these files live

This is wrong! xvf is use to exctract files from tar file!!
You should do the following instead:
To get one tar file from all the files you need to use:
tar cvf myfile.tar *.txt ( in the directory where these files live)
To extract the tar file you use the xvf flags as follow:
tar xvf myfile.tar

>(not necessarily required - but it makes it easier when you untar them)

>> Hi, I am new in UNIX/Solaris, I have 10 files say file1.txt ... file10.txt
>> how can I make tar file for all these files. TIA. leza
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>is indistinguishable from magic."
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by **Quan T** » Fri, 19 Dec 1997 04:00:00

Perhaps you mean to says:
tar cvf myfile.tar *.txt

> try tar xvf myfile.tar *.txt in the directory where these files live
> (not necessarily required - but it makes it easier when you untar them)

> > Hi, I am new in UNIX/Solaris, I have 10 files say file1.txt ... file10.txt
> > how can I make tar file for all these files. TIA. leza

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> MICHAEL J. MINAMOTO
> Please remove *NOSPAM* in your reply.

> "Any sufficiently advanced technology
> is indistinguishable from magic."
> Arthur C. Clark

by **Erik W. Anders** » Fri, 19 Dec 1997 04:00:00

Quote:>Hi, I am new in UNIX/Solaris, I have 10 files say file1.txt ... file10.txt
>how can I make tar file for all these files. TIA. leza

UNIX> tar cvf /tmp/test.tar `ls file[0-9].txt file[0-9][0-9].txt`

This will create a "tar" file in "/tmp" containing >>all<< files in
the current directory that start with "file", contain one or two
numeric digits, and end with ".txt".

P.S. I'm sure some UNIX guru out there has a better method of
extracting those files names and passing them to tar :)

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