Steps to untar file in aix 5.2

[zircon06]

I have a file upgrade.tar. Any one tell me step to untar this file after ftp to aix box.

Thanks in advance

 

[sbrews]

copy the file to a directory of your choice and type:

tar -xf upgrade.tar

If you want to see the files as they are extracted from the tar file, type this:

tar -xvf upgrade.tar



Add a little color to your PUTTY terminal: faq52-6627

 

[KenCunningham]

Careful if the tar file was created with absolute pathnames as there is a chance of overwriting any other valid file(s) you may have. You can check without untarring anything using tar -tvf upgrade.tar.

I want to be good, is that not enough?

 

[cts123]

Ken is more correct.

Before doing untar, see the contents of the file by "tar -tvf" and then you can extract by "tar -xvf" option.

You can also selcetively restore a file from that tar file.

Like, tar -xvf upgrade.tar <file_name>

The desired file will be restored.

Regards,
Sam

 

[zircon06]

Thanks all for the input but it is adding ^M into files when doing ftp files into aix box from windows. Anyone idea to fix this bug

 

[khalidaaa]

^M???? I'm not sure of that but are u sure that the file doesn't have spaces? Is the file in a binary format? if so type "bin" before ftping the file!

Could you show us an example of this ^M that you have so i can understand what exactly you are talking about?

Regards,
Khalid

 

[KenCunningham]

I don't think AIX includes dos2unix (which would do the job), but this should do the job of stripping out the ^M:

sed 's/^M//g' file > newfile
mv newfile file

I want to be good, is that not enough?