(UNIX IBM AIX) When I restore an environment sometimes I just need specific files from a specific directory and as it takes too long to restore and untar the restore I was wondering if there's a command that would list the content of the restore so at least I'll be sure that the files exist.
For now I just untar the restore and wait for hours and then take the files I need.
I already tried wildcards and gtar -tvf
uncompress file.tar.Z|tar tvf -
uncompress file.tar.Z|tar xvf - /path/to/file
uncompress file.tar.Z|tar xvf - uncompress file.tar.Z|tar tvf - |grep wildcard
returns with error file.tar.Z not a compressed file
file file.tar.Z : data or International Language text
this one works for me but only on files that don't exceed 150g in size gtar xvzf file.tar.Z path/ yet most of the files are above 900g
file blocks on fsize=-1
No results till now but I hope I to find something with your help
The command to view the content of this file is:
uncompress file.tar.Z|tar tvf -
to extract particular file you can use the command:
uncompress file.tar.Z|tar xvf - /path/to/file
Be aware that you can't use wildcards with UNIX tar
If you want to use wildcard you should use something like:
`uncompress file.tar.Z|tar xvf - `uncompress file.tar.Z|tar tvf - |grep `wildcard`
Also do not forget to update the ulimit so
file(blocks) 2097151
represent the size bigger than your tar file. The number is in 512 bytes blocks