Hi all,

I need to know the command to tar & untar a folder with the file permission intact thru TELNET.

Thanks

Originally posted by DJ
Hi all,

I need to know the command to tar & untar a folder with the file permission intact thru TELNET.

Thanks

What OS?

Sorry, forget to mention it is UNIX

thanks

I know it is Unix, but what is it? Redhat, BSD ?

This should work:

tar -xvf yourfile.tar

This will extract the file in the current directory.

Permissions should be kept intact, however, this is not true for every OS. I would just set the permissions any way. You can just change the permissions using chmod.

Hope this helps! :)

Sorry again. It is RedHat.

There is too many files with all sort of permission thus i would not want to CHMOD again.

Any help would be greatly appreciated :)

There is really nothing you can do that I am aware of that will preserve permissions. Permissions should be preserved by default. I am not sure though if Redhat will do that, otherwise you will need to chmod them again.

DJ, first you have to be one level above the directory you want to tar. For example, if you want to tar
foo/bar, then you will be in foo and type the following:
tar -cvf bar.tar bar

This will create the archive bar.tar. To untar it, you will be again in foo, and type this:
tar -xvpf bar.tar
Notice the 'p' which tells tar explicitly to keep permissions intact while extracting.

I hope this helps a bit

Thanks Wazeh for helping out. I didn't know the p would do that!
:)

It doesn't answer the original question, but most of these 'How do I use foobar command under *NIX' can be answered using the 'man' system (short for manual).

At a command line simply type:

man <command>

or in this case

man tar

HINT: Use cursors to scroll, 'q' to quit ;)

Use the manuals! They are [usually] your friends :cool:

HTH