From: Green, Simon (Simon.Green@EU.ALTRIA.COM)
Date: Mon Mar 31 2003 - 10:02:12 EST
Could you set it up as a bff file? There are utilities about to produce
these, (Try the Bull site). It might need a bit of setting up, but it would
give you a simple installation.
(I'm guessing a bit here, as I've never done this myself.)
Simon Green
Altria ITSC Europe s.a.r.l.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Dunn [mailto:john.dunn@SEFAS.CO.UK]
> Sent: 31 March 2003 16:04
> To: aix-l@Princeton.EDU
> Subject: Re: interesting tar question
>
>
> Simon.
>
> Repeated frequently, so I need to automate it.
>
> What I am thinking now is that I will have to create the
> directory structure
> on AIX first and populate with the files, but I was hopeing
> to avoid that.
>
> John
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Green, Simon [mailto:Simon.Green@EU.ALTRIA.COM]
> Sent: 31 March 2003 15:43
> To: aix-l@Princeton.EDU
> Subject: Re: interesting tar question
>
>
> Sure; I understand that part. What I meant was why do you have this
> situation in the first place? Is this a one off task, or
> something which
> will be repeated frequently?
>
> Simon Green
> Altria ITSC Europe s.a.r.l.
>
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: John Dunn [mailto:john.dunn@SEFAS.CO.UK]
> > Sent: 31 March 2003 15:45
> > To: aix-l@Princeton.EDU
> > Subject: Re: interesting tar question
> >
> >
> > Basically I have a single directory full of files and have
> to create a
> > single tar file which when untarred will place each file into
> > a specific
> > directory/subdirectory based upon values in the file. That directory
> > structure will not exist on the source AIX system, in fact
> the target
> > directory names will be windows directories, e,g
> > D:\directoryname\subdirectoryname. I can assume that the
> > toplevel directory
> > D: will exist on the target machine but nothing else will.
> >
> > John
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Green, Simon [mailto:Simon.Green@EU.ALTRIA.COM]
> > Sent: 31 March 2003 15:28
> > To: aix-l@Princeton.EDU
> > Subject: Re: interesting tar question
> >
> >
> > You can't do this with tar.
> > You might be able to achieve what you want with pax, using
> > the -i flag.
> >
> > There may be a better solution; what are you tying to do?
> >
> > Simon Green
> > Altria ITSC Europe s.a.r.l.
> >
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> >
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> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: John Dunn [mailto:john.dunn@SEFAS.CO.UK]
> > > Sent: 31 March 2003 15:04
> > > To: aix-l@Princeton.EDU
> > > Subject: interesting tar question
> > >
> > >
> > > I have a need to create a tar file that will create a
> > > directory structure on
> > > the target system that does not exist on the source system.
> > >
> > > i.e, although all the files will be in a single directory on
> > > the source
> > > system, I want to specify, on an individual basis, the path
> > > for each file on
> > > the target platform.
> > >
> > > Is this possible?
> >
>
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