question about TAR

[Ouattara Oumar Aziz (alias wattazoum)]

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Felipe Figueiredo a écrit :
> Em Thursday 29 November 2007 20:14:18 Ouattara Oumar Aziz (alias wattazoum) 
> escreveu:
>> Hello
>>
>> I would like to know if it's possible to transfer a file from one tar
>> archive to another (without untarring it on the disk)
>>
>> For example , I have a 2GB dir in a TAR archive and I want to transfer a
>> subdir of 1GB to another TAR file. I don't have 1GB free on my disk .
>> Can Tar handle this ?
>>
> 
> have you tried this?
> 
> tar xf archive1.tar relative/path/to/file | tar rf \
>  archive2.tar -
> 
>
Hello, Just tried :

:~$ tar xf Document.tar Documents/WATTAZOUM.tar.gz | tar rf video.tar -
tar: -: ne peut stat: Aucun fichier ou répertoire de ce type
tar: Statut d'erreur reporté d'erreurs précédentes.

I had seen this kind of command but it was for transfering files from
one tape to another.



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