This should go into the Linux_common.ksh library file
cr_tar_apex_common() { # Create the tar file tar -cvf /oracle/admin/scripts/mrc/apex_common_09062017.tar /oracle/admin/scripts/apex/*.ksh /oracle/admin/scripts/dba120/apex6 }
tar --help
Examples:
# Create archive.tar from files foo and bar.
tar -cf archive.tar foo bar
# List all files in archive.tar verbosely.
tar -tvf archive.tar
# Extract all files from archive.tar
tar -xf archive.tar
On Linux using -cvf will
c = create a tar
v = verbosely list the files
f = use archive file
The tar command allows creating a .tar file that can be gziped for easier transmit and smaller size
To pull a file from the archive you can use this tar -xzf archive.tar.gz my/path/to/file.txt To list the files in the archive tar tzf archive.tar.gz
t = list
z = zipped
v = verbose (if you include this you will see the dates of the files)
f = file archive
tar does not support "in-place" updating of files. However, you can add files to the end of an archive, even if they have the same path as a file already in the archive. In that case, both copies of the file will be in the archive, and the file added later will override the earlier one. The command to use for this is tar r (or tar u to only add files that are newer than the archive) is the command to use. The . in the path should not be a problem.
There is a catch, though: you can't add to a compressed archive. So you would have to do:
Unzip the tar gunzip archive.tar.gz add to the tar file once it is unzipped tar rf archive.tar data/data/com.myapp.backup/./files/settings.txt rezip the tar file gzip archive.tar add to the mrc_10192017.tar file unzipped tar -rvf mrc_10192017.tar /oracle/admin/scripts/mrc/nc1xtxsb03