How To Extract A Rar File In Linux,file Was Located In Downloads,explain Clearly With

Hey everyone,

I am trying to find a way to untar a file.tar.gz in my home/noob directory into 15 different directories.

where the tar.gz file is located: /home/noob
where the 15 directories are located: /home/noob/Staging/ 1-15 folders

Without having to extract the tarball individually, is there a simple way in one or two commands that can take the tarball and extract it to all 15 folders ?

Please and thanks!

Trying to install software/drivers for wireless dongle on my Fedora Linux box. I have downloaded and expanded my files into my /home/me/Downloads.

In my example: /home/cjh/Downloads/LinuxDriver4Fedora_v2.5.0.3
This is where the make file is.

I run make and get an error:
"make -C /lib/modules/3.4.2-1.fc16.i686/build SUBDIRS=/home/cjh/Downloads/LinuxDriver4Fedora_v2.5.0.3/os/linux modules
make: *** /lib/modules/3.4.2-1.fc16.i686/build: No such file or directory. Stop.
make: *** [LINUX] Error 2"

The directory "/home/cjh/Downloads/LinuxDriver4Fedora_v2.5.0.3/os/linux" does exist.

What am I missing? I have run it as myself and root and get the same error.

Any assistance greatly appreciated.

TIA,

Skip

Hi there,

I'm just starting to use Linux Mint 17 and practising commands. I have wallpapers.tar.gz in the Downloads folder and want to extract it to my Pictures folder.

I type tar -xzvf wallpapers.tar.gz -C /Pictures but it says no such directory. What am I doing wrong? Thanks for looking.

I've worked with Linux in the past, but mostly Windows. Perhaps someone can explain what I am seeing. This isn't a Linux OS, but Tomcat running under Windows. I'm thinking Linux rules apply here, but if this is the wrong forum, I apologize in advance.

I've got an app that runs under Tomcat. I needed to modify an XML config file to change a variable. The path was \app\tomcat\webapps\asset-manager-web\WEB-INF\am\conf\settings. The file was configParams.xml.

To protect myself from messing things up, I first made a copy of configParams.xml and named it configParams-ORIG.xml. I left this in the same folder as the file I was going to edit. I made the required edits and restarted the application service. The app never recognized the changes. Finally, I moved the configParams-ORIG.xml file to another folder, restarted, and everything worked.

Can someone explain why this is? I do this in Windows all the time. Why does having that original file, renamed, in the same folder cause a problem?

I have a log file with a header (which I can skip with awk), and a footer, which I need to find a way to remove. The goal is to extract the middle lines from a file. Specifically, there is a header (1 line) and a footer (1 line).
The only way I can figure out how to do this is if I already know how many lines are in the file to begin with. For example, if the file looks like this: line 1 (header)
line 2 (interesting line)
line 3 (interesting line)
line 4 (footer)
I just want to extract the middle "interesting lines" without the header/footer lines.
I can't use grep to remove the header/footer, because I don't know what those lines will contain, only that they exist and are exactly 1 line each. In general, I don't know how many lines are in the file.

I have just downloaded imagemagick and when I try to convert a pdf file to a jpg file. I get the message no such file or directory. The file I want to convert is in Home/Downloads

My ubuntu defaults on VLC player for all downloads.
where do I find what application will just let me download a file.
instead of VLC media player?
and where is it found?

Hi guys

We are trying to move Oracle applications database tier archive, that is 111GB (over Linux) to a USB external drive using cp. Though the file successfully gets transferred to the external drive, trying to extract the file from a 2nd machine always fails, saying the archive is corrupt.
We have checked the integrity of the archive using 7-zip, reporting no errors. However totally frustrated as our last few attempts were totally futile.

The interesting part is, if we do scp to transfer the file to 2nd machine, extraction doesn't fail.

Please let us know, how we can successfully move this archive to the 2nd machine which is at a remote location and no possibilities of setting up a FTP for such a huge size file.

Both the source and destination Linux distros are RHEL 5 Enterprise, 64Bit, ext3 file systems.


regards,

Hi ,

Please explain what the below command means ..


Code:

if grep -c -i Y $INIFILE > /dev/null

I know what is the use of grep, it is used for finding a character or string in a file. But i could not understand the above form of grep command.

I am new to linux so this might be a simple question, but please throw some light on it.


Edited

And also please explain why they are creating a file in null in the below command

Code:

cat /dev/null > $DATA_DIR/$DATAFILE

Hi All,
I got stuck when i am trying to extract the data between a matched strings in a file which contains a million records with \t is the field seperator. i am getting that matched_string in only one particular field(5 field).

ex: fiel_name:siva.txt

record_1: a b c d _bb_vid:dfndjgddgn~~~ e f g
record_2: h g e f _bb_vid:kdjgfkdhjk~~~ k h d

like this lakhs of records will be there. i want add the result set into end of the file with \t as field seperator.

estimated_out_put:
record_1: a b c d _bb_vid:dfndjgddgn~~~ e f g dfndjgddgn
record_2: h g e f _bb_vid:kdjgfkdhjk~~~ k h d kdjgfkdhjk

please help me guys.