Mail Archives: cygwin/2004/11/22/09:36:00
Thank you very much. Now at least I know that (a) pax is not officially part
of cygwin yet, and (b) where I can download the sources to compile it myself
if I feel safe with an alpha version.
Does that version for the MS Resource Kit work on XP? That's probably the
version I had under Win2K .
I did see a version available in the SFU which can be downloaded free, but
that seems like overkill just to get one utility.
I'm assuming that the one from alpha.gnu.org is not stable yet. Is there a
way to download the one from the resource kit (I've googled for it and can't
find it anywhere) which I'm sure is stable.
Chuck
----- Original Message -----
From: "Reini Urban" <rurban AT x-ray DOT at>
To: "Chuck" <SkiLover AT softhome DOT net>
Cc: <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Sent: Saturday, November 20, 2004 3:29 AM
Subject: Re: pax available?
> Chuck schrieb:
> > I'm actually referring to pax format archives (ustar).
> >
> > I want to be able to unarchive files - many files - but changing one
string
> > in the name to another. I typically use it to clone databases on
Solaris. I
> > may have 15 mount points all with a subdirectory named DB1. When I
extract
> > the files, I don't want to put them into the DB1 subdirectories. I want
to
> > put them into subdirectories named DB2. Or maybe I want to restore them
to
> > different mount points. Whatever. Unless I'm misunderstanding you I'd
have
> > to do each one separately with unzip. There could be hundreds within one
> > archive. With pax I can have the utility rename them all automatically
as it
> > extracts them with a simple command like...
> >
> > pax -r -s/DB1/DB2/p < filename.pax
>
> pax is in the package paxutils, which is not yet in cygwin.
> http://directory.fsf.org/paxutils.html
>
> Mark H. Colburn <markcol AT jhereg DOT com> created another `pax' program in
> 1989. The 1.1 version was published in comp.sources.unix, volume 17.
> From a 2.0 OS/2 port, Ian Stewartson made 2.1 and is working on version
> 2.2. ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/utils/compress/pax-2.1.tar.gz
>
> However it's straightforward to build paxutils. (into /usr/local)
>
> cd /usr/src
> wget ftp://alpha.gnu.org/pub/gnu/paxutils/paxutils-2.4h.tar.gz
> tar xfz paxutils-2.4h.tar.gz
> cd paxutils-2.4h
> ./configure
> make && make check
> make install DESTDIR=/usr/src/paxutils-2.4h/.inst
>
> several tar tests will fail:
> 44. ./t-create.m4:3 ok
> 45. ./t-create.m4:14 ignored near `t-create.m4:14'
> 46. ./t-create.m4:40 ok
> 47. ./t-create.m4:56 ok
> 48. ./t-create.m4:76 FAILED near `t-create.m4:120'
> 49. ./t-extract.m4:3 ok
> 50. ./t-extract.m4:17 ignored near `t-extract.m4:17'
> 51. ./t-extract.m4:37 ok
> 52. ./t-extract.m4:53 ok
> 53. ./t-extract.m4:68 ok
> 54. ./t-exclude.m4:3 ok
> 55. ./t-append.m4:3 ok
> 56. ./t-delete.m4:3 FAILED near `t-delete.m4:16'
> 57. ./t-delete.m4:20 ok
> 58. ./t-incremen.m4:3 FAILED near `t-incremen.m4:23'
> 59. ./t-incremen.m4:27 ok
> 60. ./t-gzip.m4:3 ok
> 61. ./t-volume.m4:3 ok
> mv: cannot move `stderr2' to `stderr': Permission denied
> ...
>
> Note that paxutils includes unstable versions of tar and cpio. That
> might be the explanation why.
>
> I have another version from the MS resource kit:
> $ pax --help
> c:\WINNT\system32\pax.exe: illegal option---
> Usage: c:\WINNT\system32\pax.exe -[cimopuvy] [-f archive] [-s replstr]
> [-t device] [pattern...]
> c:\WINNT\system32\pax.exe -r [-cimopuvy] [-f archive] [-s replstr] [-t
> device] [pattern...]
> c:\WINNT\system32\pax.exe -w [-adimuvy] [-b blocking] [-f archive] [-s
> replstr] [-t device] [-x format] [pathname...]
> c:\WINNT\system32\pax.exe -r -w [-ilmopuvy] [-s replstr] [pathname...]
> directory
>
> For more information on c:\WINNT\system32\pax.exe syntax, see Command
> Reference Help in the Windows Help file.
> --
> Reini Urban
> http://xarch.tu-graz.ac.at/home/rurban/
>
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