[RndTbl] Unix command line challenge!
Adam Thompson
athompso at athompso.net
Thu Oct 12 10:42:02 CDT 2017
On 2017-10-12 08:59, Kevin McGregor wrote:
> Given a gzipped cpio archive (12 GB!) with files in it like:
>
> wwdsvdccb101/root/data/ccb/ccbx/splapp/servers/myserver/tmp/.appmergegen_1347913274622/SPLWeb.ear/h7y1ba/data/xml/CILICEXP.xml
> wwdsvdccb101/root/data/ccb/ccbx/splapp/servers/myserver/tmp/.appmergegen_1347913274622/SPLWeb.ear/h7y1ba/data/xml/CILTSVTP.xml
> wwdsvdccb101/root/data/ccb/ccbx/splapp/servers/myserver/tmp/.appmergegen_1347913274622/SPLWeb.ear/h7y1ba/data/xml/C1LOOUPP.xml
> wwdsvdccb101/root/data/ccb/ccbx/splapp/servers/myserver/tmp/.appmergegen_1347913274622/SPLWeb.ear/h7y1ba/data/xml/CILTTRAL.xml
> wwdsvdccb101/root/data/ccb/ccbx/splapp/servers/myserver/tmp/.appmergegen_1347913274622/SPLWeb.ear/h7y1ba/data/xml/CILCSSPL.xml
> wwdsvdccb101/root/data/ccb/ccbx/splapp/servers/myserver/tmp/.appmergegen_1347913274622/SPLWeb.ear/h7y1ba/data/xml/CILTCLGP.xml
>
> How can I change the first component of the path to something else without unpacking the entire archive to disk first? Obviously I'll still have to un-gzip and de-cpio the whole 12GB while processing; I just don't want to put the whole thing on disk while I'm changing the path.
>
> Any ideas?
sed(1) :-D
Seriously, I don't think it's possible.
Almost all cpio(1)s support the "-r" flag for interactive renaming of
files, but that doesn't sound like it would be fun for you.
Best I can suggest is pre-create the directory structure you want, then
pre-create a matching tree of symlinks.
e.g.:
# mkdir wwdsvdccb202
# ln -s wwdsvdccb202 wwdsvdccb101
# gunzip file | cpio <magical extract flags>
then cpio(1) will extract the files under wwdsvdccb202, thinking it's
really under wwdsvdccb101. If you can't do that in the current
directory, then just fake it:
# mkdir /var/data/wwdsvdccb202
# ln -s /var/data/wwdsvdccb202 /tmp/wwdsvdccb101
# cd /tmp # gunzip file | cpio <magical extract flags>
Sorry I can't be of more help :-(
-Adam
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