We have been provided a .dump file.The need is to extract the contents(may includes files and folder).
ls -lZ didnt help me as Z is not a valid option.
How to extract the file contents ?
Is this an ufsdump archive? In such case, you can list its content with:
ufsrestore ta filename.dump
Otherwise, what says:
file filename.dump
?
ufsrestore ta <file_name>.dump
Volume is not in dump format
OK. So we now know that this is not a ufsdump dump file.
So, as jlliagre suggested, what is the output from the command:
file filename.dump
IF we cannot know the file type (what application/utility created the file in the first place) we cannot help you.
when i did as mentioned above i found then type as follows
<file_name>: commands text
I suspect it is a text file then.Please correct me if wrong
That's a good guess.
What makes you feel this file contains itself files and directories that need to be extracted?
Did you look at its contents? eg:
less filename.dump
yes i just realized that as its been created in SVN repository, it needs to be extracted in a different manner than usual.
svnload admin <path_to_extract> < file.dump
thanks all for your help