SAR files are delivered by SAP for releasing supportpackages of Kernel and other OS level binaries.
How to extract a SAR file in SAP in Unix based operating systems(AIX / HP-UX ) :
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Navigate to the path where the SAR file is located and use following command
to extract a SAR file.
SAPCAR -xvf <filename.SAR>
How to compress some files to generate a SAR file in SAP in Unix based operating systems(AIX / HP-UX ) ?
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Navigate to the path where the files that are to be compressed are located and use the following command to compress a single SAR file.
SAPCAR -cvf <filename.SAR>
To compress multiple files, we can use the following command:
SAPCAR -cvf <compressed_filename.SAR> <file1> <file2> <file n>
What is SAPCAR ?
SAPCAR is an utility provided by SAP to compress or extract files (similar to winzip)
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