How to compress or extract a SAR file in SAP

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How to compress or extract a SAR file in SAP



What is a SAR file ?

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 ) :

Login to the Unix system with sidadm user

Navigate to the path where the SAR file is located and use following command

to extract a SAR file.

SAPCAR -xvf <filename.SAR>

Please find below example of extracting PIS_COFINS_604_20110311.SAR file extraction. 6 files got extracted from this  process

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