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What are the relative merits of the various standard Unix archival utilities? [closed]
There are many archival tools for Unix, with varying degrees of availability. To make matters more confusing, many of them can write each other's formats.
I am seeking more information on their ...
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How do I extract the filesystem image from vmlinux.bin?
jor1k ships a vmlinux.bin. I think there is an initrd inside, cause I don't know where else it would be. I am trying to extract the filesystem image so I can change it, but I don't know how to.
I ...
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Add a file to a different path in a zip file
I have a file that placed in the following directory:
folder_A/another_folder_A/file_to_add.xml
Now, what I want to do is simply add the file to a folder in an existing zip archive.
For example ...
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tar -c Error Messages and Source Files?
During a tar archiving operation with tar -cvf archive.tar source does the resulting tar archive that reports a file changed as we read it error still contain "some version" of the source file that it ...
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Is it better to archive/move mail based on mtime or ctime?
I have been using a perl script to archive mail found here
The script uses ctime to process and decide which month sub folder to place mail. In most cases this is fine since the ctime = mtime and ...
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How to create a folder which will change its contents’ ownership to what the folder has?
In a GNU/Linux OS there is no way to change ownership of a file until you are root. But what if I want to hide my system’s username e.g. before sending a file to someone, because some things like tar ...
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How to compress with bzip2 and gzip using xar?
In the "Why Xar" page of the Xar Google Code page it says:
Additionally, this means xar can use different compression methods for each file in the archive. For instance, it might not be a good ...
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How can I view files in zip using putty?
I want to view file list in zip archive using putty without unzip the archive.
Is it possible?
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Backing Up to a Compressed Archive on Linux
How would you go about backing up just some files and subdirectories of a given directory to a compressed archive so that the tree structure could then easily be recreated from that archive.
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How to run a command against all the files of particular types on a filesystem?
I've just recovered tons of files (distributed in a complex directory structure, having very long names, using Unicode symbols, spaces etc in names) from a damaged hard drive. Now I'd like to verify ...
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referring to files inside a jar or zip files in Linux
I am wondering if I can refer to files inside JAR or ZIP files using URLs. I mean, without using a tool (such as the Java Jar utility) but just at the operative system level.
For example, if I have a ...
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Graphical archive manager that uses /tmp
I am looking for a (preferably) graphical archive manager that can be configured to use /tmp as a scratch area for decompressing.
My setup is as follows: I have my local workstation with /home ...
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What Windows-related files are valueless to *nix users?
I have accumulated, from my time using Windows a good quantity of held-over filesystem copies and archives of system and data drives. I am trying to distill them down to the usable parts while ...
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How to unzip a multipart (spanned) ZIP on Linux?
I need to upload a 400mb file to my web server, but I'm limited to 200mb uploads. My host suggested I use a spanned archive, which I've never done on Linux.
I created a test in its own folder, ...
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Archive of QNX's use messages?
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I do not know all standard linux/unix commands, so I need manpages.
I found QNX's manuals (invoked by "use [command name]") terse; I prefer them to linux manpages.
I can get them from QNX ...
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Configuring networked printer to archive print jobs
Our existing infrastructure has a shared printer running on a windows machine.
It may be upgraded to a real network tcp/ip based printer in the near future.
How can I make it automatically keep a ...
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How to check/test .tar.bz archives?
I've been using tar with its "--use-compress-prog=pbzip2" function to archive my files then compress them with pbzip2 to get an "*.tar.bz" archive.
Afterwards I checked the resulting file with ...
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Indexed archive format?
I need to create compressed archives of files, and be able to quickly extract individual files/directories from them.
The problem is, for example, tar.bz2 seems to be not the best choice for such ...
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Utility to easily extract archives
A while back I came across a utility that you could pass an archive to and it would not only take care of figuring out the unarchiver to use, but use the correct command line options, and ensure that ...
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Creating recursively sorted RAR archive
For various reasons I decided to use RAR archive to store some data, instead compressed tar.
Happy with decision, except for one thing: I can't find a way to store files sorted. Order of files is ...
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Why doesn't tar ask before overwriting existing files?
I lost a couple hundred lines of a Vim plugin I wrote and continue back up every so often because I extracted a tar file containing an older version. I decided not to use source control management ...
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Creating Windows self-extracting executables that can auto-run a script
Does a tool exist (preferably packaged in Debian) to create Windows self-extracting executables that can auto-run a script in the archive once the extracting is done?
I've been toying with NSIS but I ...
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Is there a GUI tool to show an archive information with ratio visualization?
Is there a GUI tool to show an archive information with ratio visualization like this:
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Can I command 7z to skip compression (but not inclusion) of specific files while compressing a directory with its subs?
There is a feature of the WinRAR (for Windows) archiver I love a lot: it can be set up to skip trying to compress particular files (based on their extension (name pattern)) while including them into a ...
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shell howto: save multiple binary data files (jpg) to one file with some additional data and separate again
I have a system with restricted calculational power (fritzbox) and functions (busybox) and an webcam, able to deliver JPG files.
Now I'm looking for for a method (based on shell script) to download ...
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Appending checksum information to file
I'd like to embed checksum information into file, that I transfer.
It's tar.gz or tar.xz file and I can only transfer one file to remote side.
How do you recommend I embed checksum information?
I ...
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Remove accidentally extracted files [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to de-unzip, de-tar -xvf — de-unarchive in a messy folder?
This is a pretty annoying occurrence. Sometimes, I download an archive (tar.gz, tar.bz2, zip, rar, ...
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Faster alternative to ArchiveMount?
At the moment I am using ArchiveMount to mount a 123,000 kb archive that contains more then 3 million files inside. So far it has been mounting for 5+ hours and still isn't finished.
Is there a ...
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How to undo an unrar? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to de-unzip, de-tar -xvf — de-unarchive in a messy folder?
I just extracted a RAR archive that contained a lot of files in the base directory. Assuming that ...
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Updating tar.gz daily only with changed files [duplicate]
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Add/update a file to an existing tar.gz archive?
I have some game files I wish to update daily and they create a tar.gz of the folder, but instead of making a full ...
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If I dd a CDROM, then I always get the exact copy of the CDROM?
If I:
dd if=/dev/cdrom of=cdrom.iso
then I will always get the exact same, bit-by-bitly same image that is the same as the original CDROM?
Or are there any methods that prevents copying all the ...
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Fastest way combine many files into one (tar czf is too slow)
Currently I'm running tar czf to combine backup files. The files are in a specific directory.
But the number of files is growing. Using tzr czf takes too much time (more than 20 minutes and ...
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Most “effective” archive to convert to
If you are like me, you have tons of archives lying around in different formats (zip, tar, rar, tgz, tar.bz2 etc). In cleaning up my stuff, I have decided to basically leave my archives alone ( and ...
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What's the difference between tar.gz and tar.Z?
The downloads on this page, e.g. of NetCDF C/C++/Fortran 4.1.3, show tar.Z and tar.gz formats. The tar.Z doesn't even have a configure file in it. What is it used for?
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How do I recursively grep through compressed archives?
I'm trying to find out what modules use Test::Version in cpan. So I've used minicpan to mirror it. My problem is that I need to iterate through the archives that are downloaded, and grep the files ...
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Clean up / after accidentally extracting archive into it? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to de-unzip, de-tar -xvf — de-unarchive in a messy folder?
I have just accidentally extracted a cpio archive as root into /. Now my / is littered with junks. ...
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How to de-unzip, de-tar -xvf — de-unarchive in a messy folder?
Usually, I unarchive things by $ mkdir newFolder; $ mv *.zip newFolder; $ cd newFolder; $unzip *.zip but sometimes I get lazy and just do in an arbitrary folder $ unzip *.zip so time-to-time messing ...
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Extracting nested zip files
I have numerous zip archives, each of which contains a number of zip archives. What is the best way to recursively extract all files contained within this zip archive and its child zip archives, that ...
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GUI archive manager that works well over ssh
I'm using file-roller and it doesn't work well when my archive file is accessed via ssh (it throws an error when I try to open it). Any alternatives?
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Is there a parallel file archiver (like tar)?
Is there something out there for parallel archiving of files?
Tar is great, but I don't use tape archives, and it's more important to me that the archiving happens quickly (with compression like ...
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filesystem for archiving
I have some complex read-only data in my file system. It contains thousands of snapshots of certain revisions of a svn repository, and the output of regression tests. Identical files between snapshots ...
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Is there any program to provide a consistent interface across multiple archive types?
At the moment, if I download a compressed file, it could be any of a .tar.gz archive, a tar.bz2 arhive, a .zip archive or a .gz archive. And each time I do so, I have to remember what the command line ...
