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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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Chaining mysqldumps commands to output a single gzipped file

Let's say I have these series of commands mysqldump --opt --databases $dbname1 --host=$dbhost1 --user=$dbuser1 --password=$dbpass1 mysqldump --opt --databases $dbname2 --host=$dbhost1 --user=$dbuser1 ...
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tshark dump only when string is matched

I'm working on a web capture script where I only want to dump the traffic if the HTML body or URL contains a string defined in a .txt file. Here is my tshark command which dumps src ip dest url (HTTP ...
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Moving /boot and MBR to a new drive

I have a CentOS 6 server with two hard drives in it. My old 3TB drive has been giving me some issues so I'm moving things over to a new drive. Because my / and /home partition are managed by a LVM ...
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Extract UNIX dump file in Windows 7

I have a dump-file of the UFS partition created with FreeBSD's dump. How to view its content and extract some files from it on Windows 7? Cygwin's restore provides very limited functionality and ...
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dump freezes system

dump -h 0 -0Lauf /backup/ada0p2.dump / - causes total system freeze. server# cat /etc/fstab # Device Mountpoint FStype Options Dump Pass# /dev/ada0p2 / ufs rw ...
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What is Unix for the OpenVMS DUMP command?

In OpenVMS the DUMP command: Displays the contents of a file, a directory, a disk volume, a magnetic tape volume, or a CD-ROM volume in decimal, hexadecimal, octal format, ASCII, or formatted ...
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od emulation for directories

I was wondering why od(1) used to work in UNIX but doesn't work in GNU/Linux. There is a nice answer on serverfault. The next question is, are you aware of any tools that can emulate od behavior to ...