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Under what circumstances does gunzip & tar xf work but tar xzf fail?

To illustrate the point: I have downloaded the LEDA library from the company's website. Using tar -xzf on it fails: $ tar -xzf LEDA-6.3-free-fedora-core-8-64-g++-4.1.2-mt.tar.gz tar: This does not ...
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Triple compression and I only save 1% in space?

I've been trying to save space on my linux server, and I had a folder containting, in subfolders, 22GB of images. So I decided to compress them. First I used tar: tar -zcf folder.tar folder Then ...
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tar: Removing leading `/' from member names

root@server # tar fcz bkup.tar.gz /home/foo/ tar: Removing leading `/' from member names How can I solve this problem and keep the / on file names ?
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Compress old log file into single zip-linux

I have a folder /home/testuser/log which contain log files of one day old *.log. I wish to compress all the log files older than one day to a single zip(gzip or tar.gz) and delete the older files. I ...
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tar: Unexpected EOF in archive

I am trying extract .tar.gz file it but with no luck gzip: stdin: unexpected end of file tar: Unexpected EOF in archive tar: Unexpected EOF in archive tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now the ...
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tar: exclude gzip file, and don't try to gunzip it

I would like to skip a large gzip file when I extract a tar file, but everytime tar starts to gunzip it to look inside it seems. Even when I just try to peek inside tar seems to start gunzipping it, ...
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How do you extract a single folder from a large tar.gz archive?

I am using this command on a 5GB archive tar -zxvf archive.tar.gz /folder/in/archive is this the correct way to do this? It seems to be taking forever with no command line output...
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Backing up to DVD [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Splitting large directory tree into specified-size chunks? I have a partition that is about 14G and I need to back it up to DVD in such a way that I can use each disc to ...
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Will tar -cvzf packed.tar.gz mydir take hidden files into account?

I need to create a tarball of a given directory. However, I need to make sure hidden files are included too (such as those beginning with .). Will the following command automatically take the hidden ...
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How can i view the contents of a tar.gz file (filenames + filesize)

I cannot use tar -tz as the solaris version I'm using does not accept the -z option. I tried something like gunzip file.tar.gz | tar -tv but that only gives: tar: /dev/rmt/0: No such file or ...
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How to recover a corrupted “tar.gz” file

I suddenly needed to recover an old tar.gz file, but as soon as I execute so: tar -zxvf filename.tar.gz I get this: gzip: stdin: invalid compressed data--format violated tar: Child returned ...
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diff a gzipped tarball against a directory?

Is there a way I can diff a gzipped tarball against an existing directory? I would like to be able to do it without extracting the data from the tarball.
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tar extraction depends on filename?

I often download tarballs with wget from sourceforge.net. The downloaded files then are named, e.g ...
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Add/update a file to an existing tar.gz archive?

Is there a way to add/update a file in a tar.gz archive? Basically, I have an archive which contains a file at /data/data/com.myapp.backup/./files/settings.txt and I'd like to pull that file from the ...