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Ignore Symlinks when Extracting Tarball

I have a relatively simple question that I cannot seem to find the answer for. I am attempting to extract a tarball (*.tgz, to be exact) and receiving terminal errors on extracted symlinks. ...
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How to install tar file (jhead) on Mac or Linux machine

I'm new to Linux and tar balls and was wondering how to properly install them on a Mac or Linux machine. I would prefer to know how to install on a mac but I just need some help understanding them. I ...
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What year did the Unix “tar” program get released?

Here's an simple question: what year did the Unix "tar" (TApe ARchive) come out? I wasn't able to find the answer with Internet searches.
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How to truely install a tar.gz file on Linux - how to manage manually-installed (or standalone) applications?

I see all these links explaining packages and .debs... I know that... and there are many kludges to get tar.gz files working (eg: update-alternatives for Java or manually dropping the file in ...
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How to fix the corruption of the tar balls?

I was making a complete server backup and tried making the tar balls of each directory structure by using the following commands: nohup tar -cvf - /etc | gzip -9 -c > /opt/Backup_4_Jan/etc.tgz ...
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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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Issues while untaring tarball with acl

I am getting an error “Unknown file type 'A', extracted as normal file” while un-taring a set of files which has acl permissions set. I had created the tar file in Solaris with tar -cpfv ...
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Compress a folder with tar?

I'm trying to compress a folder (/var/www/) to ~/www_backups/$time.tar where $time is the current date. This is what I have: cd /var/www && sudo tar -czf ~/www_backups $time" I am ...
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Zip file using tar on linux server

I'm trying to make a zip file out of some files but when I extract the zip I only get 1 file. tar cfvz test.zip file1.mp3 file2.mp3 file3.jpg And after I extract test.zip I only get a "test" ...
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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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rpm and deb fileformat are blocked by my ISP. How to install software?

I have a very peculiar problem, Just be patient with what I am saying and then see what all suggestion you can give me. I have situation where my ISP has blocked .rpm and .deb files to be downloaded. ...
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Using tar on a file with an @ (at symbol)

I'm trying to extract a tarball using tar -xvf that's in the format (where * is any word character) *@*@*@*.tar.gz but I think tar is trying to find the file at a remote location. The error I get is ...
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Look at the tar log contents without extracting them

tar -tvf file.tar contains log files. Is there anyway to do something like this tar -tvf file.tar | head -1 | awk '{print $NF}' | xargs less {} This would give file not found, but is there a way? ...
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How can I move the entire OS to a different server?

I want to install RhodeCode on a test server at work. However, the internet access is restricted for that server, and RhodeCode has a lot of dependencies (I don't even have Python on that server). So ...
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Updating tar.gz daily only with changed files [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: 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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What do these commands (`tar`) actually do? Is there a better way?

I am going over some documentation from a former colleague of mine. This documentation pertains to creating a distro repo. However, I cannot understand exactly what this commands performs: ...