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Tar piped to split piped to scp

So I'm trying to transfer a bunch of files via SCP. Some of these are too large to be stored on the recipient (Android phone, 4GB file size limit). The sender is almost out of space, so I can't ...
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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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Extract directory from wget's stdout

I am trying to wget a tarball from github.com and, without creating a temporary file, extract a subdirectory from it: wget -qO- https://github.com/django-nonrel/django-nonrel/tarball/develop | tar ...
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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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Using files that have spaces in their name in pipes

I have folder named play which contains a file damn file (with space). When I use find and pipe the output to tar: find play/ -name 'damn*' | tar cf archive.tar -T - It works perfectly. Why does ...
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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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Copy a directory to external HDD

I'm trying to copy a directory to external HDD- i mounted the device and then typed : cd root tar -cf - * | (cd /mnt ; tar -xpf -) I got this error message: "cowardly refusing to create an empty ...
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untar a directory of *.tgz files using a wildcard

I've got a directory that looks like $ ls Broad_hapmap3_r2_Affy6_cels_excluded.tgz DINGO.tgz GIGAS.tgz index.html IONIC.tgz passing_cels_sample_map.txt ...