The tar archive format and/or the command-line utility for working with tar files.
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How do I extract with tar to a different directory?
This doesn't work:
tar xf /tmp/foo.tar.gz foo/bar
tar: foo/bar: Not found in archive
It's not obvious to me what would do this beyond extracting it in place and moving the files over.
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1answer
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Copy just permissions and ownership from one tar file to another
I have two tar files which are basically backups of my /data folder on android. The problem is the permissions and ownership of the files inside latest back-up is messed up. However the permissions in ...
2
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1answer
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How do I dereference links when extracting from a tar file?
If I have a tar file, bob.tar, which contains real_file and link_to_real_file, in which the latter is a symlink, is there a way to extract the contents of bob.tar so that link_to_real_file will not be ...
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tar with relative paths
I try to create an archive with tar using relative paths. I use the following command:
tar czf ~/files/wp/my-page-order.tar.gz -C ~/webapps/zers/wp-content/plugins/ ...
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1answer
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Proper way to join multi-volume tarballs?
So how should this be done? I have learned that using cat is the preferred way when using split to create multi-volume files, but what about when using tar's own native multi-volume function?
Thanks
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Extract multiple .tar.gz files with a single tar call
I was wondering whether (and, of course, how) it’s possible to tell tar to extract multiple files in a single run.
I’m an experienced Unix user for several years and of course I know that you can use ...
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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:
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1answer
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Compress a directory using tar/gz over SSH to local computer?
I'd like to essentially tar/gz a directory on a remote machine and save the file to my local computer without having to connect back into my local machine from the remote one. Is there a way to do ...
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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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Tar a folder without .git files?
If I tar a folder that is a git repository, can I do so without including the .git related files? If not, how would I go about doing that via a command?
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fastest way of doing a tar.gz from a tree of directories?
I've got a tree of directories with files like this:
.
|-- 00
| |-- 00
| | |-- 00
| | |-- 01
| | |-- 02
| | |-- 03
| | |-- 04
| | |-- 05
[..]
| | |-- 97
| | |-- 98
...
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Prevent showing time stamp message when running “tar xzf”
When running tar xzf, how to prevent this message (Prevent showing time stamp message):
tar: node: time stamp 2011-06-07 02:02:30 is 8309 s in the future
tar: user/Node: time stamp 2011-06-07 ...
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Why use superflous dash (-) to pass option flags to tar?
To create a tar file for a directory, the tar command with compress, verbose and file options can be typed thus:
$ tar -cvf my.tar my_directory/
But it also works to do it this way:
$ tar cvf ...
3
votes
2answers
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Find files with same name but different extensions, send to tgz
I have a large archive of edited images from my camera, each image is actually a pair of files - *.nef & *.xmp. I would like to go through all the folders and then zip these pairs into single tgz ...
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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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2answers
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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 ...
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vote
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Compare the contents of dynamically generated archives
Short question: I have two dynamically generated tar archives (so they have different timestamps), how can I compare them, ignoring any different in time?
Backgrounds...
I am doing some backup, in ...
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2answers
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tar through ssh session [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What does “-” mean as an argument to a command?
When I use this command:
tar cf - /tmp | ssh test.com tar xf -
What does the '-' mean? And is this the ...
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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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How can I best copy large numbers of small files over scp?
I have a directory that's got several gigabytes and several thousand small files. I want to copy it over the network with scp more than once. CPU time on the source and destination machines is cheap, ...
8
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2answers
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What does “-” mean as an argument to a command?
I found this link on how to open tgz in one step.
gzip -dc target.tar.gz | tar xf -
What does the '-' mean?
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votes
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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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votes
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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 ...
0
votes
1answer
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Locate a directory within an archive
I have .tgz archive i'm trying to locate a directory within it to extra how do i search within a .tgz i tried the following below but no luck.
tar -tzf archive-9.tgz | grep '161519' | xargs tar -Oxzf ...
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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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votes
2answers
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How do I extract a specific directory from a tarball? and strip a leading directory?
I want to extract a specific directory from the wordpress tarball. specifically wp-includes to .. It appears that the directory structure inside the tarball is wordpress/wp-includes but I just ...
