Questions tagged [tar]
The tar archive format and/or the command-line utility for working with tar files.
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How do I tar all files without paths
I want to find all .c files in current directory and subdirectories and tar them. I try to use the following way to achieve this goal but when i unzip files, the files in different folders. I don't ...
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Problem opening .tar.xz file [closed]
mycrap@MYCRAP:~/Downloads$ tar -xJf Pango-.36.0.tar.xz
tar (child): Pango-.36.0.tar.xz: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar (child): Error is not recoverable: exiting now
tar: Child returned ...
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How do I extract a .tar file on Azure File Share on Ubuntu 18.04?
I have a virtual machine in Azure running Ubuntu 18.04. On this machine, I have mounted an Azure File Share as a file share.
Now I'm looking to extract a large file on the mounted drive and it fails. ...
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Make grown extracted tar file small again
I packed and compressed a folder to a .tar.gz archive.
After unpacking it was nearly twice as big.
du -sh /path/to/old/folder = 263M
du -sh /path/to/extracted/folder = 420M
I searched a lot ...
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Newly installed sytem not able to extract the tar file
I have installed ubuntu in system. mounted the drive but while extracting the tar file I am getting an error.
/Downloads$ sudo tar tvzf elasticsearch-7.5.1-linux-x86_64.tar.gz /media/asd/LinuxABC/
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Create archive of complete drive with tar
I want to backup my complete drive of my brand new PC.
I tried this command:
sudo tar -czvf disk.tar /dev/nvme0n1
But it finishes after 1 second.
The nvme0n1 file in the archive is 0 bytes.
What ...
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rsync with --bwlimit option over tar -b and dd combination
I am taking NFS backup using following way.
tar -b 1024 -cf - . | /bin/gzip -c | /bin/dd bs=10M oflag=direct,sync of=/nfs
But I read it somewhere that to throttle the rate of I/O reading the data to ...
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how to understand tar minus
Lately I ran into a command:
curl https://start.spring.io/starter.tgz -d dependencies=webflux,actuator | tar -xzvf -
curl itself does not download the tgz file, since it is not wget. tar -xzvf does ...
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tar archive folder size is more than the original [duplicate]
when i am creating TAR of a directory which contents files,
the TAR archive folder size is more than the original folder size.
why does it so?
checking file size by using ls -ltr directoryname
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Transferring .tar files on Linux
I need to transfer a .tar folder to a remote server and because it's very large I can't unpack it on my computer and then transfer it.
I am using "rsync" but it doesn't work:
rsync -av folder/...
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Test for `tar` support of `--includes` versus `--wildcards` options
Some tar versions seem to support the --wildcards flag whereas others do not and support instead --includes. Does any know which versions support which, and if there is a way to test for support of ...
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Unknown character encoding for zip file in archive manager
Forenote: I am quite new to Linux, and am really just a beginner.
I have downloaded a zip file from a respectable-looking site with firefox; it should contain stuff to install an application.
The zip ...
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How to display only extracted files with tar, not the ones which are not extracted /not overwritten?
I'm extracting a tar archive with tar -xf /tmp/update.tar -C / -v --keep-newer-files.
The -v Option is to display all files processed, the --keep-newer-files Option is self explaining.
Due to all ...
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Tar: Exclude folders that have a dynamic name (using wildcard)
I have a backup routine that runs for Wordpress sites. There are folders created which are dynamic per installation of Wordpress. I cannot, for the life of me, figure out how to exclude the dynamic ...
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list directory sizes and compress them
I have a list of directories I want to compress on an ubuntu machine.
Is there any tool to automatically calculate the size of the of my folders and copy the size to the name of the compressed file?
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Are there some common ways to catalogue tar tape backups?
So, I have a tape drive, and use it to permanently archive some stuff (old projects). These are "copy once" things, no versioning/incremental backups/etc. Though of course, new projects might be added ...
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MBR and bootstrap explanation for different size disk copy
I wish to clone a 500gb MBR source disk to a 250gb MBR destination disk manually by making each corresponding partition on the destination disk and restoring just the data contents of each. This way, ...
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How to restore backup to new disk
I have to backup /home/dev/ directory, add new disk, create LVM, mount and restore backup to the new mounted volume.
It should look like this at the end:
/dev/mapper/vg00-home--dev 22G 3.6G 18G ...
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Lowering ram usage with ratarmount
Question summary: Is there any way to lower the ram usage of ratarmount? What factors affect the ram usage (other than tar size)?
Edit/clarification of question: What method could I use to reduce the ...
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How does the tar flag --totals interact with the -z flag?
-z, --gzip
filter the archive through gzip
--totals[=SIGNAL]
print total bytes after processing the archive; with an argument - print total bytes when this SIGNAL is delivered;
Allowed ...
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How much space does my little file take up, exactly? [duplicate]
I was under the impression that tar does not compress files. Imagine my surprise when I tar up a million small files (du -h ~ 4.2G) and the resulting tar was a quarter of the size (ls -lh mytar.tar ~ ...
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Bash script to pack roughly 1GB of files into a tar archive
I've got several folders with several thousand files, each folder roughly 3 - 10GB in size.
Now, I'd like to tar those files inside the folders and each tar file should be roughly 1GB in size.
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How to send output of `pv` to python script, and output progress one line at a time?
I use tar to quickly copy thousands of small files which I pipe to pv to show the progress and speed of the copying.
$ sudo tar c --files-from /tmp/camfilenames |
pv --width 40 |
sudo tar x -C /...
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mac catalina tar errors on launchctl but not when running script from terminal
I am getting an error when taring my Desktop folder using launchctl.
EDIT: This error only occurs on certain folders, (i.e. Desktop). It works fine on other folders (i.e. /etc). The test.sh script ...
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List all files present in backup2.tar.bz2 but not present in backup1.tar.bz2
This lists all files in two backups, sorted by size:
tar tvf backup1.tar.bz2 |sort -k3 -n >backup1_files.txt
tar tvf backup2.tar.bz2 |sort -k3 -n >backup2_files.txt
I'd like to list all files ...
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Any advantage in TAR's built-in archive support?
Given the option to call:
tar -cI "xz -9" -f my_archive.tar.xz my_path/
and
XZ_OPT=-9 tar cJf my_archive.tar.xz my_path/
The result of both is exactly the same size.
Is there a good reason to ...
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Script to automatically tar files and delete the source file?
Is there a script i can run that will automatically tar new folders and delete existing source folders and move them to a different directory>?
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How to remove compressed files while extracting an archive?
I need to unpack a big archive, but the problem is i don't have enough disc space for both compressed and extracted files. Is there option to delete compressed files from the archive right after ...
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Problem when piping stdin to tar
I need to write data (multiple files and directories) from a Google cloud storage bucket onto a Tar archive on my local disk. The directories are multiple TB, so I do not want to create the Tar ...
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Cannot change ownership to uid 1001, gid 1001: Invalid argument
I'm installing ONOS and following this guide: https://wiki.onosproject.org/display/ONOS/Developer+Quick+Start
I executed the command
sudo bazel build onos
This will compile and assemble the ...
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Tar create archive rename root dir
I'm trying to create tar archive and rename root dir in archive. E.g. I have these files:
$ tree ./repo
./repo
├── 1
├── 2
└── 3
0 directories, 3 files
I want to create an archive repo-v1.0.0.tar.gz ...
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corrupt tar.gz archive
I'm new here and I want to ask something maybe you can help me. I wanted to service my NAS and I had to download all the data that I had on it, so what I did is downloaded whole data trough webbrowser ...
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Tar.gz with specific sizes but compressed files contains zero bytes
Recently I took backup of certain folders by compressing them using tar.gz. I checked the file sizes and they looked like with specific sizes so I assumed that the files that got compressed must be in ...
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What is the easiest way to list all the user:group found in a tarball?
I'm installing some of my data from my old server to my new server.
Since I had my old server for ages, I have a huge amount of legacy data with, most certainly, legacy user and group names.
When ...
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Does archiving root directory archive additional mounted disk directories?
I am trying to archive a bunch of systems using tar. In order to do so, I am planning to run tar on each of the devices listed by df command's output (except tmpfs).
Since the non-root devices are ...
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How to re-archive Android backup tarball properly
I have this peculiar situation where unpacking and repacking an Android backup tarball changes the entries in it, resulting in the backup file being unusable.
To make things simpler for the reader, ...
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How to overcome tar: Removing leading `/' from member names [duplicate]
My command is totally different when you compare with that command
I am trying to run below command in linux
Command: tar zcvf ABCD.tar.gz -T Files.txt
and i am getting an error message as
Error:...
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List contents of a tgz archive inside a gz archive
Bit of a weird one - I've got a honeypot running dionaea, which is a tool that consolidates any binaries that were uploaded to the device in single location (/data/dionaea/binaries).
However, every ...
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tar - List of extracted files
How can I extract files from a .tar.gz archive while keeping a trace of the extracted files?
For example, let's say I have the following file structure...
ROOT
╠═▶ children
║ ╠═▶ joe.txt
║ ╚...
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Using tar to update archive with files from a while loop?
I have the problem listed here: Oct 2019 upgrade: pip upgrade failure · Issue #5844 · msys2/MINGW-packages: basically, pip on MSYS2 refuses to update because it sees some files. pacman -Syu basically ...
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How to repeatedly un tar files that are within the tar itself
I have a tar file that has been tar-ed many times. It follows a similar structure like this:
1000.tar
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--- filler.txt (random text)
999.tar
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--- filler.txt
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tell tar to ignore sockets - I don't want to see warnings
I have this warning message about sockets with tar:
ERRO[0000] Can't add file
/home/ubuntu/backup-db/.bunion.sock to tar:
archive/tar: sockets not supported
how can I tell tar that I don't ...
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How to mount a gpg-encrypted tar archive file?
On my laptop I actually have a folder where I store personal data which I don't want to share:
private_folder
├── baz
│ └── secret_file_3
└── foo
└── bar
├── secret_file_1
└── ...
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How to tar a file that is opened and under concurrent writes by another process?
For example, while an application continuously writes text lines to a file named ./data.csv, i ran the following tar command:
tar cvfz /tmp/1.tgz ./data.csv
Though tar did create the tar ball /tmp/1....
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how to conditionally run different command with same arguments
if gtar is defined I want to use that, instead of tar:
if command -v gtar; then
gtar --exclude-ignore='.deployignore' -cf /dev/stdout . | aws s3 cp - "$arti_fact"
else
tar --exclude-ignore='....
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Zip and archive to other directory
I have some 250 CSV source files in the incoming directory.
My task is to merge those CSV files and generate a file like Merge_.
the Informatica Job will then pick the merge file as the source and ...
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Difference between .bz2 and .tar.bz2 files
I am supposed to find whether a file is compressed using .bz2 or .tar.bz2(without using extension of file) and
and decompress it accordingly. I used the file command but it is giving same result for ...
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compressing folders with tar and trying to exclude a folder
I'm trying to get a small script to run smoothly, it's supposed to archive all subfolders under /docker/*.
What I wan't is the script to exclude all folders that has a date (i e 20191010, 20180502 and ...
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How to force tar cf to have reproducable results?
Preface: We have a complex build process and discovered it's working on one system and failing on another (unfortunally/Murphy it worked on the Jenkins build server, so the problem remained ...
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How could I untar many tar files seperately with one command?
I have many tar files like this: aa.tar, bb.tar, cc.tar, ....
I would like to untar them to their own directories such as aa/, bb/, cc/ ...
I tried this:
ls | xargs -n1 -I {} tar -xvf {} -C `...
