Questions tagged [tar]
The tar archive format and/or the command-line utility for working with tar files.
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BusyBox's tar --exclude doesn't exclude
Extract a tar file with content dir1/dir2/file, using --exclude dir2 switch. The gnu tar excluded but busybox's tar doesn't.
Use --exclude dir1/dir2 works fine, but why? Is there a way to exclude any ...
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tar files with backslahes on Debian
I need to copy files that contain (Windows-style) backslahes from a Debian 10 pod. I'm having trouble with GNU tar 1.30 archiving files with backslashes:
docker run --rm -it debian:10 bash
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tar multiple files starting with same pattern then spaces in between the file name
I am trying tar files from a directory which has files starting with same pattern then multiple spaces in between. e.g.:
ABCDEFGH Mar 09 20:02:00 2023 log.TXT.0
ABCDEFGH Mar 09 20:05:00 2023 log.TXT.0
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Is possible compress and uncompress a file with a password but considering an expiration date too?
In Linux about compression files can be accomplished with the tar and zip/unzip commands, perhaps more. I know that is possible establish a password protection for security reasons.
The question is:
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I get error when I want to extract tar file in the satrap folder
I am new in Linux , when I want to extract the tar file in the folder satrap I get this error :
You may not specify more than one `-Acdtrux' or `--test-label' option
Try `tar --help' or `tar --usage' ...
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tar exclude folders ignored when called from bash function
The following code didn't work, exclude folders are ignored by tar. How can I fix that ? Please note I may have multiple exclude folders and multiple folders to backup.
date=`date +%Y%m%d`
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Normal gz file not extractable by tar [duplicate]
I have a gz archive but for some reason tar said that the format is incorrect even though I can double click it in mac Finder and extract it normally, and file command shows the same format just like ...
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Why does transfer of a TAR file slow down so significantly mid-transfer?
I'm trying to transfer a 30GB TAR file between two servers. My problem is transfer starts at a fast rate of roughly 10s MB/s, but after 11% of the file transfer the speed slows enormously to 100s KB/s....
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Why doesn't doas wget -qO- archive.tar.gz|doas tar -xz work as with sudo?
sudo wget -qO- https://go.dev/dl/go1.20.1.linux-amd64.tar.gz|sudo tar -xz works fine.
doas wget -qO- https://go.dev/dl/go1.20.1.linux-amd64.tar.gz|doas tar -xz does not work. I get no input, it just ...
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Untar an archive without creating missing directories
I have a tar archive that looks something like this:
$ tar -tf archive.tar
foo/
foo/bar.txt
dontcreateme/baz.txt
The foo directory is directly specified in the archive, but dontcreateme is not - only ...
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Cheating tar out of "Cannot change mode to rwxrwxrwx: No such file or directory"?
I'm trying to build GCC 10, and in the end, I get a failure in make install (I'm trying to run sudo checkinstall -D --install=no --fstrans=no instead of make install, though, so I can build a .deb ...
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extracting multiple tar files in folders with their corresponding file names
Hi I'm having a multiple tar files like 1.tar 2.tar 3.tar..etc and i wanted to extract them to corresponding folders i.e 1.tar to a folder named 1 and so on...
my trial was like the following:
for ...
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tar -: cannot stat: No such file or directory
I'm trying to write a backup script, using the method from this answer from superuser to show a progress bar.
I invoke tar like this:
tar cf --exclude-vcs --exclude-ignore=.tarignore - $backup_files -...
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Convert tar to 7z directly?
I have a couple tarballs that are many gigabytes large and contain several thousand files and am wondering if it is possible to convert these to more versatile 7z archives, because the current ...
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Extract all content from multiple zip files contained in compressed tar archive
I receive a tar.gz file which packages multiple zip files - reproduced below:
$ rm -Rf zipdir; mkdir zipdir; echo foo > zipdir/a.txt; echo bar > zipdir/b.txt; cd zipdir; zip -m a.zip a.txt ; zip ...
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Extract first n bytes from .tar.gz and output as a .tar.gz in a single command
I have a .tar.gz as input and want to extract the first 128 MiB of it and output as a .tar.gz in a single command. I tried:
sudo tar xzOf input.tar.gz | sudo dd of=output bs=1M count=128 iflag=...
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How to extract subdirectory from tar into another tar without `sudo`?
Given
A tar file with rootfs where all permissions and ownerships are set.
Expected
A tar file with content of subdirectory, let's say usr/local/lib where permissions and ownerships are retained.
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Shell script to Unzip and Enter directory
I am working on two shell scripts. The first accepts a number and a path. Enters said path, does and md5sum of all files then packages the files into a tar.gz.
The second script accepts a tar.gz, ...
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Difference between ar, tar, gzip, zip and when should I decide to choose which one?
I had a use case where I needed to pack a bunch of files into one. And all above commands does the same. I know gzip compresses my files but lets say space is not at all an issue for me then in that ...
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Error with option --strip-components when running example from manual of tar command
When reading the manual of tar command I encountered something wrong with the option --strip-components.
The example in the manual is that there is a tar file containing a directory with 3 files. When ...
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tar not working with sudo
I am trying to extract a file into /usr/local/ using
$ sudo tar -xvzf /home/vyom/Downloads/go1.19.4.linux-amd64.tar.gz -C /usr/local/
tar (child): gzip: Cannot exec: No such file or directory
tar (...
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Extract a list of files from tape with tar
My goal is to extract only the files in a list from an lto5 tape using tar. The data was originally written to the tape using tar as well. I am able to accomplish this task from a .tgz file by doing:
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Why did my tar backup fail?
My home directory is encrypted with ecryptfs. I wanted to try some things that required reinstalling my system, so I backed up to a flash drive with this command:
sudo tar cf backup.tar.zstd --one-...
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Is it wrong to do tar czf somename.tar some_*_files?
Is it wrong to do tar czf somname.tar some_*_files instead of tar czf somname.tar.gz some_*_files, then of course tar xf somename.tar? That is : without adding the .gz extension.
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Extract subset of files in tar.gz to another tar.gz
I have some data in a gzip compressed tar file called all.tar.gz. I know I can extract my visual files (file.vis.#) to the output directory using tar -xzf all.tar.gz --wildcards --no-anchored 'file....
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How to use compressed archive when script expects uncompressed
I'm currently working on a program which calls a script, that converts NCBI Blast Databases from BLASTDB format to FASTA format. This script normally expects to run within a directory of an ...
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Rofi isn't recognizing a .desktop file [i3-gaps]
I've recently installed waterfox on my Fedora system, and I've encountered an issue with my application manager, rofi. For some reason it just doesn't want to recognize the .desktop file for it, and I'...
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Continue on Error While Extracting a tarfile
I want to continue extracting a tarfile on error, even if there is one or more corrupted files contained within the tarfile. Is this possible?
I have a tarfile myArchive.tar.gz. I want to extract/...
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How to backup many large files to single compressed file on S3
I have an application that has many thousands of files totaling over 10TB.
I'd need to backup this data somewhere (probably to AWS S3).
I'd like to:
compress data being backed up
save the backup as a ...
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Decompress tarred file system into mounted partition
let's say that I backed up the file system on an installed distro into the file backup.tar.gz.
I have the file backup.tar.gz in my home dir and want to decompress it directly into the partition sda1 ...
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Untar file if exists in archive
I want to extract few directories from very big tar.gz archive (lets assume aaa,bbb,ccc).
ccc sometimes exists, sometimes not, but I want to avoid fails during extract process.
Is it possible to ...
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Extract archive with BSD tar to directory with same basename
GNU tar allows to extract the contents of an archive to a directory named after the basename of the archive.
$ touch foobar
$ gnutar czf archive.tar.gz foobar
$ gnutar --one-top-level -xf archive.tar....
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tar "Cannot stat: No such file or directory" when space in name file [duplicate]
I have a problem when I try to use this tar command :
cd /ROOT && tar -czf /ROOT/backup/test.tar.gz --exclude="backup" $(ls -A -1)
All the files and folder in the current directory ...
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ssh immediately closes connection after tar backup
I have seen a similar issue posted elsewhere, but mine seems to be slightly different. I am sshing into a Ubuntu 16 server, and it was working literally hours ago. I started a backup using
tar -cvpzf ...
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When is mandatory use the "--keep-newer-files" option for the tar command?
About the tar command
Introduction
Having for example:
source
numbers
001.txt # with the 111 content
002.txt # with the 222 content
003.txt # with the 333 content
If is created the numbers.tar....
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"gzip: stdin: unexpected end of file" after using tar with split
I have a folder of roughly 600MB of images in a folder output_test. I then create 100MB chunks of tar.gz files using the following command:
tar -czf - output_test/ | split --bytes=100MB -d -a 3 - ...
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tar extract as a specified user : tar: /home/administrateur/glpi-10.0.3.tar: Cannot open: Permission denied
Cannot extract tar archive as www-data user, I get a Cannot open: Permission denied error :
$ mkdir $HOME/tmp
$ sudo chown www-data $HOME/tmp
$ ll -d $HOME/tmp
drwxrwxr-x 2 www-data administrateur ...
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How to change name of a folder inside tar.gz before decompressing?
I have a tar.gz called "first.tar.gz". Inside it I have only one folder called "first" (no other folders or files). I want to decompress the tar.gz, so the folder "first" ...
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Untar file tar compressed file to different directories [duplicate]
I have a .tar.gz file which may have the following files:
folder1/folder2/folder3/imp_folder1/file11.jpg
folder1/folder2/folder3/imp_folder1/file12.jpg
folder1/folder2/folder3/imp_folder2/file21.jpg
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How to extract the tar.gz file but without overwriting existing files?
With the unzip -n /path/to/filename/filename.zip command the compressed file is uncompressed but does not overwrite existing files. This approach is useful when the same compressed file was ...
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How to tar files from multiple paths without including path names?
At the end of an automated job, I want to tar up some logfiles and deposit them somewhere in case they need to be analyzed. The log files are at multiple different locations on the host, and some of ...
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Compressing an archive of images does not reduce its size significantly
I have lots of pictures to back up from my computer to an external hard drive. I want to make archives of all picture folders I want to back up and compress them to save space on my external drive. I ...
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tar create: How to avoid to show the "tar: Removing leading `/' from member names" message in the terminal?
About the tar command
If is executed the command:
tar -czf numbers.tar.gz numbers
The numbers.tar.gz file is created - from the numbers - in the current directory
But for script purposes - by testing ...
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Why tar command uses gzip command through 'z' option?
In Linux Ubuntu about the 'tar' command for these versions:
tar -tzf /path/to/filename.tar.gz # Show the content
tar -xzf /path/to/filename.tar.gz # Extract the content
Observe both commands use ...
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How can install software with tar.gz file?
Here is the way i install zulu jdk:
wget https://cdn.azul.com/zulu/bin/zulu18.32.13-ca-jdk18.0.2.1-linux_x64.tar.gz
mv zulu18.32.13-ca-jdk18.0.2.1-linux_x64.tar.gz /opt
cd /opt
tar -zxvf zulu18.32....
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Decompress folder.tar.gz with files inside
I'm trying to decompress folder.tar.gz which was previously compressed with zstd, so I did:
unzstd folder.tar.gz.zst
Now if I try to decompress by using:
tar -xvf folder.tar.gz
It will decompress ...
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tar suppress message "Treating date ... as ..."
In my script I try to pack the file test with:
if tar czfv "/tmp/tmp.tar.gz" --mtime="$(date +'%Y-%m-%d %H:00')" "test" --utc;then
I get the output
tar: Option --mtime: ...
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tar lzma autocompression produces the error "This does not look like a tar archive"
The following script
mkdir test && cd test
mkdir files
touch files/{1,2,3}
tar --create --file "test.lzma" files/{1,2,3} --auto-compress
mkdir extracted_files
tar --extract --file &...
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Unzip compressed dump and import via psql
I'm trying to dump a huge database and compress the dump in order to not have to wait hours till it's done.
I dump the database the following way:
pg_dump -Fc -U -v | gzip > db$(date +%d-%m-%y_%H-%...
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How to suppress warning messages in tar (GNU tar) 1.15.1?
On trying to tar files that are getting changed, I am receiving this message -
tar: file changed as we read it.
I am trying to suppress this warning message like this -
tar --warning=no-file-changed -...
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