Questions tagged [tar]
The tar archive format and/or the command-line utility for working with tar files.
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Repairing a tar.xz file
I am trying to extract a xz archive, however, around half way through decompression I get the error Compressed data is corrupt.
I have tried using xzcat and using the --ignore-check flag in case that ...
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tar --skip-old-files: Cannot open: No such file or directory
I am trying to uncompress all files in a directory. They are are scattered throughout various sub-directories, so I can't just use wildcards. Instead, I used find:
find . -name "*.tar.gz" -...
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Tar command and PIPE
Let say i want to :
Create a tar ball from a directory on server A
Scp this tarball to a server B
Untar the in the server B
ssh root@serverB " scp root@serverA:/var/www/dirs.tar.gz /var/www/...
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Error during TAR file creation [duplicate]
I'm getting this error:
printf: {2..4} expected numeric value
tar: -ML1900M: No such file or directory
Using this code:
printf 'n Log-%02d.tar\n' {2..4}|tar cf /var/opt/sw/e4/data/dev/e4_dev/DEVL3/EW/...
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Create TAR files with limited size in Unix script
printf 'n Log-%02d.tar\n' {2..}|tar cf /var/opt/sw/e4/data/dev/e4_dev/DEVL3/EW/EWD1/DATA/AED/OUTPUT/Log-01.tar -ML1900m /var/opt/sw/e4/data/dev/e4_dev/DEVL3/EW/EWD1/DATA/AED/Temp
I tried to use the ...
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TAR 6 GB worth of files into separate 1.9 GB TAR files [duplicate]
I have 28,000 files of size 6.7 GB in the directory aaa/input.
I need create TAR files in the directory aaa/output, such that each TAR file cannot exceed 1.9 GB, so I have to tar the 28,000 files into ...
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How to compress every file in a directory into its own compressed file (files not in current directory)
If the location DATA/AAA/INPUT contains n files (the file names are random job names), I need to create tar files for all the n files in the DATA/AAA/OUTPUT location with a common name format.
So, if ...
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information about .deb installation, many errors
I want to install a tar.gz file downloaded from here. I tried but I got an error.
I open the terminal in the folder and I'm trying to install.
Here is a screenshot of the file manager, showing part ...
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Can GNU tar run a filter before adding a file to an archive?
I am trying to archive a directory containing many subdirectories and files, most of which are JPEG files. I would like to run each file through JPEG XL before adding to the tar archive, to reduce ...
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change directory based on file shell script
Firstly come background I am trying to write an executable shell script I can easily map as the default for .tgz files to auto-extract.
so far so simple
tar -xzvf $1
which works to drag/drop but not ...
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Copy file with rpm in %pretrans
How can I get a .tgz file from rpmbuild's SOURCES directory within the %pretrans section to a target system using a RPM and extract it there?
I would have to do it in the %pretrans section because the ...
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How to create a deterministic tar.gz using tar? [duplicate]
I have followed following answer for Tar produces different files each time and Why does the PIGZ produce a different md5sum. My goal is to generate deterministic compressed file in tar.gz format (...
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tar.unpack untar error while installing angular in Linux vm
I am installing Angular in Linux VM (3.10.0.1062) using command npm install @angular/cli@10.0.5 from Putty terminal, getting below error
[host@machinename /]$ npm install @angular/cli@10.0.5
npm WARN ...
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Optimize time when creating archive
Currently I am using the following command to create an archive with files older than 7 days:
find /var/tunningLog/ -type f -mtime +7 -print0 | tar -czf "/var/tunningLog/$(date '+%Y-%m-%d').tar....
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How to check a tar.xz file to see if it's not corrupted
I have compressed some file with this command:
XZ_OPT=-e9 tar cJf compressed_directory.tar.xz /path/to/directory
Is there any way I could check these tar.xz files to see if they're not corrupted? I'm ...
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How to create split tar archive in multiple stages to save space?
I have a very large folder that I am trying to create a tar archive of. The issue is I don't have enough extra free space to store the entire archive so I want to create say 100-200GB chunks of the ...
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Unable to extract entire tar to a particular directory in solaris
I wish to extract /tmp/moht/104.tar to /tmp/moht/ directory
ls -ltr /tmp/moht/104.tar
-rwxrwxr-x 1 meadmin meadmin 933498880 Jan 5 07:03 /tmp/moht/104.tar
I tried the below commands, but it ...
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tar gz a directory in another location into a destination directory
I have the following directory structure:
/home/
|__dirA/
|__ dir_to_zip/
|__ file1.txt
|__ file2.txt
|__ ...
|__dirB/
|__ dir_to_save_in/
|__dirC/
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What would the value of hyphen actually look like in this instance used to refer to stdin for this archive command?
I am following a guide to learn terminal commands and have encountered the use of hyphens to refer to stdin in the following command used to find all files named 'file-A' within the directory ...
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Exclude directories with tar and pingz
I can't work out why my exclude isn't working:
tar --exclude=/{dev,proc,tmp,mnt,backup} -I pigz -cf backup.gz *
Gives me:
root@ca1:/# tar --exclude=/{dev,proc,tmp,mnt,backup} -I pigz -cf backup.gz *
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cronjob creates tar file but unable to upload it
I am trying to schedule a backup script using a combination of cronjob, 'tar, and upload to an HPSS using htar utilities. I have set absolute paths in the crontab for all commands needed in the script,...
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running script with cron doesn't archive the whole directory but running the same script manually does include whole directory
link for the file showing difference between two archives
Backup of dec-12 was taken through cron while backup of dec-13 was taken by running the script manually.
And I haven't worked or added any ...
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Copying from EFS & Untar
I have a ~100 .tar files stored on AWS EFS, each one is ~6GB in size.
I have mounted the EFS to my EC2 machine, looped over each .tar file, and untarred it into EBS.
The thing is - that it takes quite ...
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Simple tar extraction failing with file not found
I have a tarball called playground.tar with the following file:
test.txt
When I extract everything there is no problem but when I try and extract a single file it throws the following error when I run ...
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got “tar: /path/to/my/dir: Not found in archive” error while verifying created archive
I did compress a directory to .tar.xz archive format with this command:
tar --create --verbose --file myArchive.tar.xz /path/to/my/dir
then,I tried to check health of created archive with following ...
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How to limit CPU usage while tar'ing a large file on a mounted NTFS partition?
I currently tar -cvf a 600gb folder, on the background, without compression.
I noticed that my ubuntu lags so much during this process, that it becomes practically unusable. When I top I see that
60% ...
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tar / pack `a-r` “unreadable” files
If there are files unreadable even to the owner (chmod a-r), tar and other tools will throw errors when creating an archive. However, these files could be updated with chmod u+r before archiving, and ...
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“xz : (stdout) : Write error: File too large” while writing a tar archive
I wanted to compress a directory whit size of about 25 GB to .tar.xz format using following command:
tar --xz --create --verbose --file myArchive.tar.xz /patch/to/my/dir
but got these error lines:
xz:...
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how to fix “tar: Cannot verify compressed archives” error?
I wanted to compress a directory into .tar.xz format and verify it after writing so I wrote a command like this:
tar --xz --create --verbose --verify --file myArchive.tar.xz /patch/to/my/dir
but it ...
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tar exclude not working within the bash
I can't get to work tar exclude with the bash script.
#!/bin/bash
CMD='tar --exclude=*.{db,log,token} -zcvf /home/pi/backup/2020.11.08-18.04.59.backup.tgz -P /home/pi/backup/test'
echo $CMD
sudo $CMD
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How to extract specific files using FIND + TAR command
I would like to know if it is possible to extract a specific file inside tar file using find command.
Example:
Normal situation: find filaname called "file1" and extract
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extraction archive
~/Downloads/t1$ tar tf test.t
home/a/Downloads/t2/
home/a/Downloads/t2/z.txt
home/a/Downloads/t2/y.txt
~/Downloads/t1$ tar xf test.t
~/Downloads/t1$ ls ~/Downloads/t2
ls: cannot access ’/home/a/...
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linux + how to split ISO file to separate pieces [duplicate]
we are using the following ISO file for rhel upgrade
4.2G RHEL-7.6.iso
since we have problem to copy this ISO file between WIN to Linux machine
and that because sometime network problem cause ISO ...
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How common is tar support for unpacking tars with long names (100+ characters)?
Today I encountered an issue where I couldn't tar a file with Java using Commons-Compress on Windows because one of the file names was longer than 100 characters. I was looking for solutions and found:...
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tar fails with "/rw/internal_apps/rainbow/filebrowser-xxx/proc/29826/exe: cannot read link: No such file or directory
I am trying to tar the system directories of a device running an embedded version of Linux but it fails. Here are the last few lines of the stderr.
tar: /rw/internal_apps/rainbow/filebrowser-45905a3/...
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is it safety to compress LINUX ISO file and approach suggestion
We are working to upgrade our rhel servers ( rhel 7.1 ) to rhel 7.8 by rhel 7.8 ISO file
Since we have 296 rhel servers version rhel 7.1 we plan to do the upgrade as the following
We build Linux ...
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294GB tar file, what are foreseeable problems?
In rhel 7.8 I have a folder called /study that has a bunch of data. It was ~500GB in size.
I did gzip -9r /study and it reduced that folder to 294GB as reported by du -sh /study
I then did tar -cf ...
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How to tar.gz all files and directories from a given list of complete paths while maintaining directories and file permissions?
How do I create a tar.gz from
A list of FULL PATH files (such as /root/test/abcd/123.txt )
that includes both directories AND files
that preserves the ownership AND permissions of both files and ...
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tar archive restarts after a certain time
I have a folder with over 200k files in it. I want to archive only the ones beginning with a certain name(file names are super large). Example sudo find /path/to/_Logs -name "RATE*" -print0 |...
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Tar: File changed as we read it/ file removed before we read it Errors
I'm trying to create an automated backup script using the tar command:
tar -czg /home/user/BackupArchiv/snapshots/snapshot_2020-10-12 -f /home/user/BackupArchiv/backup_2020-10-12/backupfull.tar.gz /...
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How to tell if piping a tar file as a stream to curl is streaming vs. saving to a cached file first?
I am trying to archive a folder using tar and then use curl to stream upload it without having to take up any space in my hard drive or memory. I have
tar cf - "FOLDERNAME" | curl -v -T - \
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Tar confusing error messages
I'm trying to create an automated backup file using the tar command.
tar -czg /home/user/BackupArchiv/snapshots/snapshot_2020-10-09 -f /home/user/BackupArchiv/backup_2020-10-09/backupfull.tar.gz /home ...
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find out how many (posix) tar header blocks a file will require
Posix (pax) tar uses extended headers to allow long filenames etc..
Is there a way to find out how many 512 byte blocks will be used for the header for a particular file (before actually running the ...
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Tar command saves file in working directory instead of specified directory
I'm trying to make a automatic backup via the tar command:
datum=$(date +%F)
buweek=backup_$datum
snap=snapshot_$datum
mkdir /home/user/BackupArchiv/$buweek
tar -czvg /home/user/BackupArchiv/...
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Checking if tar file exists | bash script
I am trying to test if the tar file I am about to create already exists. If it doesn't then I want to create the tar file (this part of the code works). However the if statement testing if that file ...
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Creating a tar file in a specified directory in a shell script
I am trying to create a tar file of an existing file or directory (file_dir_name) in a specified directory (dir_path). I need the tar file to be named new_name.tar in the new directory. However, when ...
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How portable is a gzip file over 4 GB in size?
To backup a snapshot of my work, I run a command like tar -czf work.tgz work to create a gzipped tar file, which I can then drop in cloud storage. However, I have just noticed that gzip has a 4 GB ...
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End of tape detection (ENOSPC) in tar multi-volume mode with pipes for encryption
Using tar in multi-volume mode relies on a ENOSPC error to detect the end of the first tape and prompt the user for the next tape.
To simulate this behaviour consider the following example by writing ...
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Tarring up a a read-only partition
I'm new to Linux, and this is probably a silly question, but is there a way to set a partition to read-only and then tar up all the files on that partition and put them in a tar.gz on that partition? ...
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How to archive (tar) a folder and encrypt with gpg in one fell swoop without doing both separately?
I currently encrypt folders for upload to google by doing:
First tar:
tar cf foldername.tar /path/to/foldername
and then gpg:
gpg -c --cipher-algo AES256 -o foldername.tar.gpg foldername.tar
I am ...
