Questions tagged [tar]
The tar archive format and/or the command-line utility for working with tar files.
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extract tar then enter its directory (shell scripting)
How do I make script exctract tar then enter the extracted tar directory?
I was trying
xtract
#!/bin/bash
tar -xvf $1 && cd $1
Usage example
suppose there's foo.tar.xz
so how to use it: ./...
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File contained in compressed TAR archive missing after decompressing
The data.tar.xz in libemu2_0.2.0+git20120122-1.2build1_amd64.deb is weird.
If I use tar tvf or tar xvf there is a file ./usr/bin/sctest, but after I decompressed the archive with tar xvf, the file ./...
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Oneliner to archive, test the archive and remove source folder or stop if error
I've made my small shell function to un-compress the latest archive in a specific folder, then use it (code removed for sake of clarity), and then make an archive, test it and if everything is ok, ...
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tar unzipping old file content [closed]
Say I have a g zipped file named test.tgz with the content having a file named hello.txt and reads hello world.
I would unzip it using tar -zxf and make some modifications in hello.txt to read hello....
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Difference in total size between files on disk and files in tar archive
I'm a new Linux user and still learning it. As I understand, the tar command (by itself and without options like z, j or J) doesn't compress files by default. It only bundles multiple files into a ...
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Create a tar.gz file from a different directory, tar must keep files in specific directory structure
Here is my file structure. I am currently residing in test2/ directory, and all commands must run from there.
test/
|_test2/
publish/
|_subfolder1/
|_f1
|_f2
|_f3
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tar invalid transform expression error due to whitespaces over ssh call
I am using tar --transform over SSH call to rename the documents during archiving based on array DOCUMENTNAMES.
tar -uvf /tmp/$TARGET''TVL_document.tgz'' --transform='s|'\${doc}'|'\$docname'|' -C /...
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Alternatives to compressed tarballs
I am reading/writing data from/to tapes using Debian and recently ran into an issue where I needed to figure out the size of the stored data stream, i.e. the data actually written to the tape (see ...
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Read file size from tape
I have a tape with a .tar.lzma archive written to it. How can I determine the size of the .tar.lzma archived as is? In other words, I'm looking to find the size of the compressed archive, not the size ...
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Make tar on multiple predefined tapes
How do I tar some files to multiple tapes, with each tape being listed in advance? This way I can have a fully-unattended archival, with no need to physically change media once a tape is full.
In my ...
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Compress several files according to the pattern
I would like to know how to compress several files according to the pattern using gzip, tar, etc... that is, if I have these files:
server_regTCA.log.2021.02.12
server_regTCA.log.2021.02.13
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Unable to update tar.gzip despite using gunzip in CentOS 7
I am novice to Linux.
I am trying to update a tar.gzip located in /path/to/dir by another file located in /path/to/new_dir/. The file is the latest modified file in path/to/new_dir/. I am using the ...
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How to archive and compress large dataset into parts efficiently?
Currently using following model, but one needs double the amount of disk space to restore compressed archive given one has to pipe all parts to tar before one can delete them.
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How can I extract a specific file from an tar archive into the current directory?
I can extract a specific file from a tar archive like this:
tar xvf gh_2.5.1_linux_armv6.tar.gz gh_2.5.1_linux_armv6/bin/gh
This extracts to the current directory, but the gh file is still within the ...
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Linux Command to run a file
I am trying to run a Foxitreader. I have run a tar on it. But why do I need to execute the setup with
Why do I have to run a file beginning with './' in Downloads? What does that mean?
./FoxitReader....
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How to prevent tar from removing leading slashes? [duplicate]
When I use the command
tar -czf /var/backups/completa.tgz -g /var/backups/backup.info /home
... then tar says
tar: Removing leading `/' from member names
How may I prevent tar from removing the ...
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Difference between two tar commands -cf and -Jchf
I have a python script that is running in two places, two different, but similar commands:
os.system("tar cf - -C %s . 2>/dev/null 3>/dev/null | 7za a -p%s -si %s 1>/dev/null 2>/dev/...
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Podman errors on tar with potentially insufficient UIDs or GIDs available in user namespace
When I run podman run I'm getting a particularly weird error,
❯ podman run -ti --restart=unless-stopped -p 80:80 -p 443:443 rancher/rancher:latest
✔ docker.io/rancher/rancher:latest
Trying to pull ...
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Extracting a symlink-containing tarball on git bash
I wanted to extract a compiler's tarball on git bash on Windows 10:
$ tar xzf polyml-5.8.2.tar.gz
tar: polyml-5.8.2/compile: Cannot create symlink to ‘/usr/share/automake-1.16/compile’: No such file ...
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How to extract specific file from partially downloaded tar?
I have a large tar file but it could not be downloaded completely as the browser crashed when verifying the download. Is it possible to extract some files from this tar?
I am able to view the files ...
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Why is it so that when tar is executed from the script I get "command not found", (it runs without giving me such output from the terminal)?
The following script does the job of archiving /home/jerzy/testdir/:
#!/usr/bin/bash
XZ_OPT=-9 tar -cJf /home/jerzy/testdir.tar.xz -C /home/jerzy testdir && \
echo "testdir/ already ...
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Modify all files of a folder prior to archiving them with `tar`
Consider an arbitrary folder $DIR with files and folders in it. I want to TAR this folder to $DIR.tar, but before, as a preliminary step, in all files I want to change string occurrences of FOO to BAR ...
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Archive directory with tar/gz to multiple locations and omit an additional copy
I have a simple backup script, which also creates a tar/gzip archive of local data to an external USB device and then copies that archive to a second USB device.
For example:
usb1="/mnt/usbone&...
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Why is tar archive so much bigger than text file, 10240 bytes?
I've checked these two questions (question one, question two), but they were not helpful for me to understand. I have a file file.txt with 40 lines of Hello World! string. ls -l shows that its size is ...
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How do I decompress a folder of files that I accidently saved as foldername.gz instead of foldername.tar.gz
I'm not sure how I did this. I had to wipe my dedicated server and start again, so I backed up everything to a remote VPS first; during this process, I compressed a folder full of other folders as ...
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Backup remote files with ssh|tar into archive.tar.gz
I am using the command ssh user@remote -p 22 "tar cz my-folder" | tar xz -C /d/local-backups to backup distant folders to my local drive.
It is working fine, and the folders structure is ...
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Create a filtered copy of a .tar.gz file with unwanted files removed [duplicate]
What is the Linux shell equivalent of this Windows shell batch file command?
tar czf b.tgz --exclude="dontwant.tgz" @a.tgz
What I need to achieve:
a.tgz has many files including dontwant....
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Unable to choose compress program
I can't choose the compress program while using tar v1.26.
While this works
tar -c -I 'xz' -f foo.tar.xz *
This won't work:
tar -c -I 'xz -T0' -f foo.tar.xz *
tar (child): xz -T0: Cannot exec: No ...
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ssh_host_[algorithm]_key group owner changed after OS restoration
I've this weird problem which I can't find an answer. Recently I restored a linux machine (RHEL 7.3) from the OS tar archives. Steps taken are as below:
Create OS related filesystems tar archives, ...
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How to open a tar file without using tar xfvz command line?
I have to open a tar file. I used the following command line on my Unix shell:
tar xfvz raw-GWA-data.tgz
I found the following error message:
gzip: stdin: invalid compressed data--format violated
tar:...
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tar compress only if source files updated
I am implementing a process in which a tar.gz file is created that compresses various files needed from the process. When this compression is done I don't want it to be compressed again, or crush the ...
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How might I direct the output of "wget -qO- whatever.tar.gz" to both tar and sha256sum?
The following creates csfile with a hash in it, unpacks go1.17.4.linux-amd64.tar.gz downloaded from Golang's official website,
prints out the checksum to stdout and then removes the no longer needed ...
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Tar pipe to xz results in broken pipe
I have a backup script that runs the following commands:
tar -c dir1 dir2 | xz -9 -T0 | gpg -c --batch --passphrase xxx | aws s3 ...
The return values are always the same: tar fails with 141 (broken ...
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Tar each top level directory separately
How can I create tarballs for a series of directories?
E.g. if my home directory contains directories called “one” “two” “three” and “four” how can I create one.tar.gz two.tar.gz three.tar.gz and four....
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How to manage tar files when creating incremental backups
I use incremental backup using
tar --create --file=/home/blueray/Documents/backup/dest/$(date +%Y-%m-%d-%H-%M-%S).tar --listed-incremental=/home/blueray/Documents/backup/dest/usr.snar /home/blueray/...
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Please how do I retrieve files saved in STDOUT after using the extract while downloading function?
I used the below function to download a large tar.gz file and extract it simultaneously. The files are now saved in STDOUT. Please how do I move them to a different file directory?
wget -q -O - target ...
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How can I see any tar progress when I use `--xform`
I have following function in order to extract discarding directory structure.
tarx() {
STRIP=${1%.*} # strip last suffix
NAME=${STRIP%.tar} # strip .tar suffix, if present
tar -xvf "...
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TAR returns 1 on big directories - how to ignore this?
I'm running the following sequence for backup purposes:
$> set -o pipefail
$> tar -c /vary/large/folder1 /very/large/folder2 | xz ... | gpg ... | aws ...
$> echo "${PIPESTATUS[0]} ${...
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Tarring-gzipping only hidden directories (or files + directories)
Based on this, to tar all hidden files in the current directory one can use
ls -A | egrep '^\.' | tar cvf ./test.tar -T -
However, how can one tar only all hidden directories or all hidden directories ...
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tar list full filename without directory
I have a tgz file with the following file structure
- folder
- subdir1
- file1.txt
- file2.text
- subdir2
- file1.txt
When i run tar -tf folder.tgz, it outputs the following:...
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Exclude directory from tar
I try to compress my wordpress directory /srv/www/vhost/wp-intranet.
But I need to exclude the directory /srv/www/vhost/wp-intranet/wp-content/uploads/
First I changed directory to /srv/www/vhost/ ...
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No space left on device in Linux although enough disk space and inode available
I ran into this problem when copying a lot of files using tar -cf - * | (cd ../bar; tar -xf - );.
I did search on the issue, and found the below suggestions, none of which worked for me. This problem ...
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Kinda complicated tar based on modified date
Okay, I think this is possible, but I can't quite figure it out. This is the situation.
A folder contains the log files of all the processes on my robot. The structure looks sort of like this:
$ ls -...
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How to pipe a file as input to tar command
I get the following error when trying to uncompress piped tar file with the following command :
$ git archive --format=tar 0af62b1 | tar -xf -C /the/path/here/
tar: -C: Cannot open: No such file or ...
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How to tar-gzip a directory and put it in the /tmp
Hey im stuck on a assignment and i dont know how to solve it really because iam quite new with working in linux. I have to place a directory in a tar-ball and zip it using gzip.
At the moment this is ...
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Tar's -r flag name meaning
Why tar flag used to append file to the archive is named -r?
Other flags' names have some explanations (-x for eXtract, -C for Change current dir to another for output, ..) but I can't get how to ...
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How to forward output of split to sftp?
I have a server that is running out of disk space. I want to move some TB sized directories into a long term archive. This is a tape robot with preferred file size of 16GB. Therefore I want to split ...
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tar --from-files, does not interpret hyphen at beginning of a filename
We are using tar 1.26 on CentOS 7.9 and I'm trying to untar an archive that has files in it which begin with a hyphen.
I tell tar through --files-from which files I want to extract, since I don't want ...
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I cannot untar a zip file keep getting error
From the link below I try to follow the steps and I got the curl portion to work but when I type
tar zxf admit.tar.gz
I get
tar: Unrecognized archive format
tar: Error exit delayed from previous ...
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Extract tar.gz file to the same filename
I tried to extract filename1.tar.gz but I got the different name which is the folder archive inside lets say archive_folder; how I can extract the tar.gz with the same name of the filename.
I use this ...
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