Questions tagged [tar]
a utility to archive files into a sequential stream, then commonly placed into one file on disk (previously tapes, hence the name, Tape ARchive)
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How can I see only the names and sizes of elements in a tar?
I need to list the names and sizes of elements in a .tar file using the terminal.
I've used the tvf option, but it seems to give me too much unnecessary information.
Any help will be greatly ...
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Extracting multi part tarball throws an error
I am trying to uncompress a multi-file tar file from here. I have downloaded the files and I am using this command:
tar -xMf Vehicules512.tar.001
then I am getting this reponse:
Prepare volume #2 for ...
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Remove Zitadel from Ubuntu
How does one uninstall Zitadel, the self-hosted authentication management software, from a Ubuntu server? There only seems to be installation documentation on their website.
I installed it on an ...
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How is it possible to extract a file multiple times from a tar file?
I created a tar file of a directory and then extracted some files with their names using the v option. Now if I run the same command again, I still got the same output. Why is it so? Why am I able to ...
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How to Compile the Ubuntu Linux Kernel from the linux-5.4.288.tar.xz tarball under Uuntu 24.10
I am trying to compile the vmlinuz-5.4.288 so I can install it in the /boot directory and make it available as one of the advanced options to boot to so that I can install some graphics drivers that ...
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How to install tar manually in a specific location?
Anyone know how to install tar manually in a specified location? (I did not mean install something from a .tar file. I want to install the tar utility)
Thanks in advance
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TAR output in a single folder for all the files scattered in different folder
I want to tar many files scattered across different folders into a single output folder. Although the folders are named differently, all the files inside have a .bz2 extension.
How can I do this?
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Extract tar file and copy/replace its files to another location
I have a .TAR file containing a folder named data.
The data folder contains a LOT of files and subfolders and also some that are hidden.
I have to copy this 1 on 1 to another location. Existing files ...
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How to make FileZilla work in Ubuntu 24.04? [duplicate]
The filezilla app in the official repositories crashes in Ubuntu 24.04. As a remedy I have downloaded this:
/home/myname/Downloads/FileZilla_3.67.0_x86_64-linux-gnu.tar.xz
I don't have a package to ...
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File permissions problem with samba share on Ubuntu server
I have a samba server with one share running on Ubuntu Server 20.04. I can access this share find from my laptop, logged into the samba server as me. But if I run a process with sudo, which needs to ...
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Two ways to install partimage in Ubuntu 22.04?
I have a folder for the program "partimage", and I want to install partimage in Ubuntu 22.04.
The path to this extracted tar file is (I know it is case sensitive):
/Home/Downloads/partimage/...
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how to uninstall 7z2201-linux-x64.tar.xz applications in ubuntu 22.04?
sudo apt-get purge 7z2201-linux-x64.tar.xz 7z2301-linux-x64.tar.xz
Error like
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate ...
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Including a specific file which is already `--exclude`d in the `tar` command line
I want to backup some directories using tar. However, there are some sub-directories that I want to skip.
So, my command line is something like this:
cd /
tar \
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The sdl2-config script installed by SDL could not be found
I had tried to install archive.tar.gz file, on fresh installed linux OS and it give me this error message.
after i had apply
lm@debian:/$ sudo apt-get install libsdl2-dev
Reading package lists... Done
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DXVK doesn't install in wine prefix
i recently installed spitfire audio app using wine. The app has graphical issues. i was told to install dxvk, but when i did, winetricks returned this error:
Executing cd /home/USERNAME/.wine/...
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