Questions tagged [tar]
The tar archive format and/or the command-line utility for working with tar files.
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is it possible to invoke mc with a tar.gz path as a parameter to open mc directly inside the tar.gz?
I am trying the obvious:
mc file.tar.gz
but the tar.gz is not opened
any ideas?
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The shell not redirecting output of tar to file
I am assuming this is a simple issue, but I don't have any one to double check my work.
Here's my bash script
#!/bin/bash
# establish date format and dump name
DATE=$(date +"%Y%m%d-%H%M")
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tar not preserving symlinks
How to create an archive containing links and the linked files. I have some shared libraries of which I want to create an archive. This is what I tried
mkdir dest
#abc.so is a link file which points ...
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tar extracted file with bad output
I tarred one file with:
tar cf My-tarball.tar path/to/file.txt
Then compressed it:
gzip My-tarball.tar
But when i decompress it and extract it
gunzip My-tarball.tar.gz
tar -xf My-tarball.tar
the ...
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Tar Solaris, how to use -k option?
I want to create an archive splitted on 300k archives
but give me error
tar -cf file.tar -k300 vi*
tar: -k300: No such file or directory
I try to put -k before -c
tar -k 300 -cf file.tar ...
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tar compress inside android adb su root -c sub command produces empty tar file
I just stumbled upon a weird behavior on android:
echo test>/data/local/tmp/test.txt
su root -c "cat /data/local/tmp/test.txt && \
tar -cvzf /data/local/tmp/test.tar.gz /data/local/...
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Download a file with SSH/SCP, tar it inline and pipe it to openssl
I want to download a list of files from a SSH server, then put it in some kind of container (like a tar file) and finally encrypt it (e.g. with openssl).
The point of putting it into a archive is to ...
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Transferring tar data between servers started taking much longer
I have a nightly backup that transfers about 100gb of data from AIX server A to AIX server B using the following command in a script.
tar cf - ./DATA | ssh server_b 'cd /DISKCOPY ; tar xf - '
This ...
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tar having much larger size than the containing files, can I make it smaller? [duplicate]
On Linux Mint 22, I created both GNU, and POSIX versions of tars containing 2 small files with:
$ tar --posix -cf archive-posix.tar auto-fan-control.cpp Makefile
$ tar -cf archive-gnu.tar ...
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How to split tar archive on files matching pattern?
Suppose I have a large sample.tar with content:
foo/...
bar/...
baz/...
...
How to split in two disjoint tarballs so that one archive will contain files matching the pattern and the other archive ...
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Extract and merge multipe tar gz [duplicate]
I have multiple tar.gz archives, the size of each archive is approximately 40 GB:
v1.0-trainval01_blobs.tgz
v1.0-trainval01_blobs.tgz
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v1.0-trainval10_blobs.tgz
I can unpack each archive and get ...
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bsdtar: Include some specific directories after exclude a wide-ranging pattern
As the question, after researching and tried suggestion from other threads[1][2], but I still not sure how to do it for my use case.
I run a container and regularly backup as tar file.
By redirection ...
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GitLab CI/CD: Create tar.gz with content inside current working dir and save tar.gz inside current working dir: tar: .: file changed as we read it
I'm trying to create an archive e.g. archive.tar.gz inside the current working directory e.g. /builds/project/ without saving the archive.tar.gz inside archive.tar.gz.
To prevent this I'm trying to ...
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How to open a .tar.xz indexed archivefile with Midnight Commander?
tar -I pixz -cf foo.tar.xz ./foo compress the Stuff.
tar -I pixz -xf foo.tar.xz decompress the Stuff.
And with pixz -l foo.tar.xz comes a list the contents.
How can i do this with (mc) Midnight ...
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Archiver to backup a changing directory
So there is a directory that is actively changing. I want a backup snapshot, but both tar and zip crash as a file is deleted or changed while they read it.
Is there any archiver in Linux-world that ...
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