Timeline for tar: exclude gzip file, and don't try to gunzip it
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| Oct 1, 2012 at 14:11 | vote | accept | giorgio79 | ||
| Sep 30, 2012 at 22:43 | comment | added | cas |
As others have pointed out, tar has to read .tar.gz files sequentially, so it can't find out what's after "huge_mysql_file.gz" without reading it in to get to the next file in the archive. If you need to view the contents of a .tar.gz file frequently, you can always create a text file containing the files list. e.g. tar tvzf my.tar.gz > my.tar.gz.list. you can then read that .list file with less or grep it etc.
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| Sep 30, 2012 at 12:56 | comment | added | polemon | I don't really understand you problem here, but it seems that inside that .tar.gz are other .gz files? If that's the case, then the archive is wrong to begin with. a .tar.gz file, is a gziped tar-file, which contains a collection of uncompressed files. Everything else is pretty much done by an idiot. | |
| Sep 30, 2012 at 12:22 | answer | added | miracle173 | timeline score: 7 | |
| Sep 30, 2012 at 9:16 | comment | added | giorgio79 | It always gets stuck at a large gz file, and when I look at top in another shell window I can see gzip running next to tar. | |
| Sep 30, 2012 at 9:01 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackUnix/status/252332270667579392 | ||
| Sep 30, 2012 at 8:04 | comment | added | Thor |
Try gzip -dc my.tar.gz | tar tf -.
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| Sep 30, 2012 at 7:27 | comment | added | miracle173 | why do you think that tar is gunzipping the file? | |
| Sep 30, 2012 at 6:29 | review | First posts | |||
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| Sep 30, 2012 at 6:24 | history | asked | giorgio79 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |