Questions tagged [tar]
The tar archive format and/or the command-line utility for working with tar files.
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How to add tar.gz archive to an ar archive?
I'm trying to install multisim 14.3 using wine, and had to edit one of the packages, specifically the instructions file inside data.tar.gz.
I'm having trouble adding the files back running the command
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Serving a file (e.g. in Apache) from a named pipe (made with mkfifo)
Let's say I use Apache, and that I am in /var/www/html/. I do:
mkfifo test.tar
tar cvf - ~/test/* > test.tar &
In a browser, when trying to download http://localhost/test.tar I get:
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Why did my backup folder with large amounts of repeated data compress so poorly?
I have a folder with around seventy subfolders, each containing a few tarballs which are nightly backups of a few directories (the largest being /home) from an old Raspberry Pi. Each is a full backup; ...
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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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