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Can tar be forced to exit on the first error?
By default, for many kinds of errors tar prints a message to stderr and then continues on its way -- the errors it calls "recoverable" errors, typically errors that relate to a single file or archive ...
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Merge incremental backups created by tar -g
(forgive my poor English. I'm not native)
As is known, I can make incremental backups using tar:
tar -g testbk -cvpf test0.tar test
(After test/ is modifyed...)
tar -g testbk -cvpf test1.tar test
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Tar backup with progress bar
I would like to add a progress bar to my tar backup command. I found out that bar should be able to do this, but I am unable to figure out the correct command.
sudo tar pzcf - /media/data | bar > ...
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Used tar with wrong order of arguments and overwrote original file. Any way to recover?
Pretty noob move but used tar with the source and destination file arguments swapped resulting in a complete mess (the source file has been overwritten with another file of same name with size 4kb).
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tar error message: “stdin: not in gzip format”
I'm having difficulty with tar on a headless Ubuntu Server 12:
ubuntu@domU-12-31-39-02-C0-98:~$ wget -o dropbox.tar.gz "http://www.dropbox.com/download?plat=lnx.x86"
ubuntu@domU-12-31-39-02-C0-98:~$ ...
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Undo tar file extraction mess
I just untar'd an archive that produced a mess of files into my tidy directory. For example:
user@comp:~/tidy$ tar xvf myarchive.tar
file1
file2
dir1/
dir1/file1
dir1/subdir1/
dir1/subdir1/file1
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Seeking a GUI archiver with the ability to exclude files/folders with tickboxes
I've been searching for a GUI tool to create zip, 7-zip or tar archives that will allow me to include and exclude files and folders using a GUI. The dialog during archive creation should look ...
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Guess compressability of a large file
I have a large file (~20 GB) and I want to quickly make an (approximate) estimate of how well it can compress. I want an program which can provide an immediate guess at the compressed filesize, and ...
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tar: This does not look like a tar archive
I split a huge folder:~
tar cvpf - somedir | split -b 50000m
and then,I transfered split files to another server and merge it:~
cat x* > somedir.tar.gz
but when I tried to extract the file, ...
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Combining files in .tar file in Linux
I have a problem with zipping files in .tar file in Linux, but the challange is that when we extract .tar file it shouldn't give us a folder containing files which are zipped . It should give just ...
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How to untar in Emacs dired?
Is there a simple way to untar files in Emacs Dired? Currently I'm doing a M-! tar -xvf <filename>, however I feel like there is be an easier way.
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Linux: what is a most convenient way to see the content of .jar file
What is a most convenient way to see the content of .jar file w/o using unzip/untar commands?
What I'd like to do - is to browsing inside using cd command like it is the usual folder,
seeing content, ...
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how to open .nt Files after exttractin them from tar.gz using windows os
I downloaded a compressed file from this site and the format of file is tar.gz. My OS is Windows 7.
When I attempt to open it it contains a one file with.nt format.
I clicked on it in order to ...
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Create a tar and splitting it into multiple archives then putting them back together
I am using the following for creating the tgz files:
tar zcf - /usr/folder | split -b 30720m - /usr/archive.tgz
Now I get three files: archive.tgzaa, archive.tgzab and archive.tgzac
So again I ...
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Elimination of directory structure in a tar.gz file
$ tar -zcvf archive/test.tar.gz files
will give me as below :
files/
files/1
files/2
files/3
--
$ tar -zcvf archive/test.tar.gz -C files .
will give me as below :
./
./1
./2
./3
I am not ...
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bsdtar stops recursion at first level when archiving
Title pretty much says it all. Yesterday morning a command like the one below would work properly, tarring and zipping the entire contents of a directory and all its subdirectories; yesterday ...
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Unable to open a tar.gz file
Are there any alternative ways to open a ".tar.gz" file than -xzf or -zxvf or xzvf? I am running Mac OS X 10.7.
My command line returns:
tar: Unrecognized archive format
tar: Error exit delayed from ...
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Use tar vs bzip2 for creating a .tar.bz2 archive?
I just read that tar can create .tar.bz2 files. All this while, I was using tar + bzip2 to do this.
I was wondering if there was a difference between using tar to create the archive vs using bzip2?
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7-zip archive with hard links?
I see that tar respects hard links
$ ln clonezilla.iso test.iso
$ tar cfvvJ archive.tar.xz *.iso
-rw-r--r-- Steven 111149056 2012-03-25 07:34 clonezilla.iso
hrw-r--r-- Steven 0 2012-03-25 ...
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chdir warning when opening .tar file on OS X
I need to unarchive a file to the /Developer folder.
Install Qt for iOS SDK
The Qt for iOS SDK has been configured to be
installed in the default Xcode installation location /Developer. It ...
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Extracting a tar file containing files with Chinese names will make the filenames illegible
On my Mac OS 10.6.8 I had a directory full of files that had Chinese filenames. I proceeded to run tar czf mydir.tar.gz mydir
Now when I untar it with tar xzf mydir.tar.gz, the extracted filenames ...
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How to create an archive without hierarchy
I know there are a lot of questions that seems identical, but I haven't found so far my answer.
So let's figure I'm in the current working directory : /test/
I would like to add to an archive ...
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show differences between file and file in (compressed) tar archive
Say I have unpacked a gz-compressed tar file, and do not remember what changes I made to the unpacked files,
or I archived a folder a while ago and want to know what has changed to the files since.
I ...
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Extract 7z files with standard linux tools?
I know that you can extract .7z files with 7-zip.
Is there another standard linux program that can do this? Maybe one of these
tar
bzip2
xz
gzip
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Untar on Solaris 9 : longlink
I'm trying to install MySQL on a solaris 9 machine, and the version of tar on this machine apparently can't handle larger file names. The solution I've found from googling involves downloading GNU ...
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Estimating compressed file size using a list parameter
I am currently compressing a list of files from a directory in the following format:
tar -cvjf test_1.tar.gz -T test_1.lst --no-recursion
The above command will compress only those files ...
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Untar error: tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
i'm trying to untar this file to the public_html folder
the file is currently in /home/user/ ... the public_html is backed up inside so it should just dump the files into the public_html but nothing ...
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“Unexpected end of file” error while uncompressing lzma file
I've got a file called foo.tar.lzma. While trying to decompress it, I get "Unerwartetes Dateiende" ("Unexpected end of file"). I assume I lost quite a lot of bytes, but 1.1 GB are still there.
The ...
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tar doubled the size of the directory
Under Solaris 10 I have directory called apps. I go into that directory and enter:
-bash-3.00# du -hs
7.2G .
Then I entered:
tar -cvf /var/run/apps.tar apps
The result:
-bash-3.00# ls -lad ...
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Continually compressing a stderr stream
Is there some way to continually compress the output of a program (in almost realtime)?
For example I have this program that produces (a lot of) output to stderr. I want to do something like ...
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installing vlc-tar.bz2 and gcc.tar
I need to install vlc player in fedora which is a tar.bz2 file. How can i install it ?
Someone told me that gcc is needed to install this software. How do install gcc-4.6.2.tar ?
Please list the ...
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How to recursively extract all .tar and .tgz file zipped in a .tgz file using 7zip command line version
I'm using 7zip cmd line version in my app (written in Python on Win 7 box) to extract .tgz files. Although I'm using the -r switch, the .tar and .tgz subdirectories are not extracted. Can someone tell ...
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Installing tar.bz2 file of VLC player
I am a new user to linux. I need to install VLC player in fedora. I downloaded tar.bz2 package for VLC player. Now how do i install this player. I searched how to install tar.bz2 and i tried this ...
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Creating separate archives for a set of files
I have directory containing big list of files.
I'd like to gzip each file of a certain mask to a separate archive.
How do i do that automatically?
For example here's sample directory contents:
- ...
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Modifying the path inside an archive for extraction
I would like to change the path of extraction of a .tar.gz archive. The files are supposed to extract as ./1/2/3/4/files, ./1/2/3files and so on.
The .1/2 part of those is common to all the files.
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How do I put header & data in the Tar file format?
I am trying to write a pure C++ tar file manipulation library. Can one simply put the tar headers followed by the data, with nothing special in between, I have looked through Wikipedia, and the gnu ...
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How to ignore some folders when creating a TAR file in Linux?
I have a folder with 85 subfolders. I want to make a customized .tar file, meaning that I want to ignore some folders.
How can I do that?
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Modern command line file compression utilities
I am frequently moving large files around from server to server.
UNIXes comes with standard gzip and bzip2 compressors. However, what open options there exist beyond these, especially ones utilizing ...
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Extract file and folders with specified permissions
I pack a folder with lot of sub-folders and files in Windows with 7zip, upload to VPS and then run the command:
tar -xvzf file.tar.gz
then all unpacked files and folders have permissions of 777. ...
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Use tar and gz to create archive in Ubuntu Terminal
I want to archive 3 folders, given their names in Ubuntu command prompt.
When I use tar -c abc tt zz -> it will do nothing.
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tar - Ignore error when link is broken
I backups with tar. How to ignore error when link is broken? I want to follow links if (and only if) they are not broken. --ignore-failed-read doesn't work, tar exits...
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Can I stop a netcat tar pipe and continue later without overriding existing files?
I'm trying to copy a lot of files from my NAS to my server, about 2TB.
I found that using a netcat tar pipe to copy the directories goes pretty fast, about 40mb/s. It seems to work faster than rsync ...
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tar -x -v -f on tape drive in Ubuntu (latest)
I am given the following command:
tar -x -v -f /dev/rct0 -b 20 *
Could someone please explain its meaning, because in this form it looks completely useless to me. As far as I know -x stands for ...
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How to merge file when unarchive the tarball?
I downloaded a tarball(abc.tar.gz) which has a root folder(abc) and multiple subfolders(a, b, c, etc). And I have a folder called Target in machine(macbook pro), with multiple subfolders(a, b, c, etc) ...
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How to compress all directories that weren't used in the last month?
How can I compress all the directories that do not contain at least one file used in the last month?
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make: my own simple repository
I have got an account on a server at my university. I want to share a program code with another student. I thought I should put it on my github account. Unfortunately, I cannot because the code is ...
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tar compare or diff command line
What is wrong with this?
tar --diff --gunzip --file=/media/disk/filename.tgz
This is GNU tar 1.23 on Ubuntu. The complaint is gzip:stdin:input/output error.
The following just hangs and there is ...
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What does `tar -C` mean?
In the section "Installing Portage", the Gentoo installation docs say:
# tar xvjf /mnt/gentoo/portage-latest.tar.bz2 -C /mnt/gentoo/usr
What does this command do?
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tar shows “is not a bzip2 file” error when uncompressing a .tar.bz file
I've a data_or.tar.bz file
I tried to extract it with
$ tar xjvf data_or.tar.bz
Output is
bzip2: (stdin) is not a bzip2 file.
tar: Child returned status 2
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting ...
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How do I convert tar.bz2 to tar.gz?
I'm new in Linux, is this conversion possible?
Do I need to compress and decompress all content?
