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GNU tar creates and manipulates archives which are actually collections of many other files; the program provides users with an organized and systematic method for controlling a large amount of data.

GNU tar creates and manipulates archives which are actually collections of many other files; the program provides users with an organized and systematic method for controlling a large amount of data. The name “tar” originally came from the phrase “Tape ARchive”, but archives need not (and these days, typically do not) reside on tapes.

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How to list content from a tar file without recursion?

I've a tar (gz, bzip) file and want to see its content, but not recursively. This is: The "first level" in the file. I already know how to see content: tar -ztf file.tar.gz But it's recursive!! Thanks!
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Get files from server two steps away

We have the following situation: My machine A gateway machine The target machine I have no root rights on both #2 and #3. I can also not really store information (no more then 200 MiB) on machine #2 (since it is ment to be a gateway into the rest…
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Force tar to ignore/skip errors while compressing files?

Let's say I do this tar cfzp home.tar.gz /home (takes a while) and a file changes during compression and tar fails, I get "file changed as we read it" and tar stops. I assume home.tar.gz is now incomplete, or was that just the "notice" and not…
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Can I extract a specific folder using tar to another folder?

I am new to the world of Linux and seem to have run into a stumbling block. I know I can extract a specifc archive using the command tar xvfz archivename.tar.gz sampledir/ however how can I extract sampledir/ to testdir/ rather than the path that…
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Getting errors while making backup of whole centos with tar

I am trying this command tar cvpzf /TEMP_BACKUPS/backup.tgz --exclude=/proc --exclude=/lost+found --exclude=/tmp --exclude=/TEMP_BACKUPS --exclude=/mnt --exclude=/sys / > /TEMP_BACKUPS/mylog.txt and i am getting this error. I have tried twice tar:…
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How to show numerical UIDs/GIDs stored in tar file

I've got some troubles with a tar file that holds a backup. It was provided by our hosting provider and contains some strange file permissions. When viewing with tar tvf example.tar I only get the symbolic owner information of each file (which do…
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tar padding with zeros

When performing a tar on a bz2 compressed file I am encountering the following error, tar: dump.sql: File shrank by 19573448400 bytes; padding with zeros Can anyone point what might be causing this issue ? Thanks.
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How can you designate an arbitrary leading path when adding files to a tar?

Is it possible to set an arbitrary path within a tar archive to place files which may not exist on your original filesystem? This differs from the -C switch in that I may want to take a back up of /etc/, but place it in the archive as…
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Tar: avoid archiving of files larger than certain size

I want to archive files (with tar) which are below 3 MB in size. But I also want to retain the directories in which those files exist. (so I cannot use find command). I just want to avoid the files which are above 3 MB in size. How can this be done?
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How to exclude files from TAR archive using regular expressions?

I have a simple question, yet I can't find or solve the answer. I want to make a tar archive, but I want to exclude some files from it using regular expression. Example of the file to exclude is this: 68x640X480.jpg I have tried this with no…
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Linux: How to break a large file into smaller files?

I have a giant file (>20 gigs) sitting on my source machine and I need to transfer it to my target machine. For the purposes of this question, let's assume that I do not have network connectivity between the two machines. I need to break this file…
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How to convert a TAR file into an ISO file

I have a Linux TAR file that I would like to convert directly into an ISO. Is there a way to do this, preferably, without having to extract the contents of the file first? This would be similar to the following question; however, this is focused on…
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Which tar file format should I use?

tar can create the archive in different formats. GNU tar, ustar, pax, v7. What would be the best for long time archiving? Is there significant differencies in these formats? I would use the best format for general backups, and I don't want that…
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Delete original tar after untar? Not enough space to untar

I have a 130GB tar file I need to untar to /storage. Problem is, I don't have enough disk space for both to exist at the same time. How can I untar the tar file, and ensure there is enough disk space, and delete the file immediately after…
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Shell command to filter out non-existing files in a pipe

I'm looking for a nice way to generate a backup tar.gz of what is going to be overridden by the extraction of another tar.gz. tar -ztf patch.tar.gz | grep -v "/$" | tar -T- -zcvf backup.tar.gz This works perfectly! However, sometimes, the new patch…
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