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A location or file that stores other files or data, normally accompanied by compression, encryption, sorting or organizing.

An archive is a place that you can store files or other data for storage or for sorting.

Archives can be a number of things such as a Database or a Zip or Cab file.

Normally the archive that you place the files or data into, gives you some sort of functionality such as encryption, compression or data querying functionality.

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How to unzip a big zip file containing one file and get the progress in bytes with swift?

I try to unzip a big zip file containing only one item (more than 100MB) and like to show the progress during unzipping. I found solutions where the progress can be determined based on the amount of files unzipped but in my case I have only one big…
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Creating a tar.gz archive with Maven

I have a Maven project, where under src/main directory there is a sub dir called output. this folder needs to be packaged into tar.gz. when using the assembly plugin as follows: From the pom.xml: front …
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Extract a specific folder to specific directory from a tar.gz

I have searched and found how to the two portions of what I want but nothing that would allow you to do it in whole.... What I would like to do is extract a specific folder from a tar.gz to another folder in a different path that how it is in the…
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libarchive - Extract to specified directory

I have a tar file I want to extract with libarchive to a specific directory. How can I make libarchive extract into to any directory I want? At the moment it always extracts into my program's working directory. I looked at this answer but all this…
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How to build and archive iOS application?

How to build and archive or archive only iOS application? I want to archive to .ipa file but cannot select "Product>Archive" or "Product>Build for>Build for Archive" menu (is disabled). I am using Xcode 4.1 on OS Lion. Have any special configuration…
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cpio VS tar and cp

I just learned that cpio has three modes: copy-out, copy-in and pass-through. I was wondering what are the advantages and disadvantages of cpio under copy-out and copy-in modes over tar. When is it better to use cpio and when to use tar? Similar…
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SQL Database Best Practices - Use of Archive tables?

I'm not a trained DBA, but perform some SQL tasks and have this question: In SQL databases I've noticed the use archive tables that mimic another table with the exact same fields and which are used to accept rows from the original table when that…
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PowerShell: Extract specific files/folders from a zipped archive

Say foo.zip contains: a b c |- c1.exe |- c2.dll |- c3.dll where a, b, c are folders. If I Expand-Archive .\foo.zip -DestinationPath foo all files/folders in foo.zip are extracted. I would like to extract only the c folder.
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How can my Java program store files inside of its .jar file?

I know that .jar files are basically archives as well as being applications. What I'm asking is how can I store data(actual files not just strings) packed inside my program? I want to do this within my Java code. The reason for this if your…
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How to read contents of a csv file inside zip file using PowerShell

I have a zip file which contains several CSV files inside it. How do I read the contents of those CSV files without extracting the zip files using PowerShell? I having been using the Read-Archive Cmdlet which is included as part of the PowerShell…
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How to exclude directories with TAR on OSX?

This is my current directory structure on my MacOSX-Machine: kuli at fumpenwuppich in /volume/workspace on master [!?$] $ ls -l total 0 drwxr-xr-x 4 kuli staff 136 Nov 28 16:02 conf drwxr-xr-x 3 kuli staff 102 Nov 28 16:23 html drwxr-xr-x …
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Dynamic archive name in Xcode

I'm updating my archive process to make it easier to use. I already created some schemes and build configurations that avoid me to manually update constants between 2 archives, but now I want to go deeper. When I edit a scheme, the "Archive" section…
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maven: multi-module project assembly into single jar

I have a multi-module project and want to create a single jar containing the classes of all my modules. Inside my parent POM, I declared the following plugin: org.apache.maven.plugins …
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Turn thin archive into normal one

I'm building V8, and by default it builds as a "thin" archive, where the .a files essentially just contain pointers to the object files on your filesystem instead of containing the object files themselves. See man ar for details. I want to be able…
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Xcodebuild Archive Location

I'm currently trying to build an .xcarchive using this command line: xcodebuild -project onething.xcodeproj -target onething archive This places the .xcarchive within a hard to find file location, so I was wondering if there's a configuration to be…
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