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An archiving program for storing and retrieving files as a collection with support for data compression.

An archiving program for storing and retrieving files as a collection with support for data compression. It is mainly used for compacting multiple files into single one, for easy transporting or compression.

Its name comes from Tape ARchive

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How can I read tar.gz file using pandas read_csv with gzip compression option?

I have a very simple csv, with the following data, compressed inside the tar.gz file. I need to read that in dataframe using pandas.read_csv. A B 0 1 4 1 2 5 2 3 6 import pandas as…
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Shell 'tar: not found in archive' error when using regular expression

When I use tar -xzf *.gz to extract all the .gz files in the current directory, I get Not found in archive error. However, it works fine if I extract one by one or use a for-loop like for file in `ls *.gz`; do tar -xzf $file; done What is the…
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Docker load and save: "archive/tar: invalid tar header"

I'm trying to import a Docker image into Docker on AWS Red Hat Linux (3.10.0-514.el7.x86_64) and am having problems with the error; Error processing tar file(exit status 1): archive/tar: invalid tar header This same image works fine on my local…
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Opening a .tar.gz file with a single command

When I download a .tar.gz file, I open it with two commands, first gunzip and then tar. Is it possible to open it with just one command?
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what does -zxvf mean in tar -zxvf ?

I have seen on many websites commands like this what does the "-zxvf" or the similar commands stand for? tar -zxvf tar xvf
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How to fix 'tar: Failed to set default locale' error?

I'm trying to install a package into R, something I swore on my blood never to do, yet here I am. The command supposedly goes: install.packages('NCStats',,'http://www.rforge.net/')` while I am enjoying the healthy dose of: Warning: dependencies…
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tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now

when I untar doctrine -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 660252 2010-10-16 23:06 Doctrine-1.2.0.tgz I always get this error messages root@X100e:/usr/local/lib/Doctrine/stable# tar -xvzf…
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How to construct a TarFile object in memory from byte buffer in Python 3?

Is it possible to create a TarFile object in memory using a buffer containing the tar data without having to write the TarFile to disk and open it up again? We get the bytes sent over a socket. Something like this: import tarfile byte_array =…
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Extract files contained in archive.tar.gz to new directory named archive

I have a directory containing about 800 .tgz archives, each containing about 10 files. Effectively, I want to convert each archive into a directory of the same name. Is there a simple one line command to do this, or should I write a script?
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How to compare two tarball's content

I want to tell whether two tarball files contain identical files, in terms of file name and file content, not including meta-data like date, user, group. However, There are some restrictions: first, I have no control of whether the meta-data is…
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How to create a tar file that omits timestamps for its contents?

Is there a way to create a .tar file that omits the values of atime/ctime/mtime for its files/directories? Why do we want to do this? We have a step in our build process that generates a directory of artifacts that gets packaged into a tarfile. We…
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python write string directly to tarfile

Is there a way to write a string directly to a tarfile? From http://docs.python.org/library/tarfile.html it looks like only files already written to the file system can be added.
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How to fix NPM package Tar, with high vulnerability about Arbitrary File Overwrite, when package is up to date?

I just installed Flickity from NPM and got an NPM Audit Security Report after running npm audit stating that I have a high vulnerability issue regarding Arbitrary File Overwrite on package tar which is a dependency of node-sass as you can see…
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How do I exclude absolute paths for tar?

I am running a PHP script that gets me the absolute paths of files I want to tar up. This is the syntax I have: tar -cf tarname.tar -C /www/path/path/file1.txt /www/path/path2/path3/file2.xls When I untar it, it creates the absolute path to the…
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Programmatically extract tar.gz in a single step (on Windows with 7-Zip)

Problem: I would like to be able to extract tar.gz files in a single step. This makes my question almost identical to this one: Stack Overflow question for tar-gz. My question is almost the same, but not the same, because I would like to do this on…
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