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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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Python, opening TarFile from data in a variable

I get a tar file in the body of a http post request and I want to extract the contents without first writing the tar file to disc. The file used to be a zip file and i could do zip =…
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Python3 tarfile not working with gzipped tarballs

I have a freshly compiled python 3.2.3 on CentOS 6, and I'm having trouble getting the tarfile module working with the gzipped file. Python 3.2.3 (default, Sep 17 2012, 16:49:57) [GCC 4.4.6 20120305 (Red Hat 4.4.6-4)] on linux2 Type "help",…
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Access a large file in a zip archive with HTML in a python-webkit WebView without extracting

I apologize for any confusion from the question title. It's kind of a complex situation with components that are new to me so I'm unsure of how to describe it succinctly. I have some xml data and an image in an archive (zip in this case, but could…
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PHP tar returning path back to root

I'm running the following command to create a backup tarball of a file or folder: system("tar -pczf /home/var/www/temp /home/var/www/folder/to/backup"); It works great, but when I extract I get the path all the way back to the root of the server…
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Linux: copy one file from several directories

I have a situation where I want to copy a specific file "transaction.log" from thousands of directories under linux and build a tar file containing those same specific files. Example: I have thousands of directories under…
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Parsing rsync output

I am trying the parse the progress bar output of rsync command. I want to use the percentage data from the rsync progress bar and display it on a dialog gauge utility. The rsync progress bar data looks like: 32768 0% 0.00kB/s 0:00:00 …
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How do I expand a compressed tar file in Android 2.2 or higher

Given a compressed tar file (created by gzip) on the SDCard I need to expand/uncompress it within an Android app. The tar file contains pictures, text, and subfolders with files under the subfolders. I want the expansion/decompression to maintain…
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tar file number limitation

Does gzip has file limitation Thanks ER
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backuppc method tar no files dumped for share

Ubuntu 11.10 Server; backuppc 3.2.1 Running cgi-bin version Installed as user www-data to avoid issues with perl and apache2 with user backuppc ssh works fine to servers on LAN being backed up The following commandline is reported in the failure…
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Android build system: How to include prebuilt files from a .tar file?

I'm building a customized Android system (JellyBean). I've got a project (from the upstream) containing a .tar file which should be untar'd at the build time and it's content should be copied to a certain place in the resulting directory tree. How…
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Opening .tgz files in C

I'm trying to copy a .tgz file into memory and sending it elsewhere. Using fopen I get a NULL pointer which tells me that a .tgz file isn't a binary file, but I was wondering if it is even possible to open, buffer, and pass a .tgz file using C…
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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 site and have come up with everything I need except…
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python multi volume tar

I'm trying to create multi volume tar file in bzip2 compression. I'm compressing some really big files. What should I do? This works, except doesn't do multi volume thing: out = tarfile.open('../temp/tarfile_add.tar', mode='w:bz2') try: …
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erl_tar can't extract files made with make_tar

I'm putting a release file together, which seems to work fine 1> systools:make_tar("rel/project-1.0"). ok at that point, I get the expected file at rel/project-1.0.tar.gz, however, trying to extract it errors for some reason 2>…
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How to untar all files from archive into one single folder, regardless from their folder nesting?

In one of my applications a user can upload images and archives (ZIP, RAR). When an archive is uploaded, it should be extracted. However, some users will upload archives that contain files in a variety of subfolders (within the archive) What i am…
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