Questions tagged [tar]
The tar archive format and/or the command-line utility for working with tar files.
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tar returning different exit code when wrapped inside if statement [duplicate]
I have a script which creates a tar archive filtered through xz. I have wrapped the tar command inside an if statement so the script can take different actions depending on whether the archive was ...
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tar not excluding symlinked directories
Tar version:
root@node: /tmp > tar --version
bsdtar 3.4.2 - libarchive 3.4.2 zlib/1.2.11 liblzma/5.2.5 bz2lib/1.0.8
I have a directory structure which looks like this:
root@node: /tmp > ls -...
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What does df actually display? [duplicate]
Today I was using tar to backup the /var directory of my server. At some point, I noticed that this is taking very long, so I used du to figure out how large /var is. It was about 76 GB. My disk had ...
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tar: ./.tar.gz: file changed as we read it | "Flagged" files are unrelated to the file tar is supposed to operate on
I am trying to use tar to recursively compress all files with the .lammpstrj extension within the directory tree starting at the directory whose path is stored in the variable home. home contains the ...
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when tar creates a huge tar file that does not make sense
On RHEL 7-9, on a seemingly good system, with the XFS file system on the root partition, I am trying to
cd /var
tar -cf log.tar log
a du -sh /var/log shows 173M however the tar process will take 10+ ...
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How to untar with excluding one top level folder
I want to exclude the ".git" from untar, but without success.
Here is the folder structure:
mkdir -p /tmp/test
mkdir -p /tmp/test/.git/hi
touch /tmp/test/.git/foo.bar
touch /tmp/test/....
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Program which archives "files" from stdin to stdout, without hitting the disk?
Can anyone suggest a program which:
Creates some form of archive from stdin, out to stdout, with filenames, and without hitting the disk (the data is sensitive)
The program output will eventually be ...
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This does not look like a tar archive, A lone zero block a at 24
I performed this
C:\Users\User> adb exec-out "cd /storage/sdcard1 && tar c * -" > extsdcard.tar
The file returned this:
User@LAPTOP-DJH6CVKH MINGW64 /a/realme 5/sdcard
$ file ...
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Need Help on How to Uninstall .tar.bz2 file in fedora
I installed wingpro-10.0.3.0-linux-x64.tar.bz2 several days ago.
Could you please teach me how to uninstall the application since yum remove or dnf remove don't work on tar.bz2 type file.
Appreciated ...
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Tar new volume script fails with "Syntax error: Bad fd number"
My shell script (see below) is failing partway through execution with "/bin/sh: 1: Syntax error: Bad fd number." This thread suggests that the problem is using the >& construction in ...
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tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors
I running
$ cat /etc/*-release
PRETTY_NAME="Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm)"
NAME="Debian GNU/Linux"
VERSION_ID="12"
VERSION="12 (bookworm)"
VERSION_CODENAME=...
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container options from linux other than tar that work in Windows
I have Windows 10 pc's that do not have winzip or 7zip, or any kind of compression software installed.
do not ask why
As such the windows10 pc's can only do an unzip. They are unable to work with a ....
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tar says Cannot open: No space left on device but df -h and df -i both show the available space is very large
I have around one hundred .tar files and they include millions of small files. I want to extract them to one directory in Linux.
These .tar files are on a mounted LVM EXT4 file system. But no matter I ...
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Why is Tar speed not same?
I heard somewhere on the Internet that cpio is faster than tar.
So I tried to check it with my shell script.
#1/bin/bash
rm ct.tar ct.cpio
sync && sudo sh -c "/usr/bin/echo 3 > /proc/...
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GNU tar how to preserve file immutable attribute set by "chattr +i" in Linux?
I want use tar(GNU tar 1.30) to backup files with immutable attribute set by "chattr +i" in Linux. Command lines below:
mdx@e5450:~$ touch test.txt
mdx@e5450:~$ sudo chattr +i test.txt
mdx@...
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