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how to send the decompressed output of archives to standard output?
When you decompress a gzip archive with gunzip without any arguments, the archive disappears, and you're left with the decompressed file in its place.
However, if you use the -c option, the archive ...
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Compress and provide single-file access to 10 million files [closed]
I have ~10 million small text files and I would like to solve the following tasks:
compress all the data;
put it all into 1 file to transfer over the Internet;
be able to access each single file ...
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How to view specific path inside tar.gz?
tar -tf file.tar.gz let's me view inside the whole archive. How do you view a specific path without viewing the whole thing? E.g., I want to view only /path/foo/
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This command almost works ...
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Compare compression: gzipping individual files vs. gzipping tar of same files
Consider a hypothetical archive format that does the following under the covers, given a list of files to pack:
gzip each file individually
Tar the gzips together
Contrast this with traditional tar ...
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Archive (.tar.gz) Corruption
I've got a .tar.gz archive that has definitely suffered some kind of corruption. The data inside the archive is obviously very precious to me and I'd really like to get my hands on as much as possible....
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gzip archive with damaged begin
How to recover as much as possible gzip file content when begin of this file is damaged?
Is it possible? I tried commands gunzip -c , zcat, openssl zlib -d etc.
Unfortunately that commands doesn't ...
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Is Gzip supposed to honor original filename during decompress?
This question stems from a Crypto++ library question on Stack Overflow: How to add filename to archive if compressing using Gzip class?.
Gzip, as specified in RFC 1952 has an optional field for the ...
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Removind same *.tar.gz archives
I have crontab event archives to .tar.gz some folder every N hours. Finally I have collection of .tar.gz files. Now I want remove duplicating archives (created while target files stays unchanged) How ...
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One-click to create and extract .tar.gz files in Windows?
I'm using 7-zip latest alpha version (9.30) and I find it really inconvenient that, if I want to create a .tar.gz archive, I have to create a .tar archive first then add it to a .gz archive later.
So ...
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Find out the size of a .tar.gz archive in the terminal without unpacking
I have a 32GB .tar.gz archive and I'd like to know the size of the files if I unpack this compressed archive. I'd like to avoid unpacking the archive first and than use e.g. du.
Is it also possible ...
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How can I evaluate the best choice of archive format for compressing files?
In general, I've observed the following:
Linux-y files or tools use bzip2 or gzip for distributing archives
Windows-y files or tools use ZIP for distributing archives
Many people use 7-Zip for ...
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Control gzip compression rates while archiving files with tar?
I have a script which periodically backs up a directory using the command "tar -czvf [name] [directory]" but my problem is that the script has recently been putting a lot of stress on the server (...
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Tar and gzip together, but the other way round?
Gzipping a tar file as whole is drop dead easy and even implemented as option inside tar. So far, so good. However, from an archiver's point of view, it would be better to tar the gzipped single files....
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programmatically extract tar.gz in a single step (on windows with 7zip)
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: stackoverflow question for tar-gz.
My question is almost the same, but ...
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