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Are .tar.gz files made in Linux with identical files identical to .tar.gz files made in Windows?
I've produced a .tar.gz file in Windows that contains some files to update firmware via a Linux Device. The update failed to take, and a Coworker mentioned the problem was because the .tar.gz did not ...
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Extract folder inside large gzip file in windows
I have a 200 gb tar.gz file I need to extract one folder inside this file. I know exact location of the folder need. Is there any way to do that, any third party tools, or any power shell commands ?
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How to zip an entire folder via gzip?
I am trying to zip an entire folder. There's this -r command to zip a folder recursively. Now this is good to zip all the files in a folder, but my predicament is I want to zip the folder in it's ...
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Need to create .tgz file in Windows
I need to create a .tgz file - NOT a tar.gz, a .tgz specifically - in Windows.
I've tried 7zip, Peazip, and ProgramArchiver, but they all create .tar.gz files. I've also tried running 7z from the ...
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how to extract lots of gz files in windows
I have 36,348 .gz files.
I need to extract them all the same directory. In unix I would use gunzip and so forth from the shell.
How would I do it on my windows 7 machine? I can't even get winrar to ...
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How to extract such a compressed file?
I have been asked to extract a ZIP file having in it 3 tar files and each tar file contains around 3000 gz files.
I had to extract the main ZIP file first then extract the tar files second then ...
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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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What command to use to unpack a .tar.gz file in Windows?
I use to receive tar.gz files fromm colleagues but unpacking them with 7zip is not convenient as it unpacks a tar file from gz first while I usually seek to get the tar file contents (so I have to ...
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Winzip error / timestamp in file name related?
I receive an error when attempting to use winzip to extract a .zip file. The filename contains a colon character (used in the timestamp). Is this something that winzip does not handle?
Also, the ...
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Zip/gzip compression ratio much less in Linux than in Windows
I have a bunch of very huge files located on a Linux machine that I would like to compress and save some space. I have tried using the tar/gzip combination and I have noticed that the compression ...
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Why my multiparted .tar unpacs just partly? (missing files)
I have 25 .tar files like: filename.tar.001 - filename.tar.025
When I want to unpack them with cat myarchive.tar.* | tar xvf - it does, but missing files: whole .tar is 1,2 GB, but unpacked files ...
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How do I use 7-Zip CLI for Windows to create .tar.gz archives?
How can I use the 7-Zip CLI (7za.exe) on Windows to create .tgz archives, as I use tar zcvf archive.tgz source_files on Linux?
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gzip - Extracting without deleting zip file
Right now I am running an extract from a .gz file using the Windows gzip.exe.
However when I decompress the file, it kills the .gz file and leaves me with the extract file. For example if I run this ...
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Merge tar files in Windows Server
In my server(windows server) I have 3 tar files. (file.tar, file.tar-2, file.tar-3). I want to merge those files. (Those are generated by some server tool).
So I am looking for a tool to merge ...
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Decompressing these .gz files gives strange/unexpected results, can you get it working?
I have a collection of mailing list archive files all gzip'd, they're in a nested directory structure that starts with what appears to be a blank folder/jargon name.
The files are here: http://lists....
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