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Find strange TAR archive format
I have some file that can be extracted with tar:
tar -tvf attachment.tar
But when I test it with file I have this result:
attachment.tar: uuencoded or xxencoded text, ASCII text, with CRLF line ...
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What are these pax tarball characteristics and comments?
I created a pax archive with GNU tar 1.34 under Debian 11 and, upon viewing the tarball in 7-Zip (23.01) File Manager on Windows 10, I noticed these fields on the archived items:
Name
Characteristics
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Tar owner map when extracting
Tar has several options to affect how file and directory ownership will be stored in that tar file. For example --numeric-owner, or --owner-map. These options directly affect how the tar file will be ...
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Only one file is extracted from huge tar archive
I have a 124GB tar archive. When I run:
tar xvf archive.tar
I get only a 1.1GB file (which is one of the expected file). What happened to the rest of the files ? Is there a way to recover them?
I ...
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Compress a folder with internal complex folders tree and UTF-8 mixed languages files and formats for archive
I have a cloud folder on my hard-drive which I want to archive, in-order to do so I would like to compress it using best of choice compressor for that task :
Complex sub-tree of internal folders with ...
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Explaining performance irregularities when unpacking .tar.gz archives
This question is about the performance of unpacking, not "how to" unpack.
I notices this just a few days ago, when I started extracting several .tar.gz (will refer to them as archives now) ...
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Error when tar a compressed file
I try to install krona tools, so I downloaded its archive first as follows:
curl -LOk https://github.com/marbl/Krona/releases/download/v2.7/KronaTools-2.8.tar
then
#untar
tar -xvf KronaTools-2.8.tar
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Bypass `-C` flag when unzipping tar archive
I have a .tar.gz archive with the following structure:
opt/client/py/utils/mappings/templates/config.json
opt/
opt/mag/
opt/mag/sw/
opt/mag/sw/apps/
opt/mag/sw/apps/service/
opt/mag/etc/
opt/mag/etc/...
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Decrypting tar archives with gpg -d, the -d flag does not work
My OS is Ubuntu 20.04.2 lts.
I am creating a tar archive from the dir noup1, that contains files and subfolders, with tar cf no1.tar noup1
Encrypt it with gpg -c no1.tar. So now I have a no1.tar.gpg ...
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Uncompress .tar.gz format getting error "tar: Unrecognized archive format"
I've downloaded a ".tr.gz" file with a size of 10 GB from here (after downloading completed, I renamed it and deleted .partb to become dataset cleaned.tar.gz) while I'm trying to uncompress ...
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Archive a big folder with large number of smaller and big files
I need to archive a folder from normal drive into tape in organization data storage and might retrieve them in the later stage. My scenario is
a large folder with size from 10 GB to 300 GB
The folder ...
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7zip has problems extracting POSIX tar archives due to @PaxHeader files
POSIX tar archives contain POSIX headers as "dummy" files named @PaxHeader. 7zip dutifully extracts them, and they all collide, since they are all named the same. 7z then complains about the file ...
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"Smart" fast compression for archiving mixed content?
I would like to backup a computer folder quickly to an archive format (e.g. tar, zip, 7z, gz, etc.). The folder contains many files:
Some are text files that can achieve a good compression ratio. ...
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tar.gz folder and use folder name as name for the archive
I have multiple folders called "runs" in my directory structure that I would like to create seperate archives of because they contain a unmanageable number of files". For this reason, I'd like to use ...
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Why does each subsequent append to a tar archive take longer?
I am constructing a tar archive of size 4.2T in increments of ~440Gb. The timing to complete each of the increments (sections) is given below.
Section 1 [486.01 seconds]
Section 2 [623.42 seconds]...
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