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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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Archive directory structure without file contents
I would like to create an archive capturing the entire structure of a directory, including subdirectories and files. Preferably preserving file attributes such as modification time. The archive ...
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Extracting a tar.gz file returns, “This does not look like a tar archive.”
I have a tar.gz file and I want to extract it using terminal. I used following commands: tar tvzf ldtp_3.5.0.orig.tar.gz and tar -xvzf ldtp_3.5.0.orig.tar.gz. However, I get the same result for both ...
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What is the advantage of using 'tar' today?
I know that tar was made for tape archives back in the day, but today we have archive file formats that both aggregate files and perform compression within the same logical file format.
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Find a list of files from text file in subdirectories and put into tarball?
I have a list of files I need to tar. Typically, I would use
tar -cvf allfiles.tar -T mylist.txt
But I discovered that the files I need are scattered into subdirectories and my list only has the ...
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Linux: Specifying top level-directory when creating zip archive
I have project with the usual directory structure (src/, bin/, ...), i.e
project-name/
|-- bin
|-- lib
|-- src
`-- Makefile
And would like to create an archive with the following directory structure:...
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Modifying the path inside an archive for extraction
I would like to change the path of extraction of a .tar.gz archive. The files are supposed to extract as ./1/2/3/4/files, ./1/2/3files and so on.
The .1/2 part of those is common to all the files.
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How do I password protect a .tgz file with tar in Unix?
I'm using the Unix tar command as follows to tar up a directory and its files:
tar cvzf fileToTar.tgz directoryToTar
Is there a way to password protect the .tgz file? I've created password-...
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Ignoring path while archiving with TAR
I have a file that contain list of files I want to archive with tar.
Let's call it mylist.txt
It contains:
/path1/path2/file1.txt
/path1/path2/file3.txt
...
/path1/path2/file10.txt
What I want to ...
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Unix/Linux program that can handle all popular compression/archiving formats (e.g.tar, gzip, bzip2, zip)? [closed]
I sometimes get confused by the varying command line options I need to run common Unix archiving and compression software (e.g. gzip, bzip2, zip, tar).
Is there a program out there that can just Do ...
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Howto unzip ".xz" file with 7z and lzma
I tried to uncompressed a "*.xz" file with both 7z and lzma.
But they gave me such message:
$ 7z x myfile.fq.xz
7-Zip 4.57 Copyright (c) 1999-2007 Igor Pavlov 2007-12-06
p7zip Version 4.57 (...
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tar – extract discarding directory structure
unzip has a nifty option -j, whereby the directory structure of the archive is discarded, and all files are extracted into the same directory.
Is there a way of making tar work in the same way? ...
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Map "untar" to tar xvfz?
How can I map 'untar' as a command to 'tar -xvfz' ? Sorry, but I almost always forget the arguments necessary to 'tar' for this operation.
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