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Tar failing to extract specific files
I am extracting a number of .tar.gz files using a batch script in Windows. The tar files are all different data sets and should generally have the same directory and file structure, just with ...
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How to extract several folders from a very large .tar.gz file on Windows 7?
I have a 150 GB tar.gz file and a Windows 7 machine. I cannot decompress the whole file because it would require a lot of space which I do not have, thus I am looking for a way to extract only several ...
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How to extract all tar.gz files present in multiple folders at a time to another directory?
There are many folders in my current directory. Each folder has a tar.gz file. To extract the tar.gz file I need to be inside each folder and run the following command every time.
tar xvzf tar.gz -C /...
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continue extracting a tarball after job is killed
I am extracting a big tarball, but the job was killed in the midway.
Is it possible to continue extraction without rolling back from the beginning?
The command I was using was
tar xvf foo.tar.gz
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Extracted files not recognized
I extracted a tar.gz file with 7-Zip.
It worked fine, all the files and folders are now visible and have names, different size and so on, yet I cannot open them.
And the icons are all the same - a ...
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How to open big tar.gz file
I created a big tar.gz file, following this guide. It is a daily backup file.
My computer has 3 GB of RAM and is running Windows 7. My biggest archive is 183 GB, containing pictures and documents.
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How to extract .tar.bz2 directly? (avoiding a folder creation)
I always extract this kind of files using on the route where I want those files:
# tar -xvf file.tar.bz2
But it always creates a folder called "file" (for this example) and stores all inside it.
I'...
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Extract a section of a tgz file
I have a 28.5 GB .tgz file which was created on the command line of a Linux computer, compressing one folder and all its many many subfolders. I now want to extract a single sub-sub folder from that ....
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Extract 7z files with standard linux tools?
I know that you can extract .7z files with 7-zip.
Is there another standard linux program that can do this? Maybe one of these
tar
bzip2
xz
gzip
I will add that bsdtar can do this, but is not ...
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How to recursively extract all .tar and .tgz file zipped in a .tgz file using 7zip command line version
I'm using 7zip cmd line version in my app (written in Python on Win 7 box) to extract .tgz files. Although I'm using the -r switch, the .tar and .tgz subdirectories are not extracted. Can someone tell ...
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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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tar shows "is not a bzip2 file" error when uncompressing a .tar.bz file
I've a data_or.tar.bz file
I tried to extract it with
$ tar xjvf data_or.tar.bz
Output is
bzip2: (stdin) is not a bzip2 file.
tar: Child returned status 2
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting ...
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tar command - how to extract one file to specific directory
Is there a way to extract a single file from a tar file to a specific directory?
In fact, I am dealing with a .tgz file so, I am attempting something like this :
gunzip -c mytargzfile.tgz | tar xvf - ...
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In place extract tar archive
I have a little dilemma here...
I needed to move about 70 GB worth of files from one of my servers to the other, so I decided that tarring them up and sending the archive would be the fastest way.
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Untar with date filter
Is there any way to untar and only extract those files that are above a certain date including directory structure??
I restored a backup on a play server but it was a few days old. However I have a ...
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