Use this tag for questions about files containing other files and/or folders, that are not covered by a more specific tag like tar, cpio, zip, rar, ar, 7z (in that case only use the specific tags). For generic questions about making security backups and rsync's archive mode, use backup.
Questions tagged [archive]
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Utility to easily extract archives
A while back I came across a utility that you could pass an archive to and it would not only take care of figuring out the unarchiver to use, but use the correct command line options, and ensure that the contents of the archive ended up in their own…
user17451
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Is there a GUI tool to show an archive information with ratio visualization?
Is there a GUI tool to show an archive information with ratio visualization like this:
Ivan
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How to brute force ARJ password
The other day I found a 3,5" floppy in my basement. It's one of my backup floppies I used in 1995 and it has several ARJ archives on it.
I still have a floppy drive and yes, it is still readable :-)
The thing is that the archives are password…
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how can I parse parameter to XZ compressor in dar?
in tar I can use XZ_OPT='-9e --thread=10', how can I do this in dar. At least I want to be able to use multithread xz compressor. Any idea how to achieve this?
The same env does not work for dar, it is always single threaded.
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How to physically move a file within the same partition
If I'm working just inside one partition, could I move files around? The idea is to refresh an SD card against bit rot, but without moving the files out and in again.
Quora Feans
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How do I determine low-level file type?
file(1), when directed at some files, says e.g. "Debian binary package (format 2.0)" for *.deb or "OpenDocument text" for *.odt. I'd like to instead have a way to determine what low-level type of archive is used: e.g. it could be ar for Debian…
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How to undo an unrar?
Possible Duplicate:
How to de-unzip, de-tar -xvf — de-unarchive in a messy folder?
I just extracted a RAR archive that contained a lot of files in the base directory. Assuming that there were no filename collisions, what's the easiest way to…
user4518
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Which program is not used for archiving?
Which program is not used for archiving ?
Gzip, tar, cpio or zip ?
I thought cpio is used to copy files from the archive that is why i am a little confused. Out of the four programs which one is not used for archiving or is it a trick question? to…
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