The tar archive format and/or the command-line utility for working with tar files.
Questions tagged [tar]
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How to extract specific file(s) from tar.gz
How can we extract specific files from a large tar.gz file? I found the process of extracting files from a tar in this question but, when I tried the mentioned command there, I got the error:
$ tar --extract --file={test.tar.gz} {extract11}
tar:…
Ankit Vashistha
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tar --exclude doesn't exclude. Why?
I have this very simple line in a bash script which executes successfully (i.e. producing the _data.tar file), except that it doesn't exclude the sub-directories it is told exclude via the --exclude option:
/bin/tar -cf /home/_data.tar …
ateiob
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creating a tar archive without including parent directory
I am trying to create a graphical program for my script.
Inside the script I use tar to create a tar archive.
From the graphical program I get the full name of file that I want to create a tar archive.
tar -cvf temp.tar…
Sujit Maharjan
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tar exits on "Cannot stat: No such file of directory", why?
I'm trying to create tar.gz file using the following command:
sudo tar -vcfz dvr_rdk_v1.tar.gz dvr_rdk/
It then start to create files (many files in folder), but then I get the following error:
tar: dvr_rdk_v1.tar.gz: Cannot stat: No such file or…
ransh
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How to create tar archive in a different directory?
I want to create a tar archive in a different directory rather than the current directory.
I tried this command:
tar czf file.tar.gz file1 -C /var/www/
but it creates the archive in the current directory. Why?
Omid
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Extract multiple .tar.gz files with a single tar call
I was wondering whether (and, of course, how) it’s possible to tell tar to extract multiple files in a single run.
I’m an experienced Unix user for several years and of course I know that you can use for or find or things like that to call tar once…
scy
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How to untar safely, without polluting the current directory in case of a tarbomb?
Respectable projects release tar archives that contain a single directory, for instance zyrgus-3.18.tar.gz contains a zyrgus-3.18 folder which in turn contains src, build, dist, etc.
But some punk projects put everything at the root :'-( This…
Nicolas Raoul
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Why is tar archive so much bigger than text file, 10240 bytes?
I've checked these two questions (question one, question two), but they were not helpful for me to understand. I have a file file.txt with 40 lines of Hello World! string. ls -l shows that its size is 520 bytes. Now I archive this file with tar -cvf…
Boris Kalinin
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Prevent showing time stamp message when running "tar xzf"
When running tar xzf, how to prevent this message (Prevent showing time stamp message):
tar: node: time stamp 2011-06-07 02:02:30 is 8309 s in the future
tar: user/Node: time stamp 2011-06-07 01:56:05 is 7924 s in the future
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tar with relative paths
I try to create an archive with tar using relative paths. I use the following command:
tar czf ~/files/wp/my-page-order.tar.gz -C ~/webapps/zers/wp-content/plugins/ ~/webapps/zers/wp-content/plugins/my-page-order
But the archived files still have…
Mert Nuhoglu
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What does the -f parameter do in the tar command
When using tar I always include -f in the parameters but I have no idea why.
I looked up the man and it said;
-f, --file [HOSTNAME:]F
use archive file or device F (default
"-", meaning stdin/stdout)
But to be honest I have no idea what that means.…
Toby
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Remove files from tar archive
I have a large file foo.tar.xz that contains a lot (say 200000) of files. I figured out that this archive contains some (around 5000) files I don't want. I don't have sufficient disk space to decompress the whole thing onto my disk; additionally, I…
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How do I extract with tar to a different directory?
This doesn't work:
tar xf /tmp/foo.tar.gz foo/bar
tar: foo/bar: Not found in archive
It's not obvious to me what would do this beyond extracting it in place and moving the files over.
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tar extract into directory with same base name?
I have a zipped file like myArchive123.tar.gz. Inside, it contains a folder like helloWorld
If I extract it with tar -xf myArchive123.tar.gz, I get the helloWorld folder:
ls
myArchive123.tar.gz
helloWorld
I want the output to be the same as the…
Leo Ufimtsev
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tar list files only
Fun fact: If you use Archive Manager and extract a .tar.gz so that you have "Keep directory structure" unticked, you will get a tarbomb.
tar -ztf lists all the files and directories in a tar file.
Is there a way to list all the files in a tar file,…
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