Commands tagged tar

is preserving creation time, modification time, permission, the directory structure, etc.

Decrypt with:

Create an AES256 encrypted and compressed tar archive.

User is prompted to enter the password.

Decrypt with:

Receives bzip'd tar archive via netcat (openbsd nc) and stores locally. Displays size with pv. Start this receiver first, then the sender.

Tar's up $DIR locally (w/bzip2) and sends remotely to $HOST:$PORT where netcat listens (using openbsd netcat). Start up receiving side command first, then execute this.

You can ran this also with cat for example:

Or even run other command's:

Part of the "atool" package.

Part of the "atool" package

If you vim a compressed file it will list all archive content, then you can pickup any of them for editing and saving. There you have the modified archive without any extra step. It supports many file types such as tar.gz, tgz, zip, etc.

This improves on #9892 by compressing the directory on the remote machine so that the amount of data transferred over the network is much smaller. The command uses ssh(1) to get to a remote host, uses tar(1) to archive and compress a remote directory, prints the result to STDOUT, which is written to a local file. In other words, we are archiving and compressing a remote directory to our local box.

The command uses ssh(1) to get to a remote host, uses tar(1) to archive a remote directory, prints the result to STDOUT, which is piped to gzip(1) to compress to a local file. In other words, we are archiving and compressing a remote directory to our local box.

If archive has leading directory level same as archive name and you want to strip it, this command is for you.

the -a flag causes tar to automatically pick the right compressor to filter the archive through, based on the file extension. e.g.

"tar -xaf archive.tar.xz" is equivalent to "tar -xJf archive.tar.xz"

"tar -xaf archive.tar.gz" is equivalent to "tar -xzf archive.tar.gz"

No need to remember -z is gzip, -j is bzip2, -Z is .Z, -J is xz, and so on :)

Similar, but uses tarball instead of zip file

Simple Compressed Backup of the /etc

Linux compatible

Sometimes you might need to have two copies of data that is in tar. You might unpack, and then copy, but if IO is slow, you might lower it by automatically writing it twice (or more times)

The result of this command is a tar with all files that have been modified/added since revision 1792 until HEAD. This command is super useful for incremental releases.

This may be listed already but this command is useful to untar a specific directory to a different server.