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Commands tagged tarball

Terminal - Commands tagged tarball - 8 results

git archive HEAD | gzip > ~/Dropbox/archive.tar.gz

2011-06-08 09:44:07

User: tamouse

Functions: gzip

Tags: git tar tarball tar.gz

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bash script to zip a folder while ignoring git files and copying it to dropbox

Similar, but uses tarball instead of zip file

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tar cf - <dir>|split -b<max_size>M - <name>.tar.

2009-11-11 01:53:33

User: dinomite

Functions: split tar

Tags: tar split tarball archive

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Split a tarball into multiple parts

Create a tar file in multiple parts if it's to large for a single disk, your filesystem, etc.

Rejoin later with `cat .tar.*|tar xf -`

tar pzcvf /result_path/result.tar.gz /target_path/target_folder

2009-11-10 11:17:00

User: CafeNinja

Functions: tar

Tags: backup tar tarball

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Create a simple backup

The command as given would create the file "/result_path/result.tar.gz" with the contents of the target folder including permissions and sub- folder structure.

7z x -so testfile.tar.7z | tar tvf -

2009-07-15 21:00:58

User: slashdot

Functions: tar

Tags: ls tar tarball archive 7zip

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List contents of tar archive within a compressed 7zip archive

Sometimes it is handy to be able to list contents of a tar file within a compressed archive, such as 7Zip in this instance, without having to extract the archive first. This is especially helpful when dealing with larger sized files.

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tar cf - /path/to/data | 7z a -si archivename.tar.7z

2009-07-14 14:21:30

User: slashdot

Functions: tar

Tags: tar tarball archive 7z 7zip zip compress

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Create a tar archive using 7z compression

Using 7z to create archives is OK, but when you use tar, you preserve all file-specific information such as ownership, perms, etc. If that's important to you, this is a better way to do it.

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for i in *.tar.gz; do tar -xzf $i; done

2009-06-13 03:58:48

User: kureikain

Functions: tar

Tags: tarball

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Extract multiple file in a directory

You can flexibly change file pattern(*.tar.gz) and uncompress command to other job!

Example, remove all files :

for i in *.tar.gz; do rm $i; done

(Just for example, because if you really want to remove file, simply use wildcard like this rm *.tar.gz)

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cd <YOUR_DIRECTORY>; for i in `ls ./`; do tar czvf "$i".tar.gz "$i" ; done

2009-06-11 18:33:27

User: ElAlecs

Functions: cd tar

Tags: backup tar tarball

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tar per directory

Very simple and useful, you need to change the word "directory" for your directory

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find /var/logs -name * | xargs tar -jcpf logs_`date +%Y-%m-%e`.tar.bz2

2009-06-02 19:48:47

User: unixmonkey4063

Functions: find tar xargs

Tags: find tarball

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Archive every file in /var/logs

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