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Commands tagged archive

Terminal - Commands tagged archive - 11 results

rsync -avzhP <[[user@]host1:]directory1> <[[user@]host2:]directory2>

2013-04-27 03:14:23

User: funkjedi

Functions: rsync

Tags: backup rsync archive

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Backup entire directory using rsync

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for ARG in * ; do sudo -u USER 7z x -o"$(echo $ARG|sed 's/$.*$\..*/\1/')" "$ARG" ; done

2012-12-31 19:47:24

User: n158

Functions: sudo

Tags: sed archive 7z folder for loop

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Extract all archives from current folder, each archive in its own folder.

Magic line will extract almost all possible archives from current folder in its own folders. Don't forget to change USER name in sudo command. sed is used to create names for folders from archive names w/o extension. You can test sed expression, used in this command:

arg='war.lan.net' ; x=$(echo $arg|sed 's/$.*$\..*/\1/') ; echo $x

If some archives can't be extracted, install packages:

apt-get install p7zip-full p7zip-rar

Hope this will save a lot of your time. Enjoy.

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dvdisaster -vr --defective-dump . --internal-rereads 5 --raw-mode 20 --read-attempts 1-23 --read-raw --speed-warning 12 --adaptive-read --auto-suffix --read-medium 2 && dvdisaster -vc -mRS02 --raw-mode 20 --read-raw --auto-suffix

2012-07-19 03:01:00

User: brubaker

Tags: backup recovery restore cd iso dvd archive dvdisaster rescue data ecc Reed-Solomon error correction

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Reads a CD/DVD and creates an dvdisaster iso image with the advanced RS02 method.

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als some.jar

2012-07-11 22:54:54

User: tebeka

Tags: extract tar gzip compression archive bzip2

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View any archive

Part of the "atool" package.

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find . -path ".*/cur/*" -type f ! -newermt "1 week ago" -delete

2012-03-05 15:48:21

User: evolix

Functions: find

Tags: find delete mail archive Maildir old files

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Delete/Archive easily old mails using find.

This can be used to delete or archive old mails. In fact, for archiving its a bit different, you need to archive mails with any tools (e.g archivemail), and then deleting (if you want!).

Here we use -path ".*/cur/*" to avoid files limit in bash globbing and to search in any inbox (e.g .mymail .spam .whatever).

! -newermt "1 week ago" can be read: All files which is older than "1 week ago", adapt it in consequence.

makeself <archive_dir> <file_name> <label>

2012-01-10 18:08:50

User: totti

Tags: archive package

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self-extractable archives

Used by virtualbox and others to create '.run' file.

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split -b4m file.tgz file.tgz. ; for i in file.tgz.*; do SUBJ="Backup Archive"; MSG="Archive File Attached"; echo $MSG | mutt -a $i -s $SUBJ YourEmail@(E)mail.com

2010-03-20 16:49:19

User: tboulay

Functions: echo split

Tags: backup email split archive mutt

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Split a file into equal size chunks and archive to (e)mail account.

This is just a little snippit to split a large file into smaller chunks (4mb in this example) and then send the chunks off to (e)mail for archival using mutt.

I usually encrypt the file before splitting it using openssl:

openssl des3 -salt -k <password> -in file.tgz -out file.tgz.des3

To restore, simply save attachments and rejoin them using:

cat file.tgz.* > output_name.tgz

and if encrypted, decrypt using:

openssl des3 -d -salt -k <password> -in file.tgz.des3 -out file.tgz

edit: (changed "g" to "e" for political correctness)

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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 -`

for f in *;do case "$(echo $f|sed "s/.*\.$[a-z\.]*$/\1/g")" in zip)unzip -qqo $f&&rm $f;;tar.gz|tar.bz2)tar xf $f&&rm $f;;rar)unrar e -o+ -r -y $f&&rm $f;;7z)7z e -qqo $f;;esac;done

2009-08-17 03:50:50

User: matthewbauer

Tags: archive unarchive folder

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Unarchive entire folder

This will unarchive the entire working directory. Good for torrents (I don't know why they put each file into a seperate archive).

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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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