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Terminal - Commands using tar - 204 results

GZIP="--rsyncable" tar -czf something.tgz /something

2012-04-24 19:06:56

User: dash

Functions: tar

Tags: tar rsync gzip

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Create rsyncable tar archives with gzip compression

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tar zcvf /path/to/your-`date +%Y-%m-%d`.tar.bz2 ./your/directory --exclude ./you/dont/want/to/include

2012-04-10 01:28:36

User: liushuililuo

Functions: tar

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backup your file with tar and exclude the file or directory which you don't want

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ssh user@remote "cat /path/to/archive.tgz" | tar zxvf -

2012-04-04 13:05:23

User: maxmanders

Functions: ssh tar

Tags: ssh tar.gz

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Extract remote gzip tarball

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find /protocollo/paflow -type f -mtime +5 | xargs tar -cvf /var/dump-protocollo/`date '+%d%m%Y'_archive.tar`

2012-02-03 16:24:08

User: 0disse0

Functions: find tar xargs

Tags: backup find Zope paflow

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Archive all files that have not been modified in the last days

Finally, we can make the file "unchangeable"

sudo chattr +i

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tmpfs(){ cd /;for i in $@;do tar czvf /tmp/$i $i;mount -t tmpfs tmpfs /$i;tar xvzf /tmp/$i;cd ~ ;}# usage: tmpfs etc var

2011-12-30 23:27:56

User: argv

Functions: cd mount tar

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mount a folder tmpfs

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tar czf git_mods_circa_dec23.tgz --files-from <(git ls-files -m)

2011-12-23 15:31:21

User: jemptymethod

Functions: tar

Tags: git tar process substitution

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Create tarball of files modified in git

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tar -xaf archive.tar.gz --strip-components=1

2011-11-29 07:38:19

User: sirex

Functions: tar

Tags: tar strip

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Extract tar content without leading parent directory

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

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tar xfz filename.tar.gz -C PathToDirectory

2011-11-17 12:43:56

User: Dhinesh

Functions: tar

Tags: tar.gz

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Redirect tar extract to another directory

The command extracting the tar contents into particular directory ...

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while true; do nc -l 7000 | tar -xvf -; done

2011-10-26 23:43:51

User: anhpht

Functions: tar

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Create a file server, listening in port 7000

At client side:

tar c myfile | nc localhost 7000 ##Send file myfile to server

tar c mydir | nc localhost 7000 ## Send directory mydir to server

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tar -cf - /etc | tar -xf - -C </destination/folder>

2011-10-06 19:31:58

User: vtrone

Functions: tar

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Real full backup copy of /etc folder

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tar cvf - /src | ( cd /dest ; tar xvf - )

2011-09-22 15:35:24

User: a8ksh4

Functions: cd tar

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Tar Pipe

This is how I've done it in the past

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(cd src && tar -cf - .) | (cd dest && tar -xpf -)

2011-09-22 11:30:57

User: Cowboy

Functions: cd tar

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Tar Pipe

Simple tar pipe to be used to copy directories while including hidden files and maintaining file permissions

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find ./ -iname "*.dmp" -maxdepth 0 -type f -exec tar czvf {}.tar.gz --remove-files {} \; \;

2011-09-07 08:36:29

User: evilinside

Functions: find tar

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Archive tar.gz archives all files (with extension filter) individually from an location

This command will :

-Archive all *.dmp files individually (one file per archive) from current directory .

-Delete original file after has been compressed.

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svn st -q | cut -c 2- | tr -d ' ' | xargs tar -czvf ../backup.tgz

2011-08-31 10:30:29

User: titus

Functions: cut tar tr xargs

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archive all files containing local changes (svn)

This works more reliable for me ("cut -c 8-" had one more space, so it did not work)

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find . -type d|xargs tar rf ~/dirstructure.tar --no-recursion

2011-08-03 16:21:10

User: gdevarajan

Functions: find tar xargs

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Create a tar of directory structure only

The original suggestion did not work for me, when operating on folders located on an external mount (ie other than the root device) in Ubuntu. A variation using xargs does the trick.

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ssh -C USER@HOST tar -c --exclude /proc --exclude /sys / | tar -x

2011-07-20 15:45:38

User: strzel_a

Functions: ssh tar

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Backup entire system through SSH

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cd / ; tar -cvpzf backup.tar.gz --exclude=/backup.tar.gz --exclude=/proc --exclude=/lost+found --exclude=/sys --exclude=/mnt --exclude=/media --exclude=/dev /

2011-07-20 15:44:07

User: strzel_a

Functions: cd tar

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Backup entire system

Backup your entire system on a tar ball file format.

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tar cf - . |(cd /targetdir; tar xvf -)

2011-07-13 05:03:58

User: jamomu

Functions: cd tar

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tar's and moves all contents of current directory to target dir

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for i in *.tar.gz; do tar -x -v -z -f $i && rm -v $i; done

2011-06-25 20:40:44

User: Nichlas

Functions: rm tar

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Decompress all .tar.gz files and remove the compressed .tar.gz

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for i in "*.txt"; do tar -c -v -z -f $i.tar.gz "$i" && rm -v "$i"; done

2011-06-25 20:39:06

User: Nichlas

Functions: rm tar

Tags: Batch Utilities compress tar.gz

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Compress all .txt files to .txt.ta.gz and remove the original .txt

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tar -caf some_dir.tar.xz some_dir

2011-06-09 19:00:06

User: thetrivialstuff

Functions: tar

Tags: tar gzip tar.gz bzip2 tar.bz2 tar.xz xz

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have tar decide compression based on filename

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 :)

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tar jcpf /home/[usuario]/etc-$(hostname)-backup-$(date +%Y%m%d-%H%M%S).tar.bz2 /etc

2011-04-29 22:53:11

User: mack

Functions: date tar

Tags: backup tar /etc tar.bz2

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Compressed Backup of the /etc

Simple Compressed Backup of the /etc

Linux compatible

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mkdir copy{1,2}; gzip -dc file.tar.gz | tee >( tar x -C copy1/ ) | tar x -C copy2/

2011-04-14 17:02:05

User: depesz

Functions: gzip mkdir tar tee

Tags: bash tee tar

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Extract 2 copies of .tar.gz content

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)

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svn diff -r 1792:HEAD --summarize | awk '{if ($1 != "D") print $2}'| xargs -I {} tar rf incremental_release.tar {}

2011-04-05 15:00:49

User: windfold

Functions: awk diff tar xargs

Tags: bash svn awk xargs tar

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Create a tar of modified/added files since revision 1792.

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.

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tar -c bins/ | gzip -9 | openssl enc -base64

2011-02-24 22:15:23

User: mweed

Functions: gzip tar

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copy paste multiple binary files

Useful when you have multiple files or binary files that you need to transfer to a different host and scp or the like is unavailable.

To unpack on the destination host copy paste output using the opposite order:

openssl enc -d -base64 | gunzip | tar -x

Terminate openssl input using ^d

Note: gzip is outside of tar because using -z in tar produces lots of extra padding.

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