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archive all files containing local changes (svn)

xargs deals badly with special characters (such as space, ' and "). In this case if you have a file called '12" record'. Parallel https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/parallel/ does not have this problem. Both solutions work bad if the number of files is more than the allowed line length of the shell.
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svn st | cut -c 9- | parallel -X tar -czvf ../backup.tgz

unixmonkey8046 · 2010-01-28 11:43:16 3
Individually compress each file in a directory

Compresses each file individually, creating a $fileneame.tar.gz and removes the uncompressed version, usefull if you have lots of files and don't want 1 huge archive containing them all. you could replace ls with ls *.pdf to just perform the action on pdfs for example.
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ls | while read filename; do tar -czvf "$filename".tar.gz "$filename"; rm "$filename"; done

Thingymebob · 2010-03-29 08:10:38 8
Compress all .txt files to .txt.ta.gz and remove the original .txt
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for i in "*.txt"; do tar -c -v -z -f $i.tar.gz "$i" && rm -v "$i"; done

Nichlas · 2011-06-25 20:39:06 5
Real full backup copy of /etc folder
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tar -cf - /etc | tar -xf - -C </destination/folder>

vtrone · 2011-10-06 19:31:58 3
Unpack .tgz File On Linux

tar command options: -z : Uncompress the resulting archive with gzip command. -x : Extract to disk from the archive. -v : Produce verbose output i.e. show progress and file names while extracting files. -f backup.tgz : Read the archive from the specified file called backup.tgz. -C /tmp/data : Unpack/extract files in /tmp/data instead of the default current directory.
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tar zxvf fileNameHere.tgz

Jonas_E · 2014-01-28 10:33:51 10
Simple tar

Simple commant to tar a path
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tar -cvzf file.tar.gz path

x3mboy · 2022-09-17 16:40:09 850
backup the old files

due to bug can not comment
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tar -zcps <dir> -X <(find <dir> -type f -mtime -<days>) |ssh user@backuphost tar -xzpsC /data/bkup

zb · 2009-02-12 22:31:58 9
tar per directory

Very simple and useful, you need to change the word "directory" for your directory
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cd <YOUR_DIRECTORY>; for i in `ls ./`; do tar czvf "$i".tar.gz "$i" ; done

ElAlecs · 2009-06-11 18:33:27 18
Move files around local filesystem with tar without wasting space using an intermediate tarball.
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tar -C <source_dir> -cf . | tar -C <dest_dir> -xf -

Tekhne · 2009-07-08 22:20:45 5
Duplicate a directory tree using tar and pipes
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(cd /source/dir ; tar cvf - .)|(cd /dest/dir ; tar xvpf -)

tkunz · 2009-07-14 20:03:23 3
backup and remove files with access time older than 5 days.

This deals nicely with files having special characters in the file name (space ' or "). Parallel is from https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/parallel/
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tar -zcvpf backup_`date +"%Y%m%d_%H%M%S"`.tar.gz `find <target> -atime +5 -type f` 2> /dev/null | parallel -X rm -f

unixmonkey8046 · 2010-01-28 12:41:41 3
tar - extract only one file

if I need get olnly script.sh from "folder/script.sh" Show Sample Output
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```
script.sh
```
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tar zxvf package.tar.gz --strip 1

voyeg3r · 2010-05-18 21:01:23 5
Tar Pipe

This is how I've done it in the past
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tar cvf - /src | ( cd /dest ; tar xvf - )

a8ksh4 · 2011-09-22 15:35:24 4
mount a folder tmpfs
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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

argv · 2011-12-30 23:27:56 3
checksum a directory / files

Doesn't create a file Make sure to list the files / directories in the same order every time.
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tar -cf - file1 dir1/ dir2/ | md5sum

snipertyler · 2014-04-17 14:33:44 10
Remove all files previously extracted from a tar(.gz) file.

Remove annoying improperly packaged files that untar into the incorrect directory. Example, When you untar and it extracts hundreds of files into the current directory.... bleh.
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for i in $(tar -tf <file.tar.gz>); do rm $i; done;

din7 · 2009-07-06 19:57:23 12
Move files around local filesystem with tar without wasting space using an intermediate tarball.
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tar -C <source_dir> -cf . | tar -C <dest_dir> -xf

Tekhne · 2009-07-08 22:19:04 6
Unzip multi-part zip archive

Simplicity tends to win out on commandlinefu.com Also, why type multiple filenames when range operators work too. Saves finger abuse and time and reduces the chances for mistakes.
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tar -xfv archive.zip

vxbinaca · 2010-10-14 08:19:16 4
Tar a subversion working copy...without all those hidden directories!
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tar --exclude='.svn' -c -f /path/to/file.tar /path/to/directory

unixmonkey3142 · 2009-04-08 13:25:32 8
Wordpress - download latest, extract, and rename config file.
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alias wordpress='mkdir wordpress && cd wordpress && wget http://wordpress.org/latest.tar.gz && tar -xvzf latest.tar.gz && mv wordpress/* . && rm -rf latest.tar.gz wordpress && cp wp-config-sample.php wp-config.php'

ahabman · 2009-02-26 03:23:18 6
Install NMAP 5.0 ,Short and sweet command to do it

Just copy and paste the code in your terminal. Note : sudo apt-get for debian versions , change as per your requirement . Source : www.h3manth.com
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sudo wget -c "http://nmap.org/dist/nmap-5.00.tar.bz2" && bzip2 -cd nmap-5.00.tar.bz2 | tar xvf - && cd nmap-5.00 && ./configure && make && sudo make install

hemanth · 2009-07-26 11:36:53 7
Create a tar.gz in a single command

Where foodir is the directory you want to zip up.
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tar cvf - foodir | gzip > foo.tar.gz

sharfah · 2009-05-19 11:33:51 14
create one md5 for all files in folder

seen on stackoverflow http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1657232/how-can-i-calculate-an-md5-checksum-of-a-directory Show Sample Output
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```
a39ff7fb6f6c5850471cc92154954f88
```
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tar c folderName | md5

Whitefox · 2015-05-15 13:08:33 12
ls -lR with a full path

I find the ouput of ls -lR to be un-satisfying (why is the path data up there?) and find syntax to be awkward. Running 'du -a' means you will have likely to trim-off filesize data before feeding filenames to the next step in the pipe.
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tar -cvf /dev/null . | while read i; do ls -l $i; done

lbonanomi · 2009-09-16 16:59:15 8
Duplicate a directory tree using tar and pipes

the f is for file and - stdout, This way little shorter. I Like copy-directory function It does the job but looks like SH**, and this doesn't understand folders with whitespaces and can only handle full path, but otherwise fine, function copy-directory () { ; FrDir="$(echo $1 | sed 's:/: :g' | awk '/ / {print $NF}')" ; SiZe="$(du -sb $1 | awk '{print $1}')" ; (cd $1 ; cd .. ; tar c $FrDir/ )|pv -s $SiZe|(cd $2 ; tar x ) ; } Show Sample Output
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```
copy-directory /media/cdrom /mnt/backup/
 104MB 0:00:06 [7.43MB/s] [============>                                                      ]  9% ETA 0:00:58
```
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(cd /source/dir ; tar cv .)|(cd /dest/dir ; tar xv)

marssi · 2009-07-19 10:31:13 12
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put an unpacked .deb package back together

If any changes have been made to the package while it was unpacked (ie, conffiles files in /etc modi‐fied), the new package will inherit the changes. This way you can make it easy to copy packages from one computer to another, or to recreate packages that are installed on your system, but no longer available elsewhere. Note: dpkg-repack will place the created package in the current directory.

Recursively touch all files and subdirectories

find largest file in /var

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e.g. $ manswitch grep -o This will take you to the relevant part of the man page, so you can see the description of the switch underneath.

list files recursively by size

va - alias for editing aliases

When setting up a new aliases file, or having creating a new file.. About every time after editing an aliases file, I source it. This alias makes editing alias a bit easier and they are useful right away. Note if the source failed, it will not echo "aliases sourced". Sub in vi for your favorite editor, or alter for ksh, sh, etc.

back ssh from firewalled hosts

host B (you) redirects a modem port (62220) to his local ssh. host A is a remote machine (the ones that issues the ssh cmd). once connected port 5497 is in listening mode on host B. host B just do a ssh 127.0.0.1 -p 5497 -l user and reaches the remote host'ssh. This can be used also for vnc and so on.

Recursively list all of the files in a directory, group them by extension and calculate the average of the file sizes in each group

Here's an annotated version of the command, using full-names instead of aliases. It is exactly equivalent to the short-hand version. # Recursively list all the files in the current directory. Get-ChildItem -Recurse | # Filter out the sub-directories themselves. Where-Object { return -not $_.PsIsContainer; } | # Group the resulting files by their extensions. Group-Object Extension | # Pluck the Name and Count properties of each group and define # a custom expression that calculates the average of the sizes # of the files in that group. # The back-tick is a line-continuation character. Select-Object ` Name, Count, @{ Name = 'Average'; Expression = { # Average the Length (sizes) of the files in the current group. return ($_.Group | Measure-Object -Average Length).Average; } } | # Format the results in a tabular view, automatically adjusted to # widths of the values in the columns. Format-Table -AutoSize ` @{ # Rename the Name property to something more sensible. Name = 'Extension'; Expression = { return $_.Name; } }, Count, @{ # Format the Average property to display KB instead of bytes # and use a formatting string to show it rounded to two decimals. Name = 'Average Size (KB)'; # The "1KB" is a built-in constant which is equal to 1024. Expression = { return $_.Average / 1KB }; FormatString = '{0:N2}' }

Copy data using gtar

It copies the entire current working directory to the destination directory with compression enabled.

Bash scripts encryption and passphrase-protection

This function will encrypt a bash script and will only execute it after providing the passphrase. Requires mcrypt to be installed on the system.

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