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tar copy

Just a copy of a big dir when you wan't things like ownership and date etc etc to be untouched. Note: Updated with the ideas from "mpb".
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tar cf - dir_to_cp/ | (cd path_to_put/ && tar xvf -)

jsiei97 · 2009-08-04 16:51:31 8
Copy via tar pipe while preserving file permissions (run this command as root!)

It's the same like 'cp -p' if available. It's faster over networks than scp. If you have to copy gigs of data you could also use netcat and the tar -z option in conjunction -- on the receiving end do: # nc -l 7000 | tar -xzvpf - ...and on the sending end do: # tar -czf - * | nc otherhost 7000
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tar -C /oldirectory -cvpf - . | tar -C /newdirector -xvf -

Cowboy · 2009-08-22 20:05:49 5
Creat a tar file for backup info

Use tar command for a backup info with a date of creation Show Sample Output
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```
tar --create --file /path/$HOSTNAME-etc-$(date -I).tar.gz --atime-preserve -p -P --same-owner -z /etc/
```
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tar --create --file /path/$HOSTNAME-my_name_file-$(date -I).tar.gz --atime-preserve -p -P --same-owner -z /path/

Odin_sv · 2009-09-07 04:52:12 4
create tar archive of files in a directory and its sub-directories

creates a compressed tar archive of files in /path/foo and writes to a timestamped filename in /path.
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tar czf /path/archive_of_foo.`date -I`.tgz /path/foo

Edward_Virtually · 2009-09-07 05:45:33 6
tar directory and compress it with showing progress and Disk IO limits

tar directory and compress it with showing progress and Disk IO limits. Pipe Viewer can be used to view the progress of the task, Besides, he can limit the disk IO, especially useful for running Servers. Show Sample Output
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```
7.85GB 0:20:27 [6.54MB/s] [=========================================================================>] 100%
```
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tar pcf - home | pv -s $(du -sb home | awk '{print $1}') --rate-limit 500k | gzip > /mnt/c/home.tar.gz

Sail · 2010-04-02 15:29:03 6
Tar files matching a certain wildcard

This is a shortcut to tar up all files matching a wildcard. Tar doesn't have the --include (apparently).
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tar -czf ../header.tar.gz $(find . -name *.h)

unixmonkey10524 · 2010-06-27 23:44:48 4
Backup trought SSH
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tar cvzf - /wwwdata | ssh root@IP "dd of=/backup/wwwdata.tar.gz"

espritlibre · 2010-08-04 15:41:36 4
Extract multiple tar files at once in zsh

tar doesn't support wildcard for unpacking (so you can't use tar -xf *.tar) and it's shorter and simpler than for i in *.tar;do tar -xf $i;done (or even 'for i in *.tar;tar -xf $i' in case of zsh) -i says tar not to stop after first file (EOF)
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tar -xi < *.tar

zolden · 2010-08-06 06:15:15 4
tar+pbzip2 a dir
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tar -c directory_to_compress/ | pbzip2 -vc > myfile.tar.bz2

maarten · 2010-08-17 20:29:13 6
Download and install the newest dropbox beta
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wget http://forums.dropbox.com && wget $(cat index.html|grep "Latest Forum Build"|cut -d"\"" -f2) && wget $(cat topic.php*|grep "Linux x86:"|cut -d"\"" -f2|sort -r|head -n1) && rm -rf ~/.dropbox* && rm index.html *.php* && tar zxvf dropbox-*.tar.gz -C ~/

kjell81d · 2010-08-28 09:23:42 3
tar via network
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tar cfX - exclude_opt_weblogic . | ssh tmp-esxsb044 "cd /opt/weblogic ; tar xf -"

xmonkey · 2010-10-27 20:04:17 3
Create a tar file with the current date in the name.

Same, but count of signs is little less :) .
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tar cfz backup-`date +%F`.tgz somedirs

yababay · 2010-11-17 23:40:18 4
strip non-constant number of directories from tar archive while decompressing

If you want to decompress the files from an archive to current directory by stripping all directory paths, use --transform option to strip path information. Unfortunately, --strip-components option is good if the target files have same and constant depth of folders. The idea was taken from http://www.unix.com/solaris/145941-how-extract-files-tar-file-without-creating-directories.html Show Sample Output
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```
$ tar tzvf test-archive.tar.gz
./path/to/first/file/a.txt
./another/path/to/files/to/be/archived/b.txt
./another/path/to/files/to/be/archived/c.txt

$ tar --transform 's#.*/$[^/]*$$#\1#' -xzvf test-archive.tar.gz
$ ls
a.txt
b.txt
c.txt
test-archive.tar.gz
```
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tar --transform 's#.*/$[^/]*$$#\1#' -xzvf test-archive.tar.gz

alperyilmaz · 2010-11-29 23:16:57 5
Run netcat to server files of current folder
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Server side: while true; do tar cvzf - ./* | nc -l 2000; done, client side: nc localhost 2000 | tar xvzf -

anhpht · 2010-12-14 10:12:13 4
Find files in multiple TAR files

A quick find command to identify all TAR files in a given path, extract a list of files contained within the tar, then search for a given string in the filelist. Returns to the user as a list of TAR files found (enclosed in []) followed by any matching files that exist in that archive. TAR can easily be swapped for JAR if required. Show Sample Output
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```
[andrew.taylor@localhost ~]$ find . -type f -name "*.tar" -printf [%f]\\n -exec tar -tf {} \; | grep -iE "[\[]|configuration"
[tar2.tar]
Platform_Configuration_Guide.pdf
Product_Management_Configuration_Guide.pdf
[tar1.tar]
WMS_Configuration_Guide.pdf
[tar3.tar]
Reverse_Logistics_Configuration_Guide.pdf
```
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find . -type f -name "*.tar" -printf [%f]\\n -exec tar -tf {} \; | grep -iE "[\[]|<filename>"

andrewtayloruk · 2011-01-06 13:01:38 5

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. Show Sample Output

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

mweed · 2011-02-24 22:15:23 5

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

gdevarajan · 2011-08-03 16:21:10 4
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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svn st -q | cut -c 2- | tr -d ' ' | xargs tar -czvf ../backup.tgz

titus · 2011-08-31 10:30:29 3
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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find /protocollo/paflow -type f -mtime +5 | xargs tar -cvf /var/dump-protocollo/`date '+%d%m%Y'_archive.tar`

0disse0 · 2012-02-03 16:24:08 3
Create tar over SSH

Really useful when out of space in your current machine. You can ran this also with cat for example: tar zcvf - /folder/ | ssh root@192.168.0.1 "cat > /dest/folder/file.tar.gz" Or even run other command's: tcpdump | ssh root@10.0.0.1 "cat > /tmp/tcpdump.log"
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tar cvzf - /folder/ | ssh root@192.168.0.1 "dd of=/dest/folder/file.tar.gz"

kruspemsv · 2012-07-13 17:54:51 3
Get backup from remote host, then expand in current directory using tar
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ssh -l username server.tdl "tar -czf - /home/username/public_html" | tar -xzf -

dzup · 2012-07-24 21:06:49 4
Extract .tar.lzma archive
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tar --lzma -xvf /path/to/archive

lainme · 2012-10-15 10:18:24 5
Archive all folders in a directory into their own tar.bz2 file

Remove the "echo" to actually archive. Many similar commands are found on commandlinefu but I end up needing this very specific one from time to time. To extract any of them, use the standard tar.bz2 extract command: tar xvjf folder1.tar.bz2 Show Sample Output
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```
tar -cjf folder1 folder1.tar.bz2
tar -cjf folder2 folder2.tar.bz2
tar -cjf folder3 folder3.tar.bz2
```
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for i in */; do echo tar -cjf "${i%/}.tar.bz2" "$i"; done

sudopeople · 2013-08-20 22:13:28 6
IBM AIX: Extract a .tar.gz archive in one shot

This command is for UNIX OSes that have plain vanilla System V UNIX commands instead of their more functional GNU counterparts, such as IBM AIX.
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gzip -cd gzippedarchive.tar.gz | tar -xf -

RAKK · 2013-09-18 17:41:25 50
tar the current directory wihtout the absolute path

tars the current directory (and its children) in an archive of the same name (plus ".tar" :)) in the parent directory without the absolute path, so that when the archive is extracted, only the current directory name is created for the path. Assumes bash/zsh.
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ORIGDIR=${PWD##*/}; PARENT=`dirname $PWD`; tar -C $PARENT -cf ../${ORIGDIR}.tar $ORIGDIR

vwal · 2013-11-04 18:44:34 14
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Replace Solaris vmstat numbers with human readable format

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Submit command & rewrite orginal command

Similar to entering a command, but will not erase the command from the command line. Basically a shortcut from entering command, then pushing the up arrow key.

kill process by name

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Get the dir listing of an executable without knowing its location

Rename files in batch

Detect illegal access to kernel space, potentially useful for Meltdown detection

Based on capsule8 agent examples, not rigorously tested

Print a row of characters the width of terminal

Unlike other methods that use pipes and exec software like tr or sed or subshells, this is an extremely fast way to print a line and will always be able to detect the terminal width or else defaults to 80. It uses bash builtins for printf and echo and works with printf that supports the non-POSIX `-v` option to store result to var instead of printing to stdout. Here it is in a function that lets you change the line character to use and the length with args, it also supports color escape sequences with the echo -e option. $ function L() { local l=; builtin printf -vl "%${2:-${COLUMNS:-`tput cols 2>&-||echo 80`}}s\n" && echo -e "${l// /${1:-=}}"; } With color: $ L "`tput setaf 3`=" 1. Use printf to store n space chars followed by a newline to an environment variable "l" where n is local environment variable from $COLUMNS if set, else it will use `tput cols` and if that fails it will default to 80. 2. If printf succeeds then echo `$l` that contains the chars, replacing all blank spaces with "-" (can be changed to anything you want). From: http://www.askapache.com/linux/bash_profile-functions-advanced-shell.html http://www.askapache.com/linux/bash-power-prompt.html

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