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)

Using the COPYFILE_DISABLE=true environment variable you can prevent tar from adding any ._-files to your .tar-file on Mac OS X.

The following command finds all the files not modified in the last 5 days under /protocollo/paflow directory and creates an archive files under /var/dump-protocollo in the format of ddmmyyyy_archive.tar

This is a shortcut to tar up all files matching a wildcard. Tar doesn't have the --include (apparently).

if I need get olnly script.sh from "folder/script.sh"

You don't need to create an intermediate file, just pipe the output directly to tar command and use stin as file (put a dash after the f flag).

Requires the GNU tar ignore zeros option. http://www.gnu.org/software/tar/manual/html_section/Blocking.html

This is a 'nocd' alternative :)

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.

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.

Here how to recover the remote backup over ssh

Execute it from the source host, where the source files you wish backup resides. With the minus '-' the tar command deliver the compressed output to the standar output and, trough over the ssh session to the remote host. On the other hand the backup host will be receive the stream and read it from the standar input sending it to the /path/to/backup/backupfile.tar.bz2

Create a tarball on the client and send it across the network with netcat on port 1234 where its extracted on the server in the current directory.

Create tarball on stdout which is piped to tar reading from stdin all over ssh

This deals nicely with files having special characters in the file name (space ' or ").

Parallel is from https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/parallel/

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.

xargs deals badly with special characters (such as space, ' and "). To see the problem try this:

touch important_file

touch 'not important_file'

ls not* | xargs rm

Parallel https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/parallel/ does not have this problem.

~$ tar --version

tar (GNU tar) 1.20

This may seem like a long command, but it is great for making sure all file permissions are kept in tact. What it is doing is streaming the files in a sub-shell and then untarring them in the target directory. Please note that the -z command should not be used for local files and no perfomance increase will be visible as overhead processing (CPU) will be evident, and will slow down the copy.

You also may keep simple with, but you don't have the progress info: