Commands using tar (226)
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Find (by regular expression) and compress (xzip) catalogs then remove source catalogs
0find . -type d |awk '$1 ~ /[0-9]/ {print $0}' |xargs -P 4 -I NAME tar --remove-files -vcJf NAME.tar.xz NAME -
untar in place with out creating a temporary file
0ssh user@host "tar -zcf - /path/to/dir" | tar -xvz -
I use screenflow to create and edit videos. The default storage for a single video is a folder. If I want to move that someplace, it's easier to zip up the folder and send it. If I'm making a series of short videos, I might have 10 folders. This will go through and make a single bz3 file for EACH folder.
0for f in *screenflow ; do tar cvf "$f.tar.bz2" "$f"; done -
This is a little bash script that will take all files following the *gz pattern in the directory and apply the tar -zxvf command to them.
-1for i in *.tar.gz *.tgz; do tar -zxvf $i; done -
Add z to the flags to enable compression.
-1tar cf - . | (cd /new/dir; tar xvf -) -
gpg's compression is as suitable as gzip's however your backups can now be encrypted. to extract use:
gpg < folder.tpg | tar -xf --1tar -cf - folder/ | gpg -c > folder.tpg -
-1tar -C <source> -cf - . | tar -C <destination> -xf -
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Tar - Compress by excluding folders Show Sample Output
-1tar -cvf /path/dir.tar /path/dir* --exclude "/path/dir/name" --exclude "/path/dir/opt" -
Combines a few repetitive tasks when compiling source code. Especially useful when a hypen in a file-name breaks tab completion. 1.) wget source.tar.gz 2.) tar xzvf source.tar.gz 3.) cd source 4.) ls From there you can run ./configure, make and etc. Show Sample Output
-1wtzc () { wget "$@"; foo=`echo "$@" | sed 's:.*/::'`; tar xzvf $foo; blah=`echo $foo | sed 's:,*/::'`; bar=`echo $blah | sed -e 's/\(.*\)\..*/\1/' -e 's/\(.*\)\..*/\1/'`; cd $bar; ls; } -
You don't need to create an intermediate file, just pipe the output directly to tar command and use stin as file (put a dash after the f flag).
-1cat 1.tar.gz 2.tar.gz | tar zxvif - -
Using the COPYFILE_DISABLE=true environment variable you can prevent tar from adding any ._-files to your .tar-file on Mac OS X.
-1COPYFILE_DISABLE=true tar cvf newTarFile.tar Directory/ -
-1pbzip2 -dck <bz2file> | tar xvf -
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The J option is a recent addition to GNU tar. The xz compression utility is required as well.
-1tar cfJ tarfile.tar.xz pathnames -
`tar xfzO` extracts to STDOUT which got redirected directly to mysql. Really helpful, when your hard drive can't fit two copies of non-compressed database :)
-1tar xfzO <backup_name>.tar.gz | mysql -u root <database_name> -
Sometimes you might need to have two copies of data that is in tar. You might unpack, and then copy, but if IO is slow, you might lower it by automatically writing it twice (or more times)
-1mkdir copy{1,2}; gzip -dc file.tar.gz | tee >( tar x -C copy1/ ) | tar x -C copy2/ -
Simple Compressed Backup of the /etc Linux compatible
-1tar jcpf /home/[usuario]/etc-$(hostname)-backup-$(date +%Y%m%d-%H%M%S).tar.bz2 /etc -
should do the same as command #12875, just shorter.
-1tar -cf "../${PWD##*/}.tar" . -
backup your files in tar archive + timestamp of backup Show Sample Output
-1tar -cvf bind9-config-`date +%s`.tar * -
This is useful for sending data between 2 computers that you have shell access to. Uses tar compression during transfer. Files are compressed & uncompressed automatically. Note the trailing dash on the listening side that makes netcat listen to stdin for data. on the listening side:
sudo nc -lp 2022 | sudo tar -xvf -explanation: open netcat to -l listen on -p port 2022, take the data stream and pipe to tar -x extract, -v verbose, -f using file filename - means "stdin" on the sending side:tar -cvzf - ./*| nc -w 3 name_of_listening_host 2022explanation: compress all files in current dir using tar -c create, -v verbose, -f using file, - filename - here means "stdout" because we're tar -c instead of tar -x, -w3 wait 3 seconds on stream termination and then end the connection to the listening host name_of_listening_host, on port 2022-2on the listening side: sudo nc -lp 2022 | sudo tar -xvf - and on the sending side: tar -cvzf - ./*| nc -w 3 name_of_listening_host 2022 -
Create a single tar.gz archive I know it's a very basic one, but it's one I keep forgetting. Show Sample Output
-2tar -pczf archive_name.tar.gz /path/to/dir/or/file -
Using tape archive create a tar file in Stdout (-) and pipe that into a compound command to extract the tar file from Stdin at the destination. This similar to "Copy via tar pipe ...", but copies across file systems boundaries. I prefer to use cp -pr for copying within the same file system. Show Sample Output
-2tar cpof - src |( cd des; tar xpof -) -
This script will list all the files in the tarballs present on any folder or subfolder of the provided path. The while loop is for echoing the file name of the tarball before listing the files, so the tarball can be identified
-2find <path> -name "*.tgz" -or -name "*.tar.gz" | while read file; do echo "$file: "; tar -tzf $file; done -
The magic is performed by the parameter -t Show Sample Output
-2for F in $(find ./ -name "*.tgz") ; do tar -tvzf $F ; done -
This may seem like a long command, but it is great for making sure all file permissions are kept in tact. What it is doing is streaming the files in a sub-shell and then untarring them in the target directory. Please note that the -z command should not be used for local files and no perfomance increase will be visible as overhead processing (CPU) will be evident, and will slow down the copy. You also may keep simple with, but you don't have the progress info:
cp -rpf /some/directory /other/pathShow Sample Output-2dir='path to file'; tar cpf - "$dir" | pv -s $(du -sb "$dir" | awk '{print $1}') | tar xpf - -C /other/path -
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.
-2tar -tf <file.tar.gz> | parallel rm - ‹ First < 6 7 8 9 10 >
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