Top "Tar" questions

Is there a simple shell command/script that supports excluding certain files/folders from being archived? I have a directory …

I typically do: tar -czvf my_directory.tar.gz my_directory What if I just want to include everything (including …

I have an archive *.tar.gz How can I uncompress this in a destination directory?

I want to extract an archive named filename.tar.gz. Using tar -xzvf filename.tar.gz doesn't extract the file. …

I try to tar.gz a directory and use tar -czf workspace.tar.gz * The resulting tar includes .svn directories …

I have the following command in the part of a backup shell script: tar -cjf site1.bz2 /var/www/site1/ …

I have a /public_html/ folder, in that folder there's a /tmp/ folder that has like 70gb of files I …

I have found the question How to determine if data is valid tar file without a file?, but I was …

I normally compress using tar zcvf and decompress using tar zxvf (using gzip due to habit). I've recently gotten a …

I have a bash script that creates a tar.gz and encrypts then sends to drive. However I cannot open …