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How do I remove CLion-2016.2.3 completely from Ubuntu 16.04 LTS?

I had installed CLion(2016.2.3) IDE from CLion-2016.2.3.tar.gz file. I accidentally deleted the CLion-2016.2.3.tar.gz file and CLion-2016.2.3 …

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bash: /bin/tar: Argument list too long when compressing many files with tar

I am trying compress files from an archive with the command tar -czvf compress_file.tar.gz $(cat file_list.…

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Safely extract zip or tar using Python

I'm trying to extract user-submitted zip and tar files to a directory. The documentation for zipfile's extractall method (similarly with …

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python write string directly to tarfile

Is there a way to write a string directly to a tarfile? From http://docs.python.org/library/tarfile.html …

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Extract a specific folder to specific directory from a tar.gz

I have searched and found how to the two portions of what I want but nothing that would allow you …

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Difference between two .tar.gz file lists on linux

Having two different .tar.gz files: The second .tar.gz is the subset of first .tar.gz. I need a …

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Unix tar: do not preserve full pathnames

When I try to compress files and directories with tar using absolute paths, the absolute path is preserved in the …

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Python packaging: wheels vs tarball (tar.gz)

The advantage of wheels over eggs is clear (see section why not egg? https://pypi.python.org/pypi/wheel). However, …

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Tar command in mac os x adding "hidden" files, why?

I am writing my own tar archiver. All works fine inside my app (even reading tars generated with other tools) …

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How do I pipe a git clone to archive (tar or gzip)

I am trying to make a simple backup script for my remotely hosted git repos. In the script I have …

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