Top "Tar" questions

Windows command line tar "cannot connect to d: resolve failed" with Chef Knife

Using Windows Command line with cygwin, chef and ruby installed. When trying knife cookbook site install mysql returns the following …

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Python: Extract using tarfile but ignoring directories

If I have a .tar file with a file '/path/to/file.txt', is there a way (in Python) …

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How to extract a single file from a remote archive file?

Given URL of an archive (e.g. a zip file) Full name (including path) of a file inside that archive …

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Python import library from tar.gz?

I am working on a box which I don't have root access. However, there is a folder /share which would …

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what does 'tar --overwrite' actually do (or not do)?

I see that Linux tar has an option --overwrite. But overwriting seems to be the default. Moreover, specifying tar --no-overwrite …

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Extract tar file without creating folder

I want to extract tar file in Unix tar xvf /home/test/group.tar and once extracted got a folder …

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How to determine if data is valid tar file without a file?

My upload form expects a tar file and I want to check whether the uploaded data is valid. The tarfile …

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Compressing a folder with many duplicated files

I have a pretty big folder (~10GB) that contains many duplicated files throughout it's directory tree. Many of these files …

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npm audit Arbitrary File Overwrite

I recently updated my version of angular using ng update and when running npm audit it found 1 high severity vulnerability …

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tar: Failed to open '/dev/sa0' error in freebsd

I have a bash code below under freebsd tar --files-from $files --exclude-from $xfile -zc \ | openssl aes-256-cbc -salt -pass pass:$…

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