Top "Tar" questions

How to fix 'tar: Failed to set default locale' error?

I'm trying to install a package into R, something I swore on my blood never to do, yet here I …

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How to archive and extract a .tar.gz file

A simple question. On x86 Solaris 10, I tried the following to compress a folder(Data) of files. tar -cvf /path/…

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What's a good tar utility for Windows?

I use Cygwin regularly, but I have a need these days to extract tar.gz and tar.bz2 files on …

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How can I untar a tar.bz file in unix?

I've found tons of pages saying how to untar tar.bz2 files, but how would one untar a tar.bz …

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How do I extract files without folder structure using tar

I have a tar.gz-file with the following structure: folder1/img.gif folder2/img2.gif folder3/img3.gif I want …

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reading tar file contents without untarring it, in python script

I have a tar file which has number of files within it. I need to write a python script which …

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Listing the content of a tar file or a directory only down to some level

I wonder how to list the content of a tar file only down to some level? I understand tar tvf …

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How to tar a set of files?

I am new to the tar command. I have many files in a directory: 1_1_1.txt, 1_1_2.txt, 2_1_1.txt, 2_1_2.txt.. I know …

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How can I decompress an archive file having tar.zst?

I do not know how I can decompress a file having tar.zst extension and even though I did look …

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How do I exclude absolute paths for tar?

I am running a PHP script that gets me the absolute paths of files I want to tar up. This …

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