Top "Tar" questions

archiving (ubuntu tar) hidden directories

tar on a directory mydir will archive hidden files and hidden subdirectories, but tar from within mydir with a * wildcard …

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tar exclude single files/directories, not patterns

I'm using tar to make daily backups of a server and want to avoid backup of /proc and /sys system …

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PHP Untar-gz without exec()?

How would I untar-gz a file in php without the use of exec('tar') or any other commands, using pure …

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Rename Directory Name Before tar Happens

I have a directory e.g. /var/tmp/my-dir/ that I frequently compress with the following command: $ cd /var/tmp/ $ …

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tar/gzip excluding certain files

I have a directory with many sub-directories. In some of those sub-directories I have files with *.asc extension and some …

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More efficient way to find & tar millions of files

I've got a job running on my server at the command line prompt for a two days now: find data/ …

bash find tar

How do you Tar an svn directory and filter out all the .svn files?

I'm trying to create a tar file for deployment of some code but I dont want all the .svn files …

svn filter tar

Use Maven assembly plugin to set Linux file permissions even when run on other platforms?

Similar question: Can Ant's tar task set a Linux file permission even when the task is used on other platforms? …

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Postgres Tutorial: pg_restore: [archiver] input file does not appear to be a valid archive

I'm working through the Postgres DVD tutorial and am running into issues importing their sample database. Running pg_restore -U …

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PaxHeaders in tarball

I'm doing a tar like in C, and I've got a problem. I just want to archive and unarchive files …

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