Note: Starting with python 2.7.4, this is a non-issue for ZIP archives. Details at the bottom of the answer. This answer focuses on tar archives. To figure out where a path really points to, use os.path.abspath() (but note the caveat about symlinks as path components). If you normalize a path from your zipfile with abspath … Read more
The “good” version is also displaying the same message you’ve just missed it. If you don’t like the behaviour, search for “leading”, in manual. First hit: -P, –absolute-names don’t strip leading “https://stackoverflow.com/”s from file names
Using pv to pipe the file to tar. Firstly, you’ll need to install pv, which on macOS can be done with: brew install pv On Debian or Ubuntu, it can be done with: apt install pv (Thanks @hyperbola!). Pipe the compressed file with pv to the tar command: pv mysql.tar.gz | tar -xz Here’s the … Read more
This page has a list of “magic” file signatures. Grab the ones you need and put them in a dict like below. Then we need a function that matches the dict keys with the start of the file. I’ve written a suggestion, though it can be optimized by preprocessing the magic_dict into e.g. one giant … Read more
Use the “-T” option to pass a file to tar that contains the filenames to tar up. tar -czv -T file_list.txt -f tarball.tar.gz
You can add the following to your bashrc file – export COPYFILE_DISABLE=true Or, you can add this option to your tar command at the extraction time tar -xzpvf x.tar –exclude=”._*”
To have a truly idempotent tar, mtime is a good step but not enough. You also need to set the sort order, the owner and group (together with their mapping) and a proper timezone for mtime (since otherwise you’re gonna have issues as well between Mac and Linux). I ended up with tar –sort=name –owner=root:0 … Read more
use the -j option of tar. tar -xjf /path/to/archive.tar.bz
tar –exclude=.svn -z -c -v -f mytarball.tar.gz mydir/
–compare (-d) is more handy for that. tar –compare –file=archive-file.tar works if archive-file.tar is in the directory it was created. To compare archive-file.tar against a remote target (eg if you have moved archive-file.tar to /some/where/) use the -C parameter: tar –compare –file=archive-file.tar -C /some/where/ If you want to see tar working, use -v without -v … Read more