Mark Adler’s top voted answer on the SO link that you included in your question does provide a solution for specifying compression-level as well as number of processors to use: tar cf – paths-to-archive | pigz -9 -p 32 > archive.tar.gz See : https://stackoverflow.com/a/12320421
This answered it for me (directly from the wheel PEP): Python needs a package format that is easier to install than sdist. Python’s sdist packages are defined by and require the distutils and setuptools build systems, running arbitrary code to build-and-install, and re-compile, code just so it can be installed into a new virtualenv. This … Read more
Ensure that you have the bzip2 and bzip2-libs RPMs installed. It looks like the tar command defers to the bzip2 command which the bzip2 RPM provides (/usr/bin/bzip2). In your case, tar specifically tries to call bzip2 -d to decompress the bzipped archive. Also, a couple of tips: The -v option is not necessary. It just … Read more
I’ve written a wrapper for commons-compress called jarchivelib that makes it easy to extract or compress from and into File objects. Example code would look like this: File archive = new File(“/home/thrau/archive.tar.gz”); File destination = new File(“/home/thrau/archive/”); Archiver archiver = ArchiverFactory.createArchiver(“tar”, “gz”); archiver.extract(archive, destination);
I believe tar has been added as a native function in Windows 10 since the posting of this. From the command prompt or PowerShell in Windows 10 I can run tar -xvzf .\whatever.tar.gz Note that the .\ was added after auto-completing by the use of tab in PowerShell, but I think it should work without … Read more
You will get a nasty surprise when the number of files increase to more than one xargs command: Then you will first make a tar file of the first files and then overwrite the same tar file with the rest of the files. GNU tar has the –exclude option which will solve this issue: tar … Read more
Use – as the input file: cat largefile.tgz.aa largefile.tgz.ab | tar zxf – Make sure you cat them in the same order they were split. If you’re using zsh you can use the multios feature and avoid invoking cat: < largefile.tgz.aa < largefile.tgz.ab tar zxf – Or if they are in alphabetical order: <largefile.tgz.* | … Read more
Yes, you can run: tar -xvf myfile.tar For .tar.gz, you can run: tar -xzvf myfile.tar.gz If you want to extract to any directory other than your cwd, use -C. e.g: tar -xvf myfile.tar -C somedirectory I suggest you read the man page for tar if you wish to do anything further: man tar
Why don’t you untar normally, then just: mv wordpress/.* . mv wordpress/* . rmdir wordpress But alas, there’s: tar –strip-components=1 -zxvf wordpress.tgz
Which tar? GNU Tar accepts a –transform argument, to which you give a sed expression to manipulate filenames. For example, to rename during unpacking: tar -zxf my-dir.tar.gz –transform s/my-dir/your-dir/ BSD tar and S tar similarly have an -s argument, taking a simple /old/new/ (not a general sed expression).