tar -cvzf filename.tar.gz directory_to_compress/ Most tar commands have a z option to create a gziped version. Though seems to me the question is how to circumvent Google. I’m not sure if renaming your output file would fool Google, but you could try. I.e., tar -cvzf filename.bla directory_to_compress/ and then send the filename.bla – contents will … Read more
tar.gz file is just a tar file that’s been gzipped. Both tar and gzip are available for windows. If you like GUIs (Graphical user interface), 7zip can pack with both tar and gzip.
You can do this with the Apache Commons Compress library. You can download the 1.2 version from http://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.apache.commons/commons-compress/1.2. Here are two methods: one that unzips a file and another one that untars it. So, for a file <fileName>tar.gz, you need to first unzip it and after that untar it. Please note that the tar archive … Read more
With GNU tar, use the option –remove-files.
depth=1 tar –exclude=”*/*” -tf file.tar depth=2 tar –exclude=”*/*/*” -tf file.tar
Something like: tar cfz foo.tgz –files-from=- But keep in mind that this won’t work for all possible filenames; you should consider the –null option and feed tar from find -print0. (The xargs example won’t quite work for large file lists because it will spawn multiple tar commands.)
Using the arcname argument of TarFile.add() method is an alternate and convenient way to match your destination. Example: you want to archive a dir repo/a.git/ to a tar.gz file, but you rather want the tree root in the archive begins by a.git/ but not repo/a.git/, you can do like followings: archive = tarfile.open(“a.git.tar.gz”, “w|gz”) archive.add(“repo/a.git”, … Read more
This works for any file size: zcat archive.tar.gz | wc -c For files smaller than 4Gb you could also use the -l option with gzip: $ gzip -l compressed.tar.gz compressed uncompressed ratio uncompressed_name 132 10240 99.1% compressed.tar
The problem is that your arguments are in incorrect order. The single file argument must be last. E.g. $ tar xvf test.tar -C anotherDirectory/ testfile1 should do the trick. PS: You should have asked this question on superuser instead of SO
What’s going on here? Originally, the tar command was intended for use with magnetic tape devices. Since it only made sense to execute tar on one device at a time, the syntax was designed to assume one and only one device. The first file or directory passed was assumed to be the device that held … Read more