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tar -tf filename.tar
folder1/file
folder1/name
[...]
I'd like to extract file and name to, folder2. Can this be done as a one-liner?
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Is there a way to untar a file with multiple tars inside? It's suppose to just untar everything inside including untarring the tars inside the tar... With windows it does it, quite annoying I can't figure it out on linux... Here is what I am doing:
# tar -xvf socialengine4.0.5p1.tar
core-base-4…
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Does anyone have a command syntax for extracting 1 file from a .tar.gz that also allows me to place the extracted file in a certain directory? I have Google'd this and get too many variations with a lot of forum threads stating the syntax doesn't work. Before I venture on I prefer to know the command…
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I need to unarchive a file to the /Developer folder.
My file is in /Users/User/Desktop/VMware/Downloads
And I am trying
tar -xf qt-everywhere-ios-4.8.0-arm7-nossl.tar.gz -C /Developer
and keep getting:
Lions-Mac:Downloads User$ tar -xf qt-everywhere-ios-4.8.0-arm7-nossl.tar -C /Developer
tar:…
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My current directory contains a single file like this-
$ls -l
-rw-r--r-- 1 root staff 8 May 28 09:10 pavan
Now, I want to tar and gzip this file like
$tar -cvf - * 2>/dev/null |gzip -vf9 > pavan.tar.gz 2>/dev/null
(I am aware I am creating the zipped file in the…
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I am unable to get the Mingw tar to work with compress files. It does not filter through the proper compression utility. However, tar will work if I manually uncompress the file first. I have tried in both the MSYS shell and Windows cmd. Has anyone had this problem or is it a MinGW bug?
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