Jun 12, 2009 · Is there a simple shell command/script that supports excluding certain files/folders from being archived? I have a directory that need to be archived with a sub directory that has a …

I typically do: tar -czvf my_directory.tar.gz my_directory What if I just want to include everything (including any hidden system files) in my_directory, but not the directory itself? I don't want:

I have seen on many websites commands like this what does the "-zxvf" or the similar commands stand for? tar -zxvf <filename> tar xvf <filename>

I wonder how to list the content of a tar file only down to some level? I understand tar tvf mytar.tar will list all files, but sometimes I would like to only see directories down to some level.

Sep 11, 2013 · 122 I want to tar and all .php and .html files in a directory and its subdirectories. If I use tar -cf my_archive * it tars all the files, which I don't want. If I use tar -cf my_archive *.php …

Jul 26, 2016 · I have a large number of files in a .tar.gz archive. Checking the file type with the command file SMS.tar.gz gives the response gzip compressed data - deflate method , max …

Sep 17, 2013 · I am trying to create a .tar.xz compressed archive in one command. What is the specific syntax for that? I have tried tar cf - file | xz file.tar.xz, but that does not work.

Now I'm trying to extract the .tar file using tar -xv filename.tar. My Problem The extraction doesn't seem to be working! After I've typed the tar -xv filename.tar command and hit enter, the shell …

A gzipped tar is a compressed collection (of uncompressed files). Thus a zip archive is a randomly accessible list of concatenated compressed items, and a .tar.gz is an archive that …

I try to tar.gz a directory and use tar -czf workspace.tar.gz * The resulting tar includes .svn directories in subdirs but NOT in the current directory (as * gets expanded to only 'visible' files ...