Shell command to tar directory excluding certain files folders 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 number of very
Tar a directory, but dont store full absolute paths in the archive There are already many questions about tar and backuping in stackoverflow and at other places on the web, but most of them ask for dropping the entire sub-directory structure (flattening), or just add or remove the initial in the names (I don't know what it changes exactly when extracting), but no more
linux - How do I tar a directory without retaining the directory . . . tar -czf destination tar gz -C source directory $(ls source directory) This solution: Includes all files and folders in the directory Does not include any of the directory structure (or ) in the final product Does not require you to change directories However, it requires the directory to be given twice, so it may be most useful in another
How to add progress bar to a somearchive. tar. xz extract 55 When extracting with tar you can use the --checkpoint option What you get is not really a progress bar but good enough to see the progress In this example, tar will print a message each 100 records written If you place a dot immediately after the equal sign, it will just print a
linux - tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now - Stack Overflow The tar program can use external compression programs gzip, bzip2, xz by opening a pipe to those programs, sending a tar archive via the pipe to the compression utility, which compresses the data which it reads from tar and writes the result to the filename which the tar program specifies
linux - How to extract filename. tar. gz file - Stack Overflow 0 A tar gz is a tar file inside a gzip file, so 1st you must unzip the gzip file with gunzip -d filename tar gz , and then use tar to untar it However, since gunzip says it isn't in gzip format, you can see what format it is in with file filename tar gz, and use the appropriate program to open it
How to tar certain file types in all subdirectories? 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 * html it ignores subdirectories How can I make it tar recursively but include only two types of files?