Compress a folder with tar? - Unix Linux Stack Exchange To tar and gzip a folder, the syntax is: tar czf name_of_archive_file tar gz name_of_directory_to_tar Adding - before the options (czf) is optional with tar The effect of czf is as follows: c — create an archive file (as opposed to extract, which is x) f — filename of the archive file z — filter archive through gzip (remove this option to create a tar file) If you want to tar the
Fastest way combine many files into one (tar czf is too slow) Currently I'm running tar czf to combine backup files The files are in a specific directory But the number of files is growing Using tzr czf takes too much time (more than 20 minutes and counti
Why difference in tar czf in Debian 8. 5 and 8. 7? @SYN There is a change in the policy from Debian 8 5 to 8 7, since the former command worked before I will start to use -czf systematically if it is so like you say then - - Please, make your comment an answer so I can accept it
Is it wrong to do tar czf somename. tar some_*_files? 0 Is it wrong to do tar czf somname tar some_*_files instead of tar czf somname tar gz some_*_files, then of course tar xf somename tar? That is : without adding the gz extension This question is purely about not adding the gz extension to the filename somename tar and if this comes with any unexpected side-effects
How to create tar archive in a different directory? I want to create a tar archive in a different directory rather than the current directory I tried this command: tar czf file tar gz file1 -C var www but it creates the archive in the current
tar --exclude doesnt exclude. Why? - Unix Linux Stack Exchange I have this very simple line in a bash script which executes successfully (i e producing the _data tar file), except that it doesn't exclude the sub-directories it is told exclude via the --exclude
tar create: How to avoid to show the tar: Removing leading ` from . . . Having absolute paths as archive members is a bad idea That's why GNU tar actually removes the initial by default (from archive member names and from hard link targets if any) If you're happy for tar do that stripping but want to remove the warning, you can do the stripping by yourself: tar -C -czf ~ numbers tar gz home username numbers Or: tar -C home username -czf ~ numbers tar gz