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:

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 number of …

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>

In previous versions, it was sufficient to install the remote-ssh extension and then download the vscode-server-linux-x64.tar.gz file, extract it, and copy it to the server directory ~/.vscode-serv...

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 isn't returning …

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 …

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 …

Mar 4, 2013 · 36 To simply create a tarball of these files I would just do: tar cf ones.tar 1_*.txt tar cf twos.tar 2_*.txt Most likely you want to compress the tarballs, so use the z option: tar czf ones.tar.gz …

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 ...

Sep 22, 2016 · This means the file isn't really a gzipped tar file -- or any kind of gzipped file -- in spite of being named like one. When you download a file with wget, check for indications like Length: …