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- Dictionarytar/tɑː/
noun
- 1. a dark, thick flammable liquid distilled from wood or coal, consisting of a mixture of hydrocarbons, resins, alcohols, and other compounds. It is used in road-making and for coating and preserving timber.
verb
- 1. cover (something) with tar: "now that it is being tarred, the road will facilitate safer transport"
- 2. blame or damage the reputation of (someone): "he is trying to stop his company from being tarred by association"
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This old way of writing 'tar' options can surprise even experienced users. For example, the two commands: tar cfz archive.tar.gz file tar -cfz archive.tar.gz file are quite different. The first example uses 'archive.tar.gz' as the value for option 'f' and recognizes the option 'z'.
You renamed the openresty-1.9.7.3.tar to openresty-1.9.7.3.tar.gz, but this didn't make it gzipped tar archive. So first command fails, because this can't be gunzipped. Second command just verbosely extract the archive, without trying to gunzip it.
Use the -C switch of tar:. tar -czvf my_directory.tar.gz -C my_directory . The -C my_directory tells tar to change the current directory to my_directory, and then . means "add the entire current directory" (including hidden files and sub-directories).
Dec 5, 2017 · I was wondering on where the origins of the word tar to mean thank you came from. I have reached tar and have come up with this definition. Tar is a dark brown or black viscous liquid of hydrocarbons and free carbon, obtained from a wide variety of organic materials through destructive distillation. How does this relate to being thankful?
tar in itself just bundles files together (the result is called a tarball), while zip applies compression as well. Usually you use gzip along with tar to compress the resulting tarball, thus achieving similar results as with zip. For reasonably large archives there are important differences though. A zip archive is a collection of compressed files.
Aug 5, 2015 · tar -x -v -f httpd-2.2.31.tar Single character switches can be grouped together eg -xvf and seemingly unique to tar, the first argument will be treated as switches regardless of whether there is a hyphen.
Jun 12, 2009 · Different tar versions expects this options in different order: for instance, @Andrew's answer indicates that in GNU tar v 1.26 and 1.28 the excludes comes last, whereas in my case, with GNU tar 1.29, it's the other way.
Apr 9, 2015 · If you run the command in terminal man tar it will bring up a manual which describes what each does. The following are what each command does: -c, --create create a new archive
Jun 6, 2014 · The very first dash is unnecessary, you could equally write: tar cvf ... The second dash belongs with the f option and it says "instead of creating a named file in the filesystem, write the tarred up files onto stdout".
Nov 17, 2008 · tar -xf output.tar.gz tar -xf output.tgz # A synonym for the .tar.gz extension tar -xf output.tar.bz2 and these will be handled properly. If you use a non-standard compressor, then you need to specify that when you do the extraction.] The reason for the separation is, as in the selected answer, the separation of duties.
