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 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.

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 …

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>

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 …

The downloaded file was named vscode-server-linux-x64.tar.gz. If the process times out before the message waiting for vscode-cli-${COMMIT}.tar.gz.done and vscode-server.tar.gz exist appears, you …

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 ...

Mar 15, 2016 · I've extracted the files from the tar.gz file and there is a "setup" file within but it's not doing much for me. If someone could explain how to install python packages in this manner without …

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 …