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Linux: tar Extract Files

by Vivek Gite on February 16, 2010 · 0 comments

How can I extract or uncompress a file from tar ball downloaded from the Internet under Linux using bash command prompt?

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How do I extract a single file or directory form a tarball under UNIX / Linux shell prompt? How do I restore a single file from /dev/st0 tape device?

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I’ve download ed .tbz file. How do I open .tbz file under Linux / UNIX operating system using a shell prompt or GUI application?

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List the contents of a tar.bz2

by Vivek Gite on February 4, 2008 · 1 comment

Q. How do I list the contents of a tar.bz2 file under Linux or UNIX operating systems using a shell prompt?

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How do I create a tar file under Linux using command line options?

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We have recently brought a new Sun Solaris UNIX server. How do I Backup data and make a recovery for the Solaris OS using tar and tape device?

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List the contents of a tar or tar.gz file

by Vivek Gite on September 28, 2006 · 14 comments

Q. How do I list the contents of a tar or tar.gz file? A. GNU/tar is an archiving program designed to store and extract files from an archive file known as a tarfile. You can create a tar file or compressed tar file tar. However sometime you need to list the contents of a tar [...]

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