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 …

The tar man page is extremely unhelpful for this option (at least on RedHat 5.4 thru 6.3): "-T: get names to extract or create from file F". "Extract or create" sounds like it applies to taking files …

Sep 11, 2013 · 122 I want to tar and all .php and .html files in a directory and its subdirectories. If I use tar -cf my_archive * it tars all the files, which I don't want. If I use tar -cf my_archive *.php …

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 …

Sep 8, 2013 · There are already many questions about tar and backuping in stackoverflow and at other places on the web, but most of them ask for dropping the entire sub-directory structure …

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 …

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 ...

Apr 8, 2010 · Something like: tar cfz foo.tgz --files-from=- But keep in mind that this won't work for all possible filenames; you should consider the --null option and feed tar from find -print0. (The …

Mar 15, 2016 · Basically tar.gz is just a zip file containing a setup, so what you want to do is to unzip it, cd to the place where it is downloaded and use gunzip -c seaborn-0.7.0.tar.gz | tar xf - …