I have a tar file which has number of files within it.
I need to write a python script which will read the contents of the files and gives the count o total characters, including total number of letters, spaces, newline characters, everything, without untarring the tar file.
How can we extract specific files from a large tar.gz file? I found the process of extracting files from a tar in this question but, when I tried the mentioned command there, I got the error:
This doesn’t work:
I am trying to create a graphical program for my script.
Is there a way to add/update a file in a tar.gz archive? Basically, I have an archive which contains a file at /data/data/com.myapp.backup/./files/settings.txt and I’d like to pull that file from the archive (already done) and push it back into the archive once the edit has been done. How can I accomplish this? Is it problematic because of the . in the path?
With an increasing number of archive/compression file formats, is there a single free/open-source command line tool to rule them all? Perhaps something with a consistent / unified set of flags? (note my friendly implicit reference to tar)
I have this very simple line in a bash script which executes successfully (i.e. producing the _data.tar file), except that it doesn’t exclude the sub-directories it is told exclude via the --exclude option:
I can probably write a shell script to find files only, then pass the list to tar, but I am wondering whether there already is a built-in feature in tar that allows doing just that, in a single command line?
I want to backup 1 terabyte of data to an external disk.
I try to create an archive with tar using relative paths. I use the following command: