209 What is the advantage of using 'tar' today? 2013-03-14T14:33:41.800

149 How to specify level of compression when using tar -zcvf? 2011-07-01T18:00:22.243

139 How to password protect gzip files on the command line? 2010-07-12T12:50:47.870

133 Is there a way to see any tar progress per file? 2010-07-28T11:51:37.173

117 Linux Bash Script, Single Command But Multiple Lines? 2012-11-21T03:09:10.843

109 How do I unzip a tar gz archive to a specific destination? 2011-10-19T08:15:51.057

108 Linux / OS X tar incompatibility – tarballs created on OS X give errors when untarred in Linux 2011-08-03T21:47:30.783

106 create tar with multiple directories and file locations 2014-05-01T17:42:17.130

84 tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors 2010-07-29T07:17:55.313

76 Untar, ungz, gz, tar - how do you remember all the useful options? 2008-10-21T21:56:42.237

72 Why do I get files like ._foo in my tarball on OS X? 2009-10-27T01:10:35.540

71 How to open a .tar.gz file in Windows? 2010-11-27T14:46:57.963

69 Which is more efficient - tar or zip compression? What is the difference between tar and zip? 2010-08-09T12:32:27.150

67 How to obtain maximum compression with .tar.gz? 2012-12-01T20:47:48.430

62 gzip without tar? Why are they used together? 2011-03-02T03:40:48.010

61 How can I use tar command to group files without compression? 2013-01-08T15:38:20.380

58 Cannot decompress .tar.xz file, getting "xz: Cannot exec: No such file or directory" from tar 2014-08-21T16:19:38.923

52 Equivalent to tar's "--strip-components=1" in unzip? 2012-12-12T11:58:17.257

48 How do I password protect a .tgz file with tar in Unix? 2011-12-21T19:00:31.360

46 Get mac tar to stop putting ._* filenames in tar archives 2011-03-19T19:21:15.480

41 What is the difference between TAR vs CPIO archive file formats? 2011-10-07T07:11:34.820

41 How to tar a directory preserving not only permissions, but ownership too 2014-11-10T23:40:56.247

41 What is the correct MIME type for a tar.gz file? 2015-04-15T16:30:56.780

35 tar – extract discarding directory structure 2009-11-17T20:58:33.020

34 .tar files without directory structure 2011-04-18T06:13:23.390

33 Undo tar file extraction mess 2012-05-15T11:59:24.107

32 How to tar directory and then remove originals including the directory? 2010-01-17T11:25:07.563

32 Howto pipe: cp | tar | gzip without creating intermediary files? 2011-08-05T11:27:14.683

32 How do I use 7-Zip CLI for Windows to create .tar.gz archives? 2011-09-26T11:13:16.457

31 How to extract a tar file (.tgz) in windows? 2011-01-18T07:23:40.563

31 Is it possible to mount a .tar file? 2011-04-02T16:07:24.570

31 Extracting a tar.gz file returns, “This does not look like a tar archive.” 2014-11-18T18:44:43.653

29 Extract 7z files with standard linux tools? 2012-03-31T04:47:38.033

28 How to tar/untar the output on the fly 2011-10-11T16:26:21.657

28 How to untar an archive without the root folder, but keeping the full hierarchy inside it? 2015-04-09T16:29:48.927

27 unpack 'tar' but change directory name to extract to 2010-05-30T00:32:48.993

27 How to create tar archive split into, or spanning, multiple files? 2011-05-31T13:48:51.053

26 How can I create a zip / tgz in Linux such that Windows has proper filenames? 2009-10-25T14:41:17.217

26 How can I force only relative paths in "find" output? 2009-11-12T09:12:42.937

25 Linux: what is a most convenient way to see the content of .jar file 2012-04-27T12:37:43.383

24 How to get an empty tar archive? 2012-07-13T19:05:49.380

22 How do I create a tar file in alphabetical order? 2010-08-05T13:54:04.743

22 Is it OK to copy (not clone) a git repository using basic Unix commands? 2011-07-26T17:54:47.233

21 Show tar files sizes 2009-10-06T21:02:42.447

21 How can I create multipart tar file in Linux? 2010-10-13T00:10:00.667

19 extract single file from huge tgz file 2013-10-08T00:28:23.887

19 Compressing many similar big files 2014-03-18T19:35:48.463

18 tar -C with a wildcard file pattern 2011-04-04T14:10:01.277

18 Extract specific files in a tar archive using a wildcard 2012-11-12T22:26:51.873

18 how to copy entire linux root filesystem to new hard drive on with ssh and tar 2013-05-11T04:41:12.450

17 How to use password protection with the Linux tar command? 2011-04-19T08:20:17.250

17 Prepend prefix in tar 2013-05-14T12:25:56.980

16 Between xz, gzip, and bzip2, which compression algorithim is the most efficient? 2013-04-10T18:42:37.877

16 let tar auto detect compression type when extracting from stdin 2013-12-17T21:56:11.940

15 Is there a way to mount a file.tar.bz2 without extracting it onto the filesystem? 2011-03-14T18:02:47.817

14 Map "untar" to tar xvfz? 2009-09-19T19:12:19.223

14 In place extract tar archive 2010-06-25T13:14:00.290

14 What is the fastest compression method for a large number of files? 2011-06-19T04:55:36.570

13 SVN directly to tar 2009-11-29T12:59:31.220

13 What does `tar -C` mean? 2011-12-02T10:17:07.867

13 Avoid errors from tar failing to restore directory permissions 2014-01-09T13:36:04.840

12 Three formats? Why? 2010-03-14T12:37:15.070

12 How can I run the "tar -czf" command in Windows? 2011-02-11T18:22:29.383

12 How do I convert tar.bz2 to tar.gz? 2011-11-16T05:44:12.777

11 Put date into backup .tar.gz filename 2011-03-11T18:38:13.567

11 Extract file and folders with specified permissions 2012-01-23T00:37:34.520

11 tar: --exclude=".git": Cannot stat: No such file or directory 2013-03-01T14:12:20.897

11 How to extract multipart rar with missing parts? 2014-01-30T22:51:50.050

10 Does tar -xvf remove existing files from directory? 2010-08-18T19:14:57.567

10 Why is tar|tar so much faster than cp? 2014-07-26T18:34:34.880

10 AWS upload folder to S3 as tar.gz without compressing locally 2017-09-07T15:00:34.450

9 extract a few members from tar archive and pipe through network 2011-08-30T08:17:39.913

9 List full timestamps of files in a tarball 2012-09-08T02:07:47.610

9 .tgz file – tar: Unrecognized archive format 2013-03-19T19:20:44.137

9 How do I remove the full path when doing a tar.gz compression? 2013-12-24T11:06:03.583

8 Untar on Solaris 2009-09-29T04:03:14.960

8 tar Cannot open: No such file or directory 2010-06-09T19:02:10.710

8 rsync hack to bounce files between two unconnected servers 2010-08-23T12:28:45.240

8 How to split a tar file into smaller parts at file boundaries? 2010-09-17T09:40:01.633

8 Put tar'd files in a subdirectory 2011-01-25T19:09:42.113

8 How can I automatically remove files after they've been archived? 2012-10-18T10:10:12.250

8 Given that tar ignored my 2 sockets, how do I backup and then restore my login folder? 2014-01-23T01:28:05.157

8 Tar archive won't unpack – "Path contains '..'" 2014-12-15T01:34:19.590

8 Why are not all files compressed and how to improve the solution 2015-09-22T14:22:16.823

8 rsync to/from tar archive 2016-01-12T15:01:25.463

7 Specify root dir inside tarball 2010-01-20T01:09:35.243

7 How can I remove the leading path from a tar and retar it in memory? 2010-03-15T05:32:14.837

7 Tar and gzip together, but the other way round? 2010-05-19T20:13:48.593

7 Rsync to stdout? 2010-06-25T16:34:50.167

7 Why can't -z be the last command-line option to be used with tar? 2010-11-17T16:48:09.323

7 tar command to extract archive with colon in the name 2011-05-23T02:15:10.950

7 How to untar in Emacs dired? 2012-04-28T18:29:10.557

7 What's the meaning of the different "removing leading slash" warnings? 2012-06-04T12:07:02.947

7 What is the etymology behind "-j" indicating bzip2 for tar? 2012-06-26T00:57:52.557

7 How to stop tar from archiving the root path to files? 2013-05-27T12:13:28.620

7 Copy hundreds of thousands files Mac to NAS 2013-08-22T20:27:54.303

6 Tar: How to ignore the archive itself 2009-12-20T13:06:06.957

6 tar a directory 2010-02-01T04:36:11.693

6 zip/tar/? files with depth parameter 2010-10-18T20:36:41.337