Open source command line data stream compressor and archiver.
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How to unzip and display as plain text .foo.gz files in Firefox?
Using Firefox (currently at version 20.0), when browsing to a URL containing a file with an extension of .foo.gz, how can I make Firefox download it to a temporary location, un-gzip it and display the ...
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Compressing big files into several files ubuntu
so I am wondering if we on Ubuntu have an option to compress an directory of for instance 2GB size into several files that are restricted to the size of say 100 MB? I know on m$ Windows you can do ...
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Stencyl wont extract? ubuntu 12.10
so im on 64 bit ubuntu 12.10, and im trying to get Stencyl to work. i have the
Stencyl-2.1.0.tar.gz
but when i try to extract it (like it says to do in the Stencyl download instructions) it gives ...
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Ubuntu 12.10 Can't install any apps due Stranger error
I can't install any app in the Ubuntu, I can't even open the Software Center (It Crashes)
When I run sudo apt-get update, it shows me
W: Falhou ao buscar ...
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Gzip and rename (remove .gz extension) all files except images and PDFs?
I am able to gzip every file in a directory (mydirectory) using the command:
gzip --suffix .gz --recursive mydirectory
But...
I don't want the images (.ico, .jpg, .png, .gif) and PDFs (.pdf) ...
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Install .tar.gz and .tar files? [duplicate]
Cody again. I'm still sort of a noob at installing things so I need your help... Im trying to install hping3 and of course it's a .tar.gz file... I've looked everywhere even on here and no ...
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How can I unzip files with “weird” extensions in ubuntu?
How can I unzip such files in ubuntu?
I have a list of files end with those extensions
filename.tar.gzaa
filename.tar.gzab
filename.tar.gzac
filename.tar.gzad
filename.tar.gzae
...
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How to install atoms to use scilab in 12.04 LTS?
I am completely new to ubuntu but comfortable working with terminal. I have installed scilab for my project work and now want to install some atoms. I've downloaded tar.gz folders but I don't know the ...
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Any linux command to perform parallel decompression of tar.bz2 file?
I have a rather large file (~50GB) and it takes some time to run
tar xvf file.tar.bz2
on it. I'm aware of programs that can do parallel compression for bzip2 files but unaware of programs that can ...
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Is there an audio player for Ubuntu that can automatically decompress and play gzipped music?
I'm looking at ways to reduce the amount of space taken up by my large collection of music, mostly Ogg Vorbis with the occasional MP3. What prompted this was thinking ahead to potentially using an ...
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How to compress (archive) partition (or disk) and then mount it directly
How to mount compressed disk image?
Here is my situation: I have hard drive with (fresh) OS installation. I made compressed image of that disk to another disk.
How to make compressed disk image to ...
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Manually add files to tar
I have a ton of txt.gz files on a network I want to ungzip and put into a tgz. I have enough disk space for the all compressed files, but not uncompressed.
The way I see it in my head is
tar -czf ...
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Having trouble with .tar.gz extraction
I tried to extract .tar.gz file using following command
spgt@ubuntu:~$ tar xvf 12.0sp1_232_quartus_free_linux.tar.gz
but this is what I see after I press return
tar: ...
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Why compressed directories cannot be extracted in /opt?
I am not able to uncompress a file with .tar.gz extension
Did
sudo tar -xvzf ~/Downloads/file.tar.gz /opt/ but no success.
it says:
tar: /opt: Not found in archive
tar: Exiting with failure status ...
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I am trying to install a compressed package ending in .tar.gz and I am getting an error saying that it is not in the right format,
I am new to Ubuntu and after doing some research I still can't figure what I am doing wrong. I am downloading the a package ending in .tar.gz,then I when I try to use;
tar -xvf ...
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Which kind of installation files should you prefer - .deb or tarball files? And why?
I have just starting Ubuntu as my primary OS and everytime I have to install something I generally try to find .deb files as that seems convenient, but someone on another forum told me I should always ...
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internal gzip read error
I have a Dell Optiplex 755 Core 2 Duo that I made a fresh install of 12.04. There is no Winows OS on the machine. It has been running mostly fine for over a week. I do keep getting system crashes due ...
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Python gzip fails on Ubuntu 11.04
This function is based on the Python sample code @ http://docs.python.org/library/gzip.html. It runs reliably on Ubuntu 10.04 with its default Python 2.6x. On Ubuntu 11.04, however, the code fails @ ...
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How to install Truecrypt?
I have recently downloaded truecrypt from www.truecrypt.org and got a .tar.gz file. I am completely new to ubuntu and dont know how to install it.Please help and give extra details.
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cannot install application from source using tar.gz archive
I tried to install utimer (https://launchpad.net/utimer) by following the below steps.
$ tar -zvxf utimer-0.4.tar.gz
$ cd utimer-0.4
/utimer-0.4$ ./configure
/utimer-0.4$ ls
aclocal.m4 autogen.sh ...
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What happens when I drop a file on archive in Nautilus?
I had this file structure:
2000/
001.txt
002.txt
003.txt
...
2001/
...
2002/
...
...
2011/
I guess file structure doesn't matter, but anyway...
So folders are representing couple of ...
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tar unpack : Unexpected EOF in archive
I have downloaded "eclipse-platform-3.7-linux-gtk-x86_64.tar.gz".
Using Ubuntu 10.10 64-bit on Intel 64-bit processor.
While trying to unpack the contents (either double-click or right-click & ...
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How to unzip a zip file from the Terminal?
Just downloaded a .zip file from the internet. I want to use the terminal to unzip the file. What is the correct way to do this?
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Compress in .tgz
I want to compress files in .tgz. I know how to make tar.gz(with tar and gzip) and some people say it is almost the same, but I need to make a .tgz, how??
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Gzip time to decompress?
I wanted to backup my entire server, which is hosted. So I used dd and gzip to make the file smaller. The disk was 500GB, but with less than 5% used. I managed to dd the whole partition into a 200 ...
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“less” doesn't automatically decompress gzipped files
On Fedora/Redhat/CentOS the less command seems to magically detect a gzipped file and decompress it on the fly, so you can do:
less my_stuff.csv.gz
I've just noticed this doesn't work on Ubuntu 11
...
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What's the best way to use parallel bzip2 and gzip by default?
Bzip2 and gzip only use one core, although many computers have more than one core. But there are programs like lbzip2, pbzip2 and pigz, which use all available cores and promise to be compatible with ...
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Weird Characters On gzip Package
I'm trying to gzip my js files which in js folder.
gzip -cr js
I'm using this command on Terminal but this is result:
8�H�Q�YUG�`]{_��a"G9xj�C�!��Y �c�S�ؙ�SY�}���-mU�����w��@f�x��
...
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How can I gzip my web directories?
I would like to make a compressed file of my web sites folder and send it to a backups folder, and I can't seem to find anything specific on google.
My web folder is : ...
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How can I maximally compress .gz files in Nautilus?
When selecting Compress... from the right click context menu in Nautilus I am able to quickly compress files to .gz format.
However by default Nautilus does not use maximum compression. Can I make ...
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How do I compress a directory?
I'm trying to compress a directory and ftp it to a windows ftp.
I have tried every tar command I can find to compress a directory. It appears to be ok. Then I transfer it and view it's contents ...
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Repair gzipped tar
I have a pretty large(50Gb) tar.gz file that I can't untar anymore. Error that I am getting is this:
gzip: stdin: not in gzip format
tar: Child returned status 1
tar: Error is not recoverable: ...
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gzip is not working after the pipeline
For some reason gzip doesn't work. It gives me an empty file
/usr/bin/mysqldump --opt -u root -ppassword database > database.sql | gzip > database.sql.gz
database.sql is correctly created and ...
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Backup bash script is not gzipping its tarball
I have a bash script that runs as a cron to backup files on the server.
#!/bin/bash
FILE=/path/to/backup_$(date +%Y%m%d).tar
tar -cf $FILE /backup/this /and/that /and/someotherfiles
gzip $FILE
When ...
