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Error with 'tar' commad, “Cannot open: No such file or directory” [closed]
I am trying to connect my Xbox with my laptop using uShare. For that I am following exactly what I have to do according to Installation of uShare on Ubuntu documentation.
Unfortunately, at step 3 ...
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Installing software without Ubuntu Software Center
I have a file downloaded from the Internet.
To be specific I downloaded Code::Blocks from its official site.
The file name is codeblocks.tar.bz2.
If I don't have Internet connection and also ...
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Directly compress stdout
can someone tell me if is possible to directly compress stdout?
I would like to do this in one step without creating temporary file files.txt...
Example:
cat file* > files.txt
tar -czf files.tar ...
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Extract only the contents of an archived directory from within an archive
The Situation
I am extracting a CMS from drupal-7.15.tar.gz to /var/www.
When extracted normally (with 'tar -xvzf filename.tar.gz') the files end up in /var/www/drupal-7.15/
The Goal
I want the ...
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Can't install tar.bz2 file due to “no such file or directory” error
I've been trying compile mdk3-v6 but I run into errors.
Started off by trying sudo apt-get install that didn't work.
Downloaded from another source and tried tar -xjf mdk3-v6.tar.bz2
Keep getting ...
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How do I extract a specific file from a tar archive?
Hi is possible to restore a single file from the .tar backup ? I dont want to restore total backup . i just want to restore one single file from the backup .
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How can I tweak this split-tar-gz-archive script?
I came across this shell script that can be used to split an entire directory across multiple compressed files.
I am interested in making a minor tweak to this script. Lets say I have n GB of files ...
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Cannot create an archive with .tar command (Permission Denied)
Fİrst of all I am sorry for my noob question. I am really new to Unix based OS. I need to to create a archive from my ftp server (all of the /usr/src/ directory) using tar command. However I keep ...
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tar -cvfz command results in error message unless I omit the hyphen before 'cvfz' [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
sudo tar cvpzf exiting with failure due to previous error
When I run the command
tar -cvfz backup.tar.gz somedirectory
I get the following sterr
tar: Exiting with ...
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Is there any ncurses archiver interface available?
I am looking for a way to create archives on the commandline with some minimal ASCII interface.
Could be for tar, zip or rar files, but should provide miniml ncurses (or other) "fake" graphical ...
