Questions tagged [archive-tar]
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"Untar" file on iPhone
I'm writing an iPhone app which downloads a tar-gzipped file from a Webserver, then needs to unarchive this file so that it can be copied into the app's Documents folder.
I'm using tar/gzip because I want to download a whole bunch of small files in…
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Why does Perl's Archive::Tar run out of memory?
I am using below Perl code to list the files in tar archive. The size of the tar archive is always about 15MB.
my $file = shift;
my $tar = Archive::Tar->new("$file");
my @lists = $tar->list_files;
$tar->error unless @lists;
Executing this code…
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Extract tar archive with empty directories with php PharData
I'm trying to extract a .tar archive by means of PHP.
I'm using such a code:
$phar = new PharData('test.tar');
$phar->extractTo('/home/user/newtest');
It works fine, but if my archive contains en empty directory it is not extracted by the mentioned…
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How do I create a tar archive that will not expand to a subfolder?
I don't want to create a "flat" tarball that has no internal directory structure. But I want the top-level files to be "loose" rather than mirroring the directory structure they were on originally.
Consider:
+ archives
|
+ data
|
+ site
…
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TrueZip Random Access Functionality
I'm trying to understand how to randomly traverse a file/files in a .tar.gz using TrueZIP in a Java 6 environment( using the Files classes). I found instances where it uses Java 7's Path, however, I can't come up with an example on how to randomly…
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Why is Perl's IO:Compress::Adapter::Deflate running out of memory?
I'm trying to set the file permissions of files contained in a tarball with the following:
print "Checking $tgz_file... ";
my $edited = 0;
my $tarball = Archive::Tar->new($tgz_file);
my @items = $tarball->get_files();
foreach (@items) {
if…
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Extract a previous version of file that is stored within a tar archive
I have a tar file which contain different versions of the same file, how can I extract one of the previous version of the file (not the last version) ?
here is how to create a test tar file:
create a test directory
tal@backup:~/tmp$ mkdir…
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How do I archive an Android repo?
With the usual git repo that I created using git clone, I can easily use git archive to export it to a tar archive, in the case that I am only interested in the current snapshot and not the entire history of the git repository.
Can I do the same…
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Golang: Facing error while creating .tar.gz file having large name
I am trying to create a .tar.gz file from folder that contains multiple files / folders. Once the .tar.gz file gets created, while extracting, the files are not not properly extracted. Mostly I think its because of large names or path exceeding some…
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On the fly zip or tar creation?
I may NOT bother with this but if its very simple i may consider it. The site i am working on by design is to hold hundreds of thousands of files. I dont know if we'll have only one download or multiple. Right now the choices are A) Just the file B)…
user34537
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Comparing files from tape and disk using MD5 with perl archive::tar fails
We want to create a report with MD5 checks between an tar archive on tape and the files on disk. I created a script that should do this, but it works correct using a tar file, but it failes when using a tar on tape. The tar was written with gnu tar…
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How do I get PEAR.php with Composer?
I installed pear/archive_tar to work with Phing, which I installed with Composer. However, I received this error:
BUILD FAILED
exception 'BuildException' with message 'Error reading project file [wrapped: You must have installed the PEAR Archive_Tar…
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Code a C program to make .tar file from files and include struct stat
Greetings Stackoverflow,
I have a project where I will need to write a C program which generates a .tar archive using files that are specified in the command line arguments. The program is supposed to simulate and work just like the built in tar…
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How to add complete tree structure into a .tar.bz2 file with Perl?
I am looking to compress a lot of data spread across loads of sub-directories into an archive. I cannot simply use built-in tar functions because I need my Perl script to work in a Windows as well as a Linux environment. I have found the…
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perl untar single file
So running into an issue with my code here not sure what exactly i'm doing wrong i pass it the two arguments it searches for the file but its always going to does not exist.
i pass this to the file
perl restore.cgi users_old_52715.tar.gz…
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