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| **General Information** | **General Information** | ||
| - | About this page/how-to/script. | + | You can do most all with tar, but it doesn' |
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| * -u => update a file in an existing archive if the source is newer | * -u => update a file in an existing archive if the source is newer | ||
| * -f => archive filename | * -f => archive filename | ||
| + | * --selinux => include selinux contexts | ||
| Archive and compress (using gzip) the /var/log directory | Archive and compress (using gzip) the /var/log directory | ||
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| </ | </ | ||
| + | \\ | ||
| List contents of archive | List contents of archive | ||
| <code bash> | <code bash> | ||
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| </ | </ | ||
| + | \\ | ||
| Decompress and unpack at the same time to current directory | Decompress and unpack at the same time to current directory | ||
| <code bash> | <code bash> | ||
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| </ | </ | ||
| + | \\ | ||
| Decompress and unpack at the same time to a different existing directory | Decompress and unpack at the same time to a different existing directory | ||
| <code bash> | <code bash> | ||
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| </ | </ | ||
| + | \\ | ||
| Add a new file to an existing archive | Add a new file to an existing archive | ||
| <code bash> | <code bash> | ||
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| ===== star ===== | ===== star ===== | ||
| + | Install (usually not there by default) | ||
| + | <code bash> | ||
| + | yum install star | ||
| + | </ | ||
| + | |||
| + | \\ | ||
| Archive and compress the /var/log directory (name it logs.tar.gz) | Archive and compress the /var/log directory (name it logs.tar.gz) | ||
| <code bash> | <code bash> | ||
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| </ | </ | ||
| + | \\ | ||
| List archive contents | List archive contents | ||
| <code bash> | <code bash> | ||
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| </ | </ | ||
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| Decompress, unpack a bzip2 (star auto selects proper decompression type) | Decompress, unpack a bzip2 (star auto selects proper decompression type) | ||
| <code bash> | <code bash> | ||
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| </ | </ | ||
| + | \\ | ||
| Decompress an archive | Decompress an archive | ||
| <code bash> | <code bash> | ||
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| </ | </ | ||
| + | \\ | ||
| Cat a compressed file (useful for rotated logs) | Cat a compressed file (useful for rotated logs) | ||
| <code bash> | <code bash> | ||
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| </ | </ | ||
| + | \\ | ||
| Decompress an archive | Decompress an archive | ||
| <code bash> | <code bash> | ||
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| </ | </ | ||
| + | \\ | ||
| Cat a compressed file (useful for rotated logs) | Cat a compressed file (useful for rotated logs) | ||
| <code bash> | <code bash> | ||