unix, pack folder and contents with tar gz
tar -zcvf packagename.tar.gz folder/
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Avoiding tar's (or any other commandline's) argument list too long error
When you try to tar a large number of files (cp, mv, or anything else) you may hit the limit of ARG_MAX. You can overcome this by generating a list of files then feeding it to tar as follows:
# generate the file list find -iname '*.ext' > fileList.txt #run tar passing it the file list tar czvf archive.tar.gz --files-from fileList.txt # a shorthand of this would be: find . -name '*.ext' -print | tar -cvzf archive.tar.gz --files-from -
UNIX tar Commands
// how the heck do you do the stuff you do with zip but with tar
create tar file tar cvf filename.tar monkey.txt monkey2.txt add a file tar uvf filename.tar monkey.txt extract tar file tar xvf filename.tar list contents tar tf monkey.tar
ssh remote backups
// http://www.linux.com/article.pl?sid=06/01/12/1937210
// Backup with remote compression and storage
// When compression is necessary (and feasible), workload
// distribution becomes more effective with OpenSSH. Just as // distcc allows multiple machines to compile
// simultaneously, OpenSSH lets one system create the
// archive, while another system compresses it:
// tar cf - dirname | ssh remotehost "gzip -c >
// ${TMPFILE}.tar.gz"
// Backup with remote compression and storage
// When compression is necessary (and feasible), workload
// distribution becomes more effective with OpenSSH. Just as // distcc allows multiple machines to compile
// simultaneously, OpenSSH lets one system create the
// archive, while another system compresses it:
// tar cf - dirname | ssh remotehost "gzip -c >
// ${TMPFILE}.tar.gz"
tar cf - local-dir-eliotwalker | ssh -l mctt remote-glos.corruptive.co.uk "gzip -c > corr.tar.gz"
