I want to create a zip archive for some files in folder hierarchy.
for example:
abc.php_0973_890
newone.text_2344_870
I want to have:
abc.phpnewone.txt in my zip archive. Is there any way for doing this?
We can not do that as zip doesnot suuport anything like that, we can use tar for such things as it as options like: --transform which can be used to transform the output filename
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I currently have about 10 zip files I would like to extract into one folder. Each zip file contains around 1000 images. As a result, lots of the names of the images are duplicated. For example, in the first zip file, we have things like Img.jpg, Img(1).jpg, Img(2).jpg. I know that to extract multiple zip files into a single folder, I would do something like:
unzip '*.zip'
However, when it tries to put a file from the first zip file that has the same name as a file in the second zip file, it starts to ask:
replace duplicatefile.mp4? [y]es, [n]o, [A]ll, [N]one, [r]ename:
At this point, what do I do if I want to keep ALL files, including the duplicates, and possibly have them named to image(1).jpg instead?
In short, is there a way to call the unzip command on all the zip files, have them extracted into a single folder, without losing any files due to same names?
Thanks.
Invoke unzip --help for details.
But it appears unzip *.zip -n should do the trick?
(Make sure it does what you expect before going ahead!)
I want to copy a folder and files in it to another place preserving there attributes like create date, update date ,permissions etc..
How can i do that ?
Just make a tar of that folder or file and extract it where ever you want.
Its attributes will be intact.
To create a tar.gz archive from a given folder you can use the following command
tar -zcvf tar-archive-name.tar.gz source-folder-name
This will compress the contents of source-folder-name to a tar.gz archive named tar-archive-name.tar.gz
To extract a tar.gz compressed archive you can use the following command
tar -zxvf tar-archive-name.tar.gz
And you are done :)
I have a tar file called test.tgz , inside it are the following files:
tool.foo
atest.you
btest.you
ctest.you
t.you
I want to rename the files inside test.tgz to be:
0.foo
0.you
1.you
2.you
3.you
Without the use of extracting the files and repacking them. How could I accomplish this?
Even though you can't rename the files in the tar archive, you can rename them with a sed expression on the fly while they are being extracted. The option to tar is--transform [sed-expression].
You do need to extract the files before you rename them. When files are in a tgz, they are protected from change.
If I have a list of files I want to zip, how can I pass the list to zip?
cookbook/application/views/index.php
cookbook/application/controller/index.php
cookbook/js/index.js
....
cookbook/css/index.css
To do the above list one by one at the command-line would be like zip -r my.zip cookbook/css/index.css, where my.zip is in the same root directory as cookbook
Try
zip -r# my.zip < listfile
The -# flag tells zip to read file names from stdin.
If all files are in the same folder, you don't need to type each file that you want to include in the archive. Just invoke the command and specify their common folder like this:
zip -r cookbook.zip cookbook
All files inside the cookbook directory will be included in the zip archive.
so I did this
tar cvzf test.zip FP
with the intention of creating a zip of the directory FP
however, it instead lists the directories inside the zip
FP/
FP/php/
FP/php/pdf/
FP/php/docs/
FP/aspnet/
FP/aspnet/pdf/
FP/aspnet/docs/
how do I go about tarring the directory?
Your command is good indeed.
Listing appear when specifying v option (in 'cvzf')
You can check what a gzipped tar file contain by running
$ tar tzvf test.zip
By the way you should avoid to put .zip extension on a "gzipped" tar file. If you really want to make a zip, use 'zip' package instead.
I think it DID create it. The list is just the command being verbose (-v).