tar extract all files from folder inside archive - linux

Let's say I have a tar archive with the following structure:
"NAME/FOLDER/FILES"
e.g.
tarfolder.tar.gz/test123/[file1,file2,filex]
Now I wan't to extract all files from the folder test123 without extracting the "test123" folder itself. What's the command to do so?


Try:
tar -zxfv tarfolder.tar.gz test123/ --strip-components=1
Works for me.


Use the tar zxvf option, like this:
tar -zxvf tarfolder.tar.gz test123/file1

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how to create tar file so that files at placed at root folder of tar.gz file

I need to create targ.gz file and contents of file should be at root folder
say. I want angle and Simple files at root of tarfile shown at bottom. Any suggestions. I tried as below but extra folder is created at root
tar -zcvf tarfile.tar.gz -C /example/tarFile .
./
./angle.txt
./Simple.jar
tar -zcvf tarfile.tar.gz -C /example/tarFile .
./angle.txt
./Simple.jar

Please try this
tar -czvf tarfile.tar.gz /example/tarFile
after creating tar file use cp or mv command to move anywhere you want.

how to tar all files in a directory and move that tar to another directory

So I have 2 directors A and B. I want to tar all the files in A and have the .tar file be sent to directory B. How can i do this?
I have tried
sudo tar -C /home/mine/A/ -cvf home/mine/B/test.tar
tar: Cowardly refusing to create an empty archive

tar -cvf /home/mine/B/test.tar /home/mine/A/
works fine for me.

Unzip a single file in a tbz archive

I have the following archived directory:
itunes20140618.tbz
I want to extract single file from it called:
itunes20140618/video
How would I do this?
So far, I am doing
$ bzip2 -d /tmp/itunes20140618.tbz
But it seems to create a tar directory of everything. How would I extract just the single video file?

There are a few different versions of tar around, but on my machine I can do this:
tar xjf archive.tbz filename
To extract filename from archive.
If that doesn't work you can use:
bzip2 -dc archive.tbz | tar xvf - filename
Which uses bzip2 to extract to stdout and then pipe to tar.
In both cases you can replace the x option with t to get a list of files. Eg:
tar tjf archive.tbz

You can use the tar command and pass the path of the desired file or folder as an argument to it:
tar xjf test.tbz /path/to/file/in/archive

Tarring files exclude the path before the folder i want to tar

Im trying to tar a set of subfolders and then tar its parent folder afterwards via a ruby script.
The structure is as follows:
/x/y/z/ParentFolder/Subfolder1
/x/y/z/ParentFolder/Subfolder2
/x/y/z/ParentFolder/Subfolder3
/x/y/z/ParentFolder/Subfolder4
So what i want to end up with is Subfolder1.tar.gz,Subfolder2.tar.gz,Subfolder3.tar.gz,Subfolder4.tar.gz all contained in ParentFolder.tar.gz.
My problem at the moment is that im able to tar the parent folder with its subfolders but it structure remains as /x/y/z/ParentFolder/SubFolder1----4
tarParentFolder = "tar -zcvf /x/y/z/ParentFolder.tar.gz /x/y/z/ParentFolder 2>/dev/null"
`#{tarParentFolder}`
I have searched around but cannot seem to find a solution to this,
Anybody got any ideas?
Thanks

The answer to how to get the path to be relative to the right path is to use the -C tar option. That's a capital C. The parameter you pass is the directory from which you want the tar to start relative.
so you would do:
tar -zcvf /x/y/z/ParentFolder.tar.gz -C /x/y/z ParentFolder
But ... you should also probably think twice about putting tars in tars. You should be fine just tarring up the containing dir.

For creating tar archives containing multiple files/folders use this:
$ mkdir f1 f2
$ tar -czf tar.tgz f1 f2 # creates the tar
$ tar -tzf tar.tgz # lists tar contents
f1/
f2/
f3/
$
So you should write something like:
tar -zcvf /x/y/z/ParentFolder.tar.gz /x/y/z/Subfolder{1,2,3,4}

How do I tar a directory without retaining the directory structure?

I'm working on a backup script and want to tar up a file directory:
tar czf ~/backup.tgz /home/username/drupal/sites/default/files
This tars it up, but when I untar the resulting file, it includes the full file structure: the files are in home/username/drupal/sites/default/files.
Is there a way to exclude the parent directories, so that the resulting tar just knows about the last directory (files)?

Use the --directory option:
tar czf ~/backup.tgz --directory=/home/username/drupal/sites/default files

Hi I've a better solution when enter in the specified directory it's impossible (Makefiles,etc)
tar -cjvf files.tar.bz2 -C directory/contents/to/be/compressed .
Do not forget the dot (.) at the end !!

cd /home/username/drupal/sites/default/files
tar czf ~/backup.tgz *

Create a tar archive
tar czf $sourcedir/$backup_dir.tar --directory=$sourcedir WEB-INF en
Un-tar files on a local machine
tar -xvf $deploydir/med365/$backup_dir.tar -C $deploydir/med365/
Upload to a server
scp -r -i $privatekey $sourcedir/$backup_dir.tar $server:$deploydir/med365/
echo "File uploaded.. deployment folders"
Un-tar on server
ssh -i $privatekey $server tar -xvf $deploydir/med365/$backup_dir.tar -C $deploydir/med365/

To gunzip all txt (*.txt) files from /home/myuser/workspace/zip_from/
to /home/myuser/workspace/zip_to/ without directory structure of source files use following command:
tar -P -cvzf /home/myuser/workspace/zip_to/mydoc.tar.gz --directory="/home/myuser/workspace/zip_from/" *.txt

If you want to tar files while keeping the structure but ignore it partially or completely when extracting, use the --strip-components argument when extracting.
In this case, where the full path is /home/username/drupal/sites/default/files, the following command would extract the tar.gz content without the full parent directory structure, keeping only the last directory of the path (e.g. files/file1).
tar -xzv --strip-components=5 -f backup.tgz
I've found this tip on https://www.baeldung.com/linux/tar-archive-without-directory-structure#5-using-the---strip-components-option.

To build on nbt's and MaikoID's solutions:
tar -czf destination.tar.gz -C source/directory $(ls source/directory)
This solution:
Includes all files and folders in the directory
Does not include any of the directory structure (or .) in the final product
Does not require you to change directories.
However, it requires the directory to be given twice, so it may be most useful in another script. It may also be less efficient if there are a lot of files/folders in source/directory. Adjust the subcommand as necessary.
So for instance for the following structure:
|- source
| |- one
| `- two
`- working
the following command:
working$ tar -czf destination.tar.gz -C ../source $(ls ../source)
will produce destination.tar.gz where both one and two (and sub-files/-folders) are the first items.

This worked for me:
gzip -dc "<your_file>.tgz" | tar x -C <location>

For me -C or --directory did not work, I use this
cd source/directory/or/file
tar -cvzf destination/packaged-app.tgz *.jar
# this will put your current directory to what it previously was
cd -

Kindly use the below command to generate tar file without directory structure
tar -C <directoryPath> -cvzf <Path of the tar.gz file> filename1 filename2... filename N
eg:
tar -C /home/project/files -cvzf /home/project/files/test.tar.gz text1.txt text2.txt

tar -Cczf ~/backup.tgz /home/username/drupal/sites/default/files
-C does the cd for you

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