Archiving Tools

1: 🖥️bzip2recover
2: 🖥️dar
3: 🖥️deb
4: 🖥️mpack
5: 🖥️tar
6: 🖥️unzip

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These tools are used to combine multiple files into a single archive file, making it easier to manage and transfer large sets of files. They do not compress the files but simply bundle them together. Archiving is often used for backup purposes and to maintain directory structures.

1 - 🖥️bzip2recover

➡️This is a command-line reference manual for commands and command combinations that you don’t use often enough to remember it. This cheatsheet explains the bzip2recover command with important options and switches using examples.

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# Extracts blocks from damaged .bz2 files
bzip2recover damaged_file_name

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2 - 🖥️dar

➡️This is a command-line reference manual for commands and command combinations that you don’t use often enough to remember it. This cheatsheet explains the dar command with important options and switches using examples.

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#  ██████╗  █████╗ ██████╗ 
#  ██╔══██╗██╔══██╗██╔══██╗
#  ██║  ██║███████║██████╔╝
#  ██║  ██║██╔══██║██╔══██╗
#  ██████╔╝██║  ██║██║  ██║
#  ╚═════╝ ╚═╝  ╚═╝╚═╝  ╚═╝

# dar
# (disk archive), command-line archiving tool intended as a replacement for tar

# Create an archive of everything below source_dir
dar -R source_dir -c archive

# Extract an entire archive to a destination
dar -x archive dest_dir

# List the files in an archive
dar -l archive

# Extract a specific file from an archive into the
# current directory
dar -x archive -g file

# multiple files
dar -x archive -g file1 -g file2 -g file3

# For troubleshooting:
# --dry-run
# --verbose

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3 - 🖥️deb

➡️This is a command-line reference manual for commands and command combinations that you don’t use often enough to remember it. This cheatsheet explains the deb command with important options and switches using examples.

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#                ██╔══██╗██╔════╝██╔══██╗
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#                ██████╔╝███████╗██████╔╝
#                ╚═════╝ ╚══════╝╚═════╝ 
                                        
                                       

# Extract contents of a .deb file
$ ar vx foo.deb    # -> data.tar.gz
$ tar xf data.tar.gz

#==============================##==============================#
# CMD deb						       #
#==============================##==============================#

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4 - 🖥️mpack

➡️This is a command-line reference manual for commands and command combinations that you don’t use often enough to remember it. This cheatsheet explains the mpack command with important options and switches using examples.

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#  ███╗   ███╗██████╗  █████╗  ██████╗██╗  ██╗
#  ████╗ ████║██╔══██╗██╔══██╗██╔════╝██║ ██╔╝
#  ██╔████╔██║██████╔╝███████║██║     █████╔╝ 
#  ██║╚██╔╝██║██╔═══╝ ██╔══██║██║     ██╔═██╗ 
#  ██║ ╚═╝ ██║██║     ██║  ██║╚██████╗██║  ██╗
#  ╚═╝     ╚═╝╚═╝     ╚═╝  ╚═╝ ╚═════╝╚═╝  ╚═╝

# send email with a file
mpack -s subject file [email protected]

# Unfortunately mpack does not recognize '-' as an alias for stdin. But the following work, and can easily be wrapped in an (shell) alias or a script:
mpack -s subject /dev/stdin [email protected] < file

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5 - 🖥️tar

➡️This is a command-line reference manual for commands and command combinations that you don’t use often enough to remember it. This cheatsheet explains the tar command with important options and switches using examples.

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#                ████████╗ █████╗ ██████╗ 
#                ╚══██╔══╝██╔══██╗██╔══██╗
#                   ██║   ███████║██████╔╝
#                   ██║   ██╔══██║██╔══██╗
#                   ██║   ██║  ██║██║  ██║
#                   ╚═╝   ╚═╝  ╚═╝╚═╝  ╚═╝
                                         
                

# To extract an uncompressed archive:
tar -xvf /path/to/foo.tar

# To create an uncompressed archive:
tar -cvf /path/to/foo.tar /path/to/foo/

# To extract a .gz archive:
tar -xzvf /path/to/foo.tgz

# To create a .gz archive:
tar -czvf /path/to/foo.tgz /path/to/foo/

# To list the content of an .gz archive:
tar -ztvf /path/to/foo.tgz

# To extract a .bz2 archive:
tar -xjvf /path/to/foo.tgz

# To create a .bz2 archive:
tar -cjvf /path/to/foo.tgz /path/to/foo/

# To list the content of an .bz2 archive:
tar -jtvf /path/to/foo.tgz

# To create a .gz archive and exclude all jpg,gif,... from the tgz
tar czvf /path/to/foo.tgz --exclude=\*.{jpg,gif,png,wmv,flv,tar.gz,zip} /path/to/foo/

# To use parallel (multi-threaded) implementation of compression algorithms:
tar -z ... -> tar -Ipigz ...
tar -j ... -> tar -Ipbzip2 ...
tar -J ... -> tar -Ipixz ...

#==============================#
# CMD TAR - Archive
#==============================##==============================#
tar czf bar.tar.gz foo
# tar and gzip directory foo

tar xzvf = Xtract Ze Vucking Files [said in thick German accent]
# Option Mnemonics

tar pcvvf Stash{.tar.xz,} |tee Stash.idx
# Create tar called Stash.tar.xz of Stash and use 2 v options to long list and write to idx file

tar -zcvf archive-name.tar.gz directory-name
# Compress files in a directory

tar -C . -cf - "$dirname" | ssh [email protected] "tar -C /www/ -xvf -; # other commands.."
# Open a subshell remotely - Suppose you want a script that create a tar, copy and unzip it on a server...
# A typical use is when you are working on a web site locally and you want to deploy it to a server.
# furthermore you can add whatever command you want, like chmod for your files permissions.. 

######################

tar command examples in Linux

# Unix tar command line options
# ---------------------------------------
# In this section of UNIX tar command tutorial, we will see some useful options of tar command in Linux and we will use this options in our example to understand the usage of this option along-with tar command.

    c -- create, for creating tar file
    v -- verbose, the display name of files including,excluding from tar command
    f -- following, used to point name of tar file to be created. it actually tells tar command that name of the file is "next" letter just after options.

    x -- extract, for extracting files from the tar file.
    t -- for viewing the content of tar file
    z -- zip, tells tar command that creates tar file using gzip.
    j –- another compressing option tells tar command to use bzip2 for compression
    r -- update or adds file or directory in already existed .tar file
    wildcards -- to specify patters in Unix tar command

# How to create tar archive or tar file in Unix
#-------------------------------------------------------
# tar command in unix linux examples
# Most of the use either WinZip or WinRAR in windows machine to zipping or creating archives of content so when we move to command line interface like Unix or Linux we struggle without those tools. UNIX tar command is similar to WinZip or WinRAR and you can use UNIX tar command to create both compressed or uncompressed (zipped) archives in UNIX.

# In this example of tar command, we will create tar file including all the files and directories or selected files and directories in Unix.

# here is our directory

ls -lrt
    total 0
    -r--r--r--  1 stock_trader Domain Users 0 Jul 15 11:42 equity
    drwxrwxrwx+ 1 stock_trader Domain Users 0 Jul 15 14:33 stocks/
    -r--r--r--  1 stock_trader Domain Users 0 Jul 15 15:30 currency

# it has two files and one directory. now we will create a tar file with all these contents.

tar -cvf trading.tar *
    currency
    equity
    stocks/
    stocks/online_stock_exchanges.txt

# You see unix tar command is creating tar file with name "trading" with contents shown above. just to review here "-c" is used to create tar file "v" is used to be verbose and "f" is used to tell tar file name. You can see the tar file here

ls -lrt
    -r--r--r--  1 stock_trader Domain Users   0 Jul 15 11:42 equity
    drwxrwxrwx+ 1 stock_trader Domain Users   0 Jul 15 14:33 stocks/
    -r--r--r--  1 stock_trader Domain Users   0 Jul 15 15:30 currency
    -rw-r--r--  1 stock_trader Domain Users 10K Jul 18 12:29 trading.tar

# How to view contents of tar file in Unix or Linux
#-------------------------------------------------------------
# In earlier example of tar command in Unix or Linux we have created a uncompressed tar file called "trading.tar" now in this example we will see the actual content of that tar file.

tar -tvf trading.tar
    -r--r--r-- stock_trader/Domain Users 0 2011-07-15 15:30 currency
    -r--r--r-- stock_trader/Domain Users 0 2011-07-15 11:42 equity
    drwxrwxrwx stock_trader/Domain Users 0 2011-07-15 14:33 stocks/
    -rwxrwxrwx stock_trader/Domain Users 0 2011-07-15 14:33 stocks/online_stock_exchanges.txt

# here option "t" is used to display content of tar file in unix while options "v" and "f" are for "verbose" and "following". now you can clearly see that all the files which we wanted to be included in tar file are there.

# How to extract contents from a tar file in Unix
#-----------------------------------------------------------
# In this example of unix tar command we will see how to extract files or directories from a tar file in unix or Linux. We will use same trading.tar file created in earlier example. In this example we will create a directory "trading" and extract contents of trading.tar on that directory.

ls -lrt
    total 12K
    -rw-r--r-- 1 stock_trader Domain Users 10K Jul 18 12:37 trading.tar

# Now the directory is empty just trading.tar file

tar -xvf trading.tar
    currency
    equity
    stocks/
    stocks/online_stock_exchanges.txt

# This unix tar command will extract content of trading.tar in current directory. "x" is used for extracting. "v" is again for verbose and optional parameter in all our example.

ls -lrt
    -r--r--r--  1 stock_trader Domain Users   0 Jul 15 11:42 equity
    drwxr-xr-x+ 1 stock_trader Domain Users   0 Jul 15 14:33 stocks/
    -r--r--r--  1 stock_trader Domain Users   0 Jul 15 15:30 currency
    -rw-r--r--  1 stock_trader Domain Users 10K Jul 18 12:37 trading.tar

# Now you can see that all the files and directories which were included in tar file (stocks, equity and currency) has been extracted successfully.

# How to create tar file in Unix with just specified contents
#-------------------------------------------------------------------------
#In above example of tar command in unix we have created tar file with all the contents available in current directory but we can also create tar file with selective content as shown in above example.

# Now in our current directory we have both files and directories and we just want to include two files equity and currency in our tar file.

ls -lrt
    -r--r--r--  1 stock_trader Domain Users   0 Jul 15 11:42 equity
    drwxrwxrwx+ 1 stock_trader Domain Users   0 Jul 15 14:33 stocks/
    -r--r--r--  1 stock_trader Domain Users   0 Jul 15 15:30 currency
    -rw-r--r--  1 stock_trader Domain Users 10K Jul 18 12:29 trading.tar
    drwxr-xr-x+ 1 stock_trader Domain Users   0 Jul 18 12:46 new/

tar -cvf equitytrading.tar equity currency
    equity
    currency

# you see only two files equity and currency are included in our tar file.

# How to create compressed tar file using gzip in Unix
#------------------------------------------------------------------
# In our previous example of Linux tar command we have created uncompressed tar file but most of the time we also need to create compressed tar file using gzip or bzip2. In this example of tar command in Linux we will learn about creating tar file using gzip.

tar -zcvf trading.tgz *
    currency
    equity
    stocks/
    stocks/online_stock_exchanges.txt

# you see creating tar file with gzip is very easy just use "-z" option and it will crate a gzip tar. .tgz or tar.gz extension is used to denote tar file with gzip. size of a compressed tar file is far less than uncompressed one.

ls -lrt
    -r--r--r--  1 stock_trader Domain Users   0 Jul 15 11:42 equity
    drwxrwxrwx+ 1 stock_trader Domain Users   0 Jul 15 14:33 stocks/
    -r--r--r--  1 stock_trader Domain Users   0 Jul 15 15:30 currency
    -rw-r--r--  1 stock_trader Domain Users 219 Jul 18 13:01 trading.tgz

# you can also view contents of gzip tar file by using earlier command in combination of "z" option and same is true for extracting content from gzip tar. below examples of unix tar command will show how to view contents of .tgz or .tar.gz file in unix.

tar -ztvf trading.tgz
    -r--r--r-- stock_trader/Domain Users 0 2011-07-15 15:30 currency
    -r--r--r-- stock_trader/Domain Users 0 2011-07-15 11:42 equity
    drwxrwxrwx stock_trader/Domain Users 0 2011-07-15 14:33 stocks/
    -rwxrwxrwx stock_trader/Domain Users 0 2011-07-15 14:33 stocks/online_stock_exchanges.txt

# Similarly we can extract contents from a .tgz or .tar.gz file as shown in below example of unix tar command :

tar -zxvf trading.tgz
    currency
    equity
    stocks/
    stocks/online_stock_exchanges.txt

ls -lrt
    -r--r--r--  1 stock_trader Domain Users   0 Jul 15 11:42 equity
    drwxr-xr-x+ 1 stock_trader Domain Users   0 Jul 15 14:33 stocks/
    -r--r--r--  1 stock_trader Domain Users   0 Jul 15 15:30 currency
    -rw-r--r--  1 stock_trader Domain Users 219 Jul 18 13:07 trading.tgz

# How to create compressed tar file using bzip2 in Unix
#--------------------------------------------------------------------
# bzip2 is another compression option we have which we can use with unix tar command. its exactly similar with our earlier option of compressing using gzip but instead of "z" option we need to use "j" tar option to create bzip2 file as shown in below example of tar command in unix.

tar -jcvf trading.tar.bz2 *
    currency
    equity
    stocks/
    stocks/online_stock_exchanges.txt

ls -lrt trading.tar.bz2
    -rw-r--r--  1 stock_trader Domain Users 593 Jul 18 13:11 trading.tar.bz2

# .tar.bz2 is used to denote a tar file with bzip2 compression. for viewing contents of bzip2 tar file and extracting content we can use as shown in example of UNIX tar command with gzip compression, just replace "-z" with "-j" for bzip2.

# How to extract a particular file form .tar, .tar.gz or .tar.bzip2
#----------------------------------------------------------------------------
# In previous examples of extracting contetns from tar file we have extracted everything. sometime we just need a specific file from tar file. in this example of unix tar command we will extract a particular file from a tar archive.

tar -jxvf trading.tar.bz2 equity
    equity

# its simple just specify name of file in this case its "equity". if your tar file is gzip one then use "-z" that is it. You can also use combination of grep and find command with tar to get more dynamic use.

# How to extract group of file or directory from form .tar, .tar.gz or .tar.bzip2 in UNIX
#---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
# you can extract a group of file form .tar, .tar.gz or .tar.bzip2 in Unix by specifying a matching pattern and using option "--wildcards". let us show an example of tar command in unix with --wildcards

tar -jxvf trading.tar.bz2 --wildcards "s*"
    stocks/
    stocks/online_stock_exchanges.txt

In above example of UNIX tar command we are extracting all files or directory which names starts with "s".

# How to update existing tar file in Linux
#----------------------------------------------
# You can also update or append new files in already created tar file. option"-r" is used for that. Let’s see an example of updatating tar file using tar command in UNIX:

tar -cvf sample.tar equity currency
    equity
    currency

tar -rvf sample.tar gold
    gold

tar -tvf sample.tar
    -r--r--r-- stock_trader/Domain Users 0 2011-07-15 11:42 equity
    -r--r--r-- stock_trader/Domain Users 221 2011-07-18 13:10 currency
    -rw-r--r-- stock_trader/Domain Users   0 2011-07-18 13:30 gold

# Apparently can not update compressed archives.if you try to do you will get error "tar: Cannot update compressed archives"

# Calculating size of tar file in UNIX
#-------------------------------------------
#Some time its useful to know the size of tar file before creating it and you can get it by using unix tar command as shown in below example:

tar -cf - * | wc -c
    20480

# Size shown here is in KB and you can also calculate size for compressed tar file by using "z" for gzip and "j" for bzip2

tar Jpcvvf Stash{.tar.xz,} |tee Stash.idx 
# Create(c) tar called (f) Stash.tar.xz of Stash with xz compression (J) and use 2 v options to long list and write to idx file. Brace expansion creates the tar file arg and the directory arg.

tar ztvf large.tar.gz | awk '{s+=$3}END{print s}' 
# Use awk to sum up the sizes of the files inside a compressed archive file. Unfortunately you can't use gzip -l on files where the uncompressed data is greater than 4GB.

#########################

{ find /one; find /two; } | tar zcvf one-and-two.tar.gz -T - 
# You can use a bracketed command to pipe two find outputs into one tar.

# Create an encrypted tar file with openssl
tar c paths_to_files_and_dirs | gzip -c | openssl des3 > encrypted.tar.gz
# Explanation: Decrypt with: openssl des3 -d < encrypted.tar.gz | tar zx

# Create .tar.bz2
tar -cvjf output.tar.bz2 ./

# List contents of tar file
tar --list -f items.tar

tar tvf backup.tar | grep -v "/$" | wc -l  
# Count the number of files, but not directories, stored in a tar file.

#==============================##==============================#
# CMD TAR - Archive
#==============================##==============================#

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6 - 🖥️unzip

➡️This is a command-line reference manual for commands and command combinations that you don’t use often enough to remember it. This cheatsheet explains the unzip command with important options and switches using examples.

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# Extract archive
unzip archive.zip

# Test integrity of archive
unzip -tq archive.zip

# List files and directories in a file
unzip -l archive.zip

# Clean up the garbage an accidental unzipping makes - List out all the names from the zip file and pass it to xargs utility to delete each one of them
unzip -Z -1 <filename.zip> | xargs -I{} rm -v {}

#==============================##==============================#
# CMD UNZIP						       #
#==============================##==============================#

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