A lot of times I have to recursively compress a bunch of files and folders so I can ftp them to my local for perusal.<\/p>\n
When I compress, I do this:<\/p>\n
And that gives me a tar file of all the zipped stuff in localfolder.<\/p>\n To decompress it on the command line I do this: But usually I am doing this in Windows with 7-Zip or Iceows in a GUI.<\/p>\n A little more tricky thing to do is to EXCLUDE something. Let’s say you have a folder tree like below:<\/p>\n But you want to exclude folder2. The trick is to use full pathnames<\/strong> in the exclusion command or the exlclude won’t work:<\/p>\n A lot of times I have to recursively compress a bunch of files and folders so I can ftp them to my local for perusal. When I compress, I do this: tar -cvzf localfolder.tar.gz localfolder And that gives me a tar file of all the zipped stuff in localfolder. To decompress it on the command […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/10kdev.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/10kdev.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/10kdev.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/10kdev.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/10kdev.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=340"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/10kdev.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":469,"href":"http:\/\/10kdev.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340\/revisions\/469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/10kdev.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/10kdev.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/10kdev.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\ntar -cvzf localfolder.tar.gz localfolder
\n<\/code><\/p>\n
\n
\ntar -xvzf localfolder.tar.gz
\n<\/code><\/p>\n
\n\/etc\/localfolder
\n--|folder1
\n--|folder2
\n--|folder3
\n<\/code><\/p>\n
\ntar -cvzf localfolder.tar.gz \/etc\/localfolder --exclude=\"\/etc\/localfolder\/folder2\"
\nMultiple Exlcudes:
\ntar -cvzf localfolder.tar.gz \/etc\/localfolder --exclude=\"\/etc\/localfolder\/folder1\" --exclude=\"\/etc\/localfolder\/folder2\"
\nWith GNU tar, swap the exclude and the source directory:
\ntar -cvzf localfolder.tar.gz --exclude=\"\/etc\/localfolder\/folder2\" \/etc\/localfolder
\n<\/code><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"