Posts tagged with 'tar'
Using tar with Your Favorite Compression
Here's a fun one! You may already know that tarball is a pure archive format, and that any compression is applied to the whole archive as a unit. That is to say that compression is not actually applied at the file level, but to the entire archive. Th ... read more →
Copying and Unarchiving From a Server Without a Temp File
Sometimes I want to copy files from a remote machine--usually a server I control. Easy; just use scp, right? Well, today I had a subtly different twist to the usual problem. I needed to transfer a ~100GB tarball to my local machine, and I really want ... read more →