Questions that relate to managing and using compressed archives of files.
Questions tagged [archive]
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How can I see all versions of a package that are available in the archive?
Is there a way I can see all the versions that are in the archives that I have configured in sources.list. I can see the last version of each archive withapt-get policy, but how can I see them all?
Is there any way that this can also include PPA and…
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How to extract a zip file to a specific folder?
I have a zip file that I need to extract into another folder. When I set up extraction to said folder it says "permission denied". I've read here how to log into a terminal as root and superuser but can't find anything to help me.
I need to extract…
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"Parsing filters unsupported" error during extraction of RAR file
I have received an .rar which I wish to unpack as it contains something rather important to me that I need to really have now. However even though I can view the contents of the .rar archive in the Archive Manager, I am unable to extract it due to…
user364819
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How do I extract a specific file from a tar archive?
Is it possible to restore a single file from the .tar backup? I don't want to restore total backup. I just want to restore one single file from the backup.
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How can I open a .dmg file?
I've got a .dmg file, and I can't figure out how to open it. How can I open it?
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How to extract files from a split 7zip archive?
I downloaded a series of packages that all compress one thing. The files end in .0, .1, .2, etc.
The User Lists of these packages I downloaded say to use the file.bat to successfully extract, or to use 7zip. I do not understand how to do that with…
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What is the most robust archive format?
I'd like to back up some old folders with documents I only very rarely need to access. For that, I'd like to put them all in one archive. As this will be a backup, the format should suit that purpose. So, bottom line:
Which one is the most…
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Compress and split files in the file explorer
If you right click a file in Nautilus and select Compress, then you get a dialog where you can choose a compression format and a filename. If you click on Advanced, then there are settings to split and compress the file, but it's…
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How to mount a zip file as a file system?
Can I mount a zip (or other non-solid (so that accessing a file wouldn't decompress the whole archive) compressed archive format file) as a file system in Ubuntu?
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No archiving/compressing tool in Dolphin context menu (Kubuntu 15.10)
Ark is installed but there is no option to create an archive in the file manager's context menu.
There is a /usr/share/kservices5/ServiceMenus/ark_servicemenu.desktop.
user47206
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Command line archive manager / extracter
I keep forgetting all the corresponding extract commands for every compression format.
So I was thinking about writing a script that merely maps file extensions to the appropriate extract command. But I guess something like this already exists, I…
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How to move files older than X to another folder?
How do I move files older than 30 days from folder /storage/current/dbdumps/ to /storage/archive/dbdumps?
I tried:
find /storage/current/dbdumps/ -type f -mtime +30 -exec mv '{}' /storage/archive/dbdumps \;
but seems invalid in Ubuntu 11.04.
Amir Ashkenazi
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How to set 7z compression level using GUI in Ubuntu?
Archive Manager, or file-roller, doesn't seem to have the option to set the compression level for 7z files.
However, the windows client 7-zip has an option to do so using GUI -
On Ubuntu/Linux, one can set the compression level in the command…
Rohith Madhavan
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How do you view the contents of a .CAB file?
I'll trying to migrate away from Simply Accounting and need to somehow extract the contents of a Windows CAB file which is what Simply uses for backups.
What is the best way to open a CAB file on Ubuntu?
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How to quickly extract all kinds of archived files from command-line?
Many times I need to extract different kinds of archived files using commad-line. But not all the time I remember the exact command for any type of file archive. So, I have to waste time and search again. How can I avoid this?
Radu Rădeanu
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