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    Question - how to use tar to compress multiple top level folders recursively into discrete zip files

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    • DustinB3403D
      DustinB3403
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      Does it matter, the tar process is tar?

      But osx is likely where this would be run from.

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      • scottalanmillerS
        scottalanmiller
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        Then the "simple way" with some semi-obvious assumptions...

        for i in $(ls); do tar -czvf $i.tgz $i; done
        
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        • scottalanmillerS
          scottalanmiller @DustinB3403
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          @DustinB3403 said in Question - how to use tar to compress multiple top level folders recursively into discrete zip files:

          Does it matter, the tar process is tar?

          But osx is likely where this would be run from.

          OS does not, shell does.

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          • DustinB3403D
            DustinB3403 @scottalanmiller
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            @scottalanmiller said in Question - how to use tar to compress multiple top level folders recursively into discrete zip files:

            Assuming BASH for launching tar...

            Then the "complex way"...

            for i in compress compress1 compress2; do tar -czvf $i.tgz $i; done
            

            That I think would require me to fill out the tar command on a forever ongoing process. Hoping to be able to just target the --- folder root for.

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            • scottalanmillerS
              scottalanmiller
              last edited by

              Or another way....

              for i in $(ls -r | grep compress); do tar -czvf $i.tgz $i; done
              
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              • scottalanmillerS
                scottalanmiller @DustinB3403
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                @DustinB3403 said in Question - how to use tar to compress multiple top level folders recursively into discrete zip files:

                @scottalanmiller said in Question - how to use tar to compress multiple top level folders recursively into discrete zip files:

                Assuming BASH for launching tar...

                Then the "complex way"...

                for i in compress compress1 compress2; do tar -czvf $i.tgz $i; done
                

                That I think would require me to fill out the tar command on a forever ongoing process. Hoping to be able to just target the --- folder root for.

                Should be easy to do, you just have to define what makes the target folder obviously the target and write the bit in the $() to return that and away you go.

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                  JasGot @DustinB3403
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                  @DustinB3403 said in Question - how to use tar to compress multiple top level folders recursively into discrete zip files:

                  Does it matter, the tar process is tar?

                  But osx is likely where this would be run from.

                  Because I was going to write a cmd for loop for you if it were Win, and I was going to pass if it were *nix.

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                  • DustinB3403D
                    DustinB3403
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                    Well of the --- folder never changes, but the content beneath it does, that would be what I would target.

                    I'm trying to resolve our user base breaking our backups by have file paths longer than 255 characters, which the simplest way I can think of is to just compress everything in --- folder.

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                    • scottalanmillerS
                      scottalanmiller @JasGot
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                      @JasGot said in Question - how to use tar to compress multiple top level folders recursively into discrete zip files:

                      @DustinB3403 said in Question - how to use tar to compress multiple top level folders recursively into discrete zip files:

                      Does it matter, the tar process is tar?

                      But osx is likely where this would be run from.

                      Because I was going to write a cmd for loop for you if it were Win, and I was going to pass if it were *nix.

                      It's the shell, not the OS, that determines the looping structure. PowerShell on Linux is the same as on Windows. Bash on Windows is the same as on Linux. 🙂

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                      • ObsolesceO
                        Obsolesce
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                        I don't follow your - - - naming scheme. Can you explain differently?

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                        • DustinB3403D
                          DustinB3403 @Obsolesce
                          last edited by

                          @Obsolesce said in Question - how to use tar to compress multiple top level folders recursively into discrete zip files:

                          I don't follow your - - - naming scheme. Can you explain differently?

                          Yeah the spacing didn't copy over from mobile.

                          Essentially it's

                          Root folder

                          • sub folder
                            • child folder
                          • different sub folder from root
                            • child folder
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                          • DustinB3403D
                            DustinB3403
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                            Okay so this is the next annoyance with this, I am getting the entire parent folder up until the target folder in the compressed file.

                            IE: compressed-folder.tar contains

                            • Share Name
                              • Sub-Parent-Folder
                                • Next-Level-Parent-Folder
                                  • Target-Folder
                                    . . . . all of the files and sub-folders

                            Anyway to have tar just target the Target-Folder that is on an SMB share, compress that specifically (and it's children to a single file) so I can then move that compressed file without all of the overhead folder structure?

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                            • DustinB3403D
                              DustinB3403
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                              I suppose I could mount each and every Target-Folder but that seems completely counter intuitive and a massive effort. . .

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                              • ObsolesceO
                                Obsolesce @DustinB3403
                                last edited by

                                @DustinB3403 said in Question - how to use tar to compress multiple top level folders recursively into discrete zip files:

                                Okay so this is the next annoyance with this, I am getting the entire parent folder up until the target folder in the compressed file.

                                IE: compressed-folder.tar contains

                                • Share Name
                                  • Sub-Parent-Folder
                                    • Next-Level-Parent-Folder
                                      • Target-Folder
                                        . . . . all of the files and sub-folders

                                Anyway to have tar just target the Target-Folder that is on an SMB share, compress that specifically (and it's children to a single file) so I can then move that compressed file without all of the overhead folder structure?

                                Why not specify /path/to/targetfolder/

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                                • DustinB3403D
                                  DustinB3403 @Obsolesce
                                  last edited by DustinB3403

                                  @Obsolesce said in Question - how to use tar to compress multiple top level folders recursively into discrete zip files:

                                  Why not specify /path/to/targetfolder/

                                  I'm not following what you mean.

                                  How I'm currently doing this is tar -zcvf Compressed.zip /Volumes/Parent/Child/Target-folder/

                                  Edit:

                                  And I get everything in the path /Volumes/Parent/Child/Target-folder/ so the compressed file, when decompressed is /Volumes/Parent/Child/Target-Folder/some-stuff

                                  What I want is just Target-Folder and it's contents, not the parent folder path.

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                                  • DustinB3403D
                                    DustinB3403
                                    last edited by

                                    Supposedly tar -C /Volumes/Parent/Child/Target-folder -cvf Compressed.zip SelectedDirectory works. . . let me test that.

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                                    • DustinB3403D
                                      DustinB3403 @DustinB3403
                                      last edited by

                                      @DustinB3403 said in Question - how to use tar to compress multiple top level folders recursively into discrete zip files:

                                      Supposedly tar -C /Volumes/Parent/Child/Target-folder -cvf Compressed.zip SelectedDirectory works. . . let me test that.

                                      Okay so that does work, just is a pain in the rear to have to do manually.

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