linux - Why do people use tarballs? - Stack Overflow An easier method for developers is to create a tarball Then the burden of installation is shared by the end-user They must: download the tarball (usually ending in tar gz) decompress source code to a directory compile the source code (unheard of in Windows for Profit world)
archive - How do I tar a directory of files and folders without . . . Use the -C switch of tar: tar -czvf my_directory tar gz -C my_directory The -C my_directory tells tar to change the current directory to my_directory, and then means "add the entire current directory" (including hidden files and sub-directories) Make sure you do -C my_directory before you do or else you'll get the files in the current directory Warning: you'll get entries as file
bitbake - Why doesnt Yocto generate the tarball when BB_GENERATE . . . But when I run Bitbake (I using command bitbake --runall fetch) it completes, but I don't get a tarball for the new package I added I have looked for this tarball in the poky-downloads folder (the folder I would normally rsync to the mirror server), but it doesn't appear to be there Am I missing a configuration or something?
How to unpack a tarball with npm to get the package. json file out I have ran the npm pack command to pack the project (a react app) into a tarball I can see inside it that the package json still exists, but when i run npm install on the tarball then i only get a package-lock json file out which means i can't run things like npm start that is defined in the package json
What is the difference between tar and zip? - Stack Overflow The caveat of a tar gz is that you must decompress the whole archive to access files contained therein (as the files are within the tarball); the advantage is that the compression can take advantage of similarities among the files (as it compresses the whole tarball)
Search a directory of tarballs for a file? - Stack Overflow In one of those tarballs is a license key from an engineer that used to work here How can I search across each of the tarballs in the directory for a specific file? Something similar to find -name some_file? I know I can search a single tarball with tar -jtvf file tar bz2 I am hoping for something a bit broader in scope