Tar compare or diff command line

tar

What is wrong with this?

tar --diff --gunzip --file=/media/disk/filename.tgz

This is GNU tar 1.23 on Ubuntu. The complaint is gzip:stdin:input/output error.

The following just hangs and there is no apparent disk seek activity.

tar --diff fz /media/disk/filename.tgz
tar --compare fz /media/disk/filename.tgz
tar -d vfz /media/disk/filename.tgz

Best Answer

  • It has to be --gzip or -z, but not gunzip.

    Also, in your second code block. If you give the f argument, there has to follow the file:

    tar --diff zf /media/disk/filename.tgz
tar --compare zf /media/disk/filename.tgz
tar -d vzf /media/disk/filename.tgz

    All of them work. Notice that I moved the f argument right before the filename.

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