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# tar
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# GNU version of the tar archiving utility
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# An approach to backing up the current user's HOME, using tar(1) and Gzip
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# compression. Permissions (modes) will be preserved. The filename format will
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# be: UID:GID_DATE.tgz
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#
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# Replace 'DEVICE' with whichever device is applicable to you, but note that it
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# must be in the '/media/USER' (where USER is the username) directory, else
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# this won't work, unless you edit the formatting section of `printf`.
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tar -czvpf "$(printf '/media/%s/%s/%d:%d_%(%F)T.tgz' "$USER" 'DEVICE' ${UID:-`id -u`} ${GID:-`id -g`} -1)" "$HOME"
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# Delete file 'xdm' from the archive given to the `-f` flag. This only works on
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# non-compressed archives, unfortunately, but those can always be uncompressed
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# first, then altered with the `--delete` flag, after which you can recompress.
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tar --delete -f xdm_edited.tar.gz xdm
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# Extract the contents of the given archive (which is not compressed) to the
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# destination given to the `-C` flag; not many seem to know of this flag.
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#
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# If a destination (path given to `-C`) is not provided, the CWD will be used.
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tar -C /mnt -xvf Tarball.tar
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