So I am trying to install Greyhole onto my Computer to make it into a Home Server. So I run the command 'tar zxf greyhole-0.14.0.tar.gz &amp;&amp; rm -f greyhole-0.14.0.tar.gz' but when I run it I get back this message from the terminal 'tar (child): greyhole-0.14.0.tar.gz: Cannot open: No such file or directory tar (child): Error is not recoverable: exiting now tar: Child returned status 2 tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now' and I do not know how to fix it. If there is someone who installed Greyhole and had this issue could you let me know what you did to fix it. Thank you!
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I am not able to extract tar file  Command  tar -xvfz node_archive.tar.gz khem  Error   show error tar:z: can't open :No such file or directory tar: Error is not recoverable : Exiting now
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I can no longer log in to my system after running this command :  sudo chown -R &amp;USER: $HOME   as ROOT because I couldn't access  a certain file.   Now I can't log in again.
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Well, I have accidentally deleted my Ubuntu drive. I just want to recover all the contents of /home.   Is there a way to do it? I referred to , where I need to specify the extensions of files. And in my case, I don't know actual extensions. So, is there any utility which can let me recover my /home folder alone?  I have not even formatted that drive or touched it at all. So no write has been done on that drive.  If you have suggestions on how to recover, please tell me.
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I am receiving this error message when I'm trying to uncompress a .tgz archive:  $ tar -zxvf OVM_EL5U3_X86_EBIZ12.1.1_DB_VIS_PVM.tgz.1 gzip: stdin: not in gzip format tar: Child returned status 1 tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now   As you can see, the file name ends with .tgz.1.  When the file name is .tgz.0 it will be uncompressed with no error by the tar -zxvf command.
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For some reason my Steam just broke today after working perfectly since I installed it a few days ago.  It was originally installed via the deb from the Steam site. So I uninstalled that using the Ubuntu Software Center. Then I installed steam-launcher. When I run it from the menu it does nothing at all. When I go through terminal it gives this message, no error:  $ steam/usr/bin/steam:  line 196: /home/andrew/.local/share/Steam/steam.sh: Success   So I purge-removed it and removed the .steams directory from my home directory but on re-installation its the same story.  I am using Xubuntu 12.10 64bit.  It appears that steam .local/share/Steam/steam.sh is blank. What is it meant to have in it? I am so confused with how reinstalling it doesn't fix it.
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I am trying to make a crontab that makes a new .tar file each minute every business day by using the following code:  */1 * * * 1,2,3,4,5 tar -cf /home/user/Archiv/$(date +"%Y%m%d%H%M").tar /home/user/Textverarbeitung/ -P   This doesn't work. Why?
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I have been googling how to use the terminal in Ubuntu 14.04. Many years ago, I could find my way around DOS,  albeit I'm a bit rusty. It seems that it's basically similar but when I try to change directory all I get is no such file or directory. This happens on every cd command I tried.  I even followed youtube videos and still no joy. Is there an app I need to install first? I want to install tarz files I have downloaded but I still want to be able to use the terminal for other things.
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Here in the screen shot, there is a window and terminal open.    I am running on Ubuntu 10.04(kernel 2.6) LTS 64bit LiveCD session, and trying to run testDisk to recover my another formatted partition.  But, whenever I run the   sudo testdisk_static   command, it says, command not found!  As you can see in the picture, this file(testdisk_static) exists. if i double click it nothing happens. Its not running from terminal either.  Why this file doesn't run? What to do in this situation?
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I want to install the latest Python tarball on Ubuntu, downloaded from .  Is this is a correct way to install?  ./configure make make install   If not, how do I do that?
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I created yesterday a drive image using GZip.  I opened the 51.3 GiB file named ssd.img.gz to see one icon thats a package of 3.9 GiB, yes, thats THree point Nine Gigabytes in size and has the name of the image as ssd.img  That does not seem right to me, has the image creation worked or not?  Yes the drives have data and an operating system on it.  Should I have used cat instead? only I did and it kept on saying that it had nothing to do.  Would using the | zip instead be a better option?    ** EDIT **  The command used was:  mark@zotac:~$ sudo -l Enter password:&lt;entered password to get in to root&gt; root@zotac:~# dd if=/dev/sda | gzip -c &gt; "/media/mark/Seagate External Drive/ssd.img.gz   the terminal spent the best part of 10 Hours at building the image, something in itself that I also found suspect, why so log when copying the files to a folder that I wanted, some 40GiB took 45 minutes...  The source drive /dev/sda had no mounted partitions.     ** EDIT **  Just to clarify, I am trying to make an image of the drive to back up later if things go wrong with a repair, the drive itself needs to be a file on a drive as the target drive partition is using almost all of the drive, the partitions can't be resized on it without formatting it and I am not about to lose 1.4TB of data.   So the dd if=/dev/sda of=/&lt;target&gt; isn't what I need, what I do need is an image of the drive that I can restore the image from to the drive should the repair go wrong.  So what command do I use, dd or cat? Why does | zip keep telling me it has nothing to do when used with cat but no error or warning with dd
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I thought tar archive.tar /users/mylocation would work, but it doesn't. How can I do that?
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I'd just like to know why if I "tar -czf" a file/directory, osx adds a:  ._  for each file? I see these when I untar in linux. Or when I work with the uncompressed project in eclipse as it doesn't like them at all. I use 10.7.5.
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I was trying to test out this buggy/new tool to see how it works, and it prompted me to choose a directory to use for stuff I am doing. From the directory ~/Code/indep, I typed in ~/Code/indep/tarbell. (Stupid, I could have just typed 'tarbell', but whatever.) It prompted me to create it because it didn't exist, I said yes. When I inspected the contents of this directory, here is what I see:  brian@navis:~/Code/indep$ ls ~ project1 project2 project3 ...   I thought "oh, weird, it created a symlink to ~". However:  brian@navis:~/Code/indep$ file ./~ ./~: directory   file thinks it's a directory.   brian@navis:~/Code/indep$ ls -l drwxr-xr-x 3 brian brian 4096 Nov  8 16:50 ~ drwxr-xr-x 8 brian brian 4096 Oct 14 18:42 project1 drwxr-xr-x 3 brian brian 4096 Sep 10 21:15 project2 drwxr-xr-x 5 brian brian 4096 Oct 14 19:33 project3 ...   And so does ls -l.   I thought, "oh, ... is it a hard link? I've never really used those." But I tried to reproduce, and it's impossible to create a hard link to a directory. So... I guess I've narrowed this down to things I don't understand. Did I mount my home directory in this other directory somehow?   My main goal at this point is to remove the reference to my home directory in this folder (rm doesn't seem like the answer), but I'm also curious to know what's going on.  EDIT:   In retrospect, I understand exactly what happened. As was answered below, the program created a directory called "~" inside my current directory. The only really obfuscating fact about this is that I wasn't consistent with how I was actually viewing what the directory was. Sometimes I referred to it as  "~" and sometimes as "./~". It's only if you do the latter that you can actually see what's going on, but until I understood this, I was conflating what I was seeing from using the absolute path of "~" to to what was in fact a local directory.
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I've downloaded a tar.gz for the game Solar 2, and extracted it. Frustratingly, there is no configure file for it, nor is there an INSTALL or a README file. If I skip straight to the "make" command, it tells me there's no targets specified and no makefile found. I'm also having the same problem with another game I've downloaded, NightSky.  Not quite sure how to proceed. I can't find any official documentation or anyone else having these problems. Any suggestions?
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I am migrating my home directory from an old system to a new one, and the tarball I made contains everything, including hidden files like .bashrc. However, when I move the contents of the unpacked tarball (which are in /tmp) to my new home directory, the hidden files do not copy (mv /tmp/home/rcook/* /home/rcook/). How can I get mv to move them?  Actually, I think the problem is not with mv, but with bash's globbing. If I do this:  mkdir a mkdir b touch a/.foo touch a/bar mv a/* b/ ls -a a/ b/   I see this:  a/: .  ..  .foo  b/: .  ..  bar   a/.foo did not move. So how can I get the * wildcard to find hidden files?  Yes, I suppose I could decompress the tarball directly into my home directory, but the tarball decompresses into home/rcook/..., and I want to be sure I overwrite the new .bashrc, etc. with the old, customized versions, and knowing how to find and move hidden files is a worthwhile skill. Suggestions?    Some answers suggest doing something like mv src/.* dest/. However, I tried this on my test directories and got errors. Starting with:  rcook$ ls -a a/ b/ a/: .  ..  bar  .foo  b/: .  .. rcook$ mv a/.* b/ mv: cannot move 'a/.' to 'b/.': Device or resource busy mv: cannot remove 'a/..': Is a directory rcook$ ls -a a/ b/ a/: .  ..  bar  b/: .  ..  .foo   What am I doing wrong?
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I added a torrent for download about a month ago which is in .rar format.  Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to proceed any further than 91.01% due to unavailability of seeders.  Whenever I try to open or extract the torrent I get the following error:  An error occurred while loading the archive.   Command Line output:  ??? - the file header is corrupt.   I am using archive manager to extract the file.  Is there any possibility of extracting the file using any method?
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I need to search for a file inside a tar.gz file without extracting it. After that, I need to copy the file that was searched (if ever there is) to another folder.  So far I have this, but the copy part of this line gives me an error.  gunzip -c file.tar.gz | tar tvf - | grep filename | -exec cp {} /folder/another_folder \;   Or is there a better way to search for a file inside a tar.gz file without extracting it?