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Johannes Ernst
Asked: 2015-07-16 20:09:24 +0800 CST

zip of files with extended attributes

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I need to archive and compress a large number of files but some of those files may have extended attributes whose content I don't want to lose.

My understanding is that zip doesn't do that. Is there something that does?

I believe that some versions of tar support extended attributes, but I'd prefer being able to access individuals files in the archive without having to decompress the entire archive as I have to with tar.

This is Linux only.

linux

1 Answers

  1. I'm using absolute paths here:

    Use tar:

    tar --xattrs cjf file.tar.bz2 /path/to/files

    For extract a file:

    tar xjf file.tar.bz2 path/to/files/dir/file-to-extract -C /

    Cheers!

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