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tar: How to create a tar file with arbitrary leading directories w/o 'cd'ing to parent dir

Is there a smarter tar or cpio out there for efficiently retrieving a file stored in the archive?

Apple - How uncompress tar.lz file

How portable is a gzip file over 4 GB in size?

How do I write sequentially several tar's to a tape?

Make grown extracted tar file small again

How much space does my little file take up, exactly?

What is the easiest way to list all the user:group found in a tarball?

What does --strip-components -C mean in tar?

Why does tar appear to skip file contents when output file is /dev/null?