tar removing leading ‘/’ from member names
The “good” version is also displaying the same message you’ve just missed it. If you don’t like the behaviour, search for “leading”, in manual. First hit:
tar
Shell command to tar directory excluding certain files/folders
You can have multiple exclude options for tar so etc will work. Make sure to put –exclude before the source and destination items.
gzip: stdin: not in gzip format tar: Child returned status 1 tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
This means the file isn’t really a gzipped tar file — or any kind of gzipped file — in spite of being named like one. When you download a file with wget, check for indications like Length: unspecified [text/html] which shows it is plain text (text) and that it is intended to be interpreted as html. Check the wget output … Read more