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.tar file options

There's a file on my computer known as

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ILSVRC2012_img_train(0)(0)(0).tar

Now I guess I could unpack it with

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tar xvf ILSVRC2012_img_train(0)(0)(0).tar

But is there a better way to do this? This seems to be taking ages, spewing the files all over the current directory...

how big is that file? Actually the command tar is used to handle those files, so there is no better way. But it also depends on the speed of the underlying filesystem.

It's a... pretty big. I think it contains a lot of tar files...

Code:

chris@chris-crunch:~/apps/caffe-master/IMAGENET/training_data$ tar xvf ILSVRC2012_img_train\(0\)\(0\)\(0\).tar 

n01440764.tar

n01443537.tar

n01484850.tar

n01491361.tar

n01494475.tar

n01496331.tar

n01498041.tar

n01514668.tar

n01514859.tar

n01518878.tar

n01530575.tar

n01531178.tar

n01532829.tar

n01534433.tar

n01537544.tar

...

...

There's loads of these. Loads...

I've rapidly hit this problem:

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tar: n12144580.tar: Cannot write: No space left on device

Hmmm...?

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chris@chris-crunch:~/apps/caffe-master/IMAGENET/training_data$ df

Filesystem    1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on

udev            8174348        4  8174344  1% /dev

tmpfs            1637028      1232  1635796  1% /run

/dev/sda1      57561340  6606152  48008116  13% /

none                  4        0        4  0% /sys/fs/cgroup

none                5120        0      5120  0% /run/lock

none            8185136    166728  8018408  3% /run/shm

none              102400        80    102320  1% /run/user

/dev/sdb1      288237920 273572628      540 100% /home

/dev/sdb6      317272452    68296 301064536  1% /data1

/dev/sdb7      307462264    64344 291756628  1% /data2

Hahaha, damn it. What now...
I guess I could somehow put them into data1. how?

Code:

 chris@chris-crunch:~/apps/caffe-master/IMAGENET$ sudo cp training_data/ /data1/IMAGENET/

cp: omitting directory ‘training_data/’

What- Never mind. I place the -r after copy. Okay, this is taking a while to copy... Hehe

see man tar
tar -C <your preferred dir> -xvf <full path to your tar file>