How to send a compressed archive that contains executables so that Google s attachment filter won t reject it

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I have a directory that I want to compress to send it by e-mail  I ve tried this   tar -cvf filename tar gz directory to compress    But when I try to send it by e-mail  Google says   filename tar gz contains an executable file  For security reasons  Gmail does not allow you to send this type of file    How to compress a directory into a tar gz file from command line

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Try this   tar -czf my tar gz dir    But are you sure you are not compressing some  exe file or something  Maybe the problem is not with te compression  but with the files you are compressing

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To bypass google s check  which is what you really want  simply remove the extensions from the file when you send it  and add them back after you download it  For example    tar czvf file tar gz directory  mv file tar gz filetargz   send filetargz via gmail   download filetargz   rename filetargz to file tar gz and open

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tar -cvzf filename tar gz directory to compress    Most tar commands have a z option to create a gziped version    Though seems to me the question is how to circumvent Google  I m not sure if renaming your output file would fool Google  but you could try  I e    tar -cvzf filename bla directory to compress    and then send the filename bla - contents will would be a zipped tar  so at the other end it could be retrieved as usual

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Another easy way to circumvent google s check is to use another compression algorithm with tar  like bz2   tar -cvjf my tar bz2 dir    Note that  j   for bz2 compression  is used above instead of  z   gzip compression

[linux] How to send a compressed archive that contains executables so that Google's attachment filter won't reject it

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