tar - extracting a single directory from a large archive?

lowpro2k3 · 07-24-2005, 01:21 AM

I have this huge tar archive, zipped with bzip2. So its a *.tar.bz2 file. I'm trying to extract a single directory, test from the archive arch. The thing is like 4.6GB, and the test directory is probably 5MB. I can't tell if tar is "thinking" or "waiting for input".

I ran this:

Code:

$ ls -l
-rw-------    1 root    root    4.6GB   arch.tar.bz2
drw-------    1 root    root    4.0K    test
$mkdir tmp
$ cd tmp
$ tar xjvf ../arch.tar.bz2 test/*

Is this right? The archived directory 'test' has many subdirectories and files inside it.

heema · 07-24-2005, 02:44 AM

try:

tar -xvfz arch.tar.bz2 test

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