tar problems

dshafi · 07-14-2004, 04:17 AM

Dear All
i have a tar file i want to extract a particular file or dir from a tar.can ayone help me

Mega Man X · 07-14-2004, 04:22 AM

What is the name of the file? Take a look here:

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...threadid=45094

it's a good howto about installing programs (and uncompressing them as well).

dshafi · 07-14-2004, 05:43 AM

like one example

i am creating a dir #mkdir -p test1/test2/test3/test4

and then i am doing # tar -cvf test.tar /test1/

i created a tar test.tar that contains all dirs (test1,test2,test3,test4)

Now what i want is when i extract tar -xvf i want only a particular dir example test4

if there any option is there

meshking · 07-14-2004, 11:31 AM

Yes, there is a method to do this with tar.

if your tar file has subdirectories:

/test1/bin
/test1/lib
/test2
/test3

listed when you tar tvf <yourTarFile.tar>

then just type tar xvf <yourTarFile.tar> /test1/lib

This should extract the /test1/lib to <yourCurrentDir>/test1/lib

HTH

dshafi · 07-15-2004, 01:21 AM

i am creating a dir #mkdir -p /test1/test2/test3/test4

and then i am doing # tar -cvf test.tar /test1/*

after creating tar i removed all rm -rf /test/*

then now i need only test4 dir

when i do # tar -xvf test.tar test4

its not working it says test4 not found in archive

meshking · 07-15-2004, 02:30 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by dshafi
i am creating a dir #mkdir -p /test1/test2/test3/test4

and then i am doing # tar -cvf test.tar /test1/*

after creating tar i removed all rm -rf /test/*

then now i need only test4 dir

when i do # tar -xvf test.tar test4

its not working it says test4 not found in archive

No, you need to use the full path, since you tar'd from /test1/ you will need the command:

#tar -xvf test.tar test1/test4

Having looked through the man, I can't see how you can get the dir to be extracted to . and not /test1/test4 however.

dshafi · 07-15-2004, 06:08 AM

tar -xvf test.tar test1/test2
test1/test2/
test1/test2/test3/
test1/test2/test3/test4/

when i do this all of them to be extracting test1,test2,test3,test4 i dont want like this i wants to extract only the particular dir say dir2 instead of getting all of the test1,test2,test3,test4