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extracting group of files from a tar.bz that was created with the following tar -

the original tarball was created with

tar -cjvf foo.tar.bz

i need to find all of the dea* files in that tarball. typically i would just extract the entire tarball into a /tmp directory, but the system is low on space and the fully extracted tarball is larger then the remaining space on the / partition.

Code:

$ tar -xvf rx-2012-06-03-0100.tar.bz --wildcards --no-anchored 'dea*'

will that extract the dea* files to the location of the tarball, or to their original location on the server were the tarball was created from?

found the answer, also learned the doing this on a 6G tarball will take close to 45min on the system it is located.