TAR Extract Question.
 

Help..

I have a huge tar file and I only need one file from it.

I've been trying to extract the one file with the following command but can't seem to get it.

Could anyone give me a hand with the proper command:

tar -xvf blog_work_linux.tar

I need the Readme.txt file from this tar file. I've tried a number of commands such as:

tar -xvf blog_work_linux.tar Readme.txt

and

tar -xvf blog_work_linux.tar /Readme.txt

and nothing works.

Thanks.:cry:

That's the correct syntax for extracting one file. Question: are you certain you spelled Readme.txt correctly? Are you sure it isn't README.txt?

"tar --list --file=blog_work_linux.tar" to list the archive and verify the spelling and case of Readme.txt.

Thanks bigrigdriver.

Yep. that the correct name of the file.

Try opening it with a GUI archiving tool and verify the name. You can extract the one file with the same GUI tool.

do
to make sure thats the correct name of the file.

hm, strange.
Look at the tarball's content using

$ tar -tf blog_work_linux.tar

and check whether the Readme.txt is in the "root directory" of the tar.
In case it is contained in a sub-directory you have to give the tar command the full path to it!

e.g.
then you have to type

tar -xf blog_work_linux.tar docs/Readme.txt

Or ... just use a GUI utility, as proposed.

Thanks all,

I'll try some of this out and advise.