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bkeating 10-23-2003 01:47 PM
tar - how to extact only a single file from a archive?
 
I have a gzipped archive (5gigs) and would like to extract only one file (in this case, rc.conf).

the man doesn't really explain the proper syntax to do this, can someone give me a hand?

Demonbane 10-23-2003 02:05 PM
gzip -dc file.tar.gz | tar xf - pathname/filename

eg.
gzip -dc linux-2.4.22.tar.gz | tar xf - linux-2.4.22/README

bkeating 10-23-2003 02:12 PM
I believe (saw) an easier way, no pipes, just tar but this is what im having difficultly figuring out.

bkeating 10-23-2003 03:42 PM
I figured it out, pretty simple;

Code:
#tar -zxf backup.tar.gz /file/to/extract
another nice things is;

Code:
#tar -tf backup.tar.gz /file/to/extract
This lists the file(s) you'd like to extract (good safety percaution n such)


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