Extracting tarball to stdout

syberdave · 01-30-2004, 05:03 PM

Hey... does anyone know how to extract a single file from a tarball to stdout? I do not have enough diskspace to extract a large tarball normally.

I have read the manpage for tar but there isn't anything that would help me there.

Thanks in advance.

syberdave · 01-30-2004, 05:51 PM

Actually, nevermind... mkisofs can't take data from stdin anyway.

kleptophobiac · 01-30-2004, 07:30 PM

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pipe the output from tar into whatever other program you want