(un)tar a certain directory from an archive

Suinatsa · 06-20-2006, 06:37 AM

Hey guys,
I have a huge backup archive which contains 4 different folders. Now I only need one of the folders.
The tar file is to big to be extracted as a whole. It would take too long so how can I only extract a certain directory from a tar file?

I tried

tar xf file.tar --exlude 'directory/*' --exclude directory *

but that did not work!

THX

Suinatsa

zeitounator · 06-20-2006, 06:54 AM

Code:

tar xf file.tar path/of/dir/in/archive

more generally

Code:

tar xf file.tar [fileOrDirToExtract]

Suinatsa · 06-20-2006, 07:09 AM

Thanks that's what I needed!