From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 1 07:35:48 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA06668 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 1 Feb 1999 07:35:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from vanessa.eliuk.org (pme165.sunshine.net [209.17.178.165]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA06659 for ; Mon, 1 Feb 1999 07:35:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kevin_eliuk@sunshine.net) Received: from localhost (cagey@localhost) by vanessa.eliuk.org (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id HAA01739; Mon, 1 Feb 1999 07:35:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cagey@vanessa.eliuk.org) Date: Mon, 1 Feb 1999 07:34:38 -0800 (PST) From: "Kevin G. Eliuk" Reply-To: "Kevin G. Eliuk" To: Michael Berhanu cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Tar Files In-Reply-To: <000701be4de4$1df302a0$e97f868b@BMICK> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 2 Feb 1999, Michael Berhanu wrote: There are probably a number of ways to do this. I normally create a file with "tar -tvf > exclude.file" and edit it to only include the paths and files that I do NOT want to extract and use the "-exclude-from" parameter. (ie: tar -xv -exclude-from exclude.file -f tar.file) > Hi, how do you extract files that are stuck together to form .TAR files? > > Thank you > Michael -- Regards, Kevin G. Eliuk Discover Rock Solid, Discover FreeBSD | http://www.FreeBSD.Org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message