Date: Mon, 18 Jan 1999 18:51:42 +0000 From: Mark Ovens <marko@uk.radan.com> To: "Marko's Work" <marko@websorcery.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: about tar Message-ID: <36A382BE.DEA818A0@uk.radan.com> References: <01be430e$656259a0$9d83b7d1@vidbox>
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Marko's Work wrote:
>
> If I have a large tar file (ex/ backup.tgz), how would i go about
> extracting just one file from the archive (without extracting the path
> or anything else)??
>
Just to confuse everyone, this is marko replying to marko:-)
tar will extract a file with any path it is stored with. However, you
can change where that path starts. Say your file is (using tar tvf)
usr/home/file. If you want to extract it to, say, /tmp use ``tar xf
<tarfile> -C /tmp usr/home/file'' (change the options as req'd, e.g. zxf
if its a gzip'd tar). This will extract the file to /tmp/usr/home/file,
it may not be exactly what you want, but at least it won't overwrite the
original.
Note, the manpage for tar shows the ``-C'' option comes _after_ the
filename(s) but I've found that doesn't work, you need the filename(s)
last.
HTH
> Thanks for your help...
>
> marko@websorcery.com
>
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