Date: Thu, 06 Nov 2003 16:00:56 -0600 From: Martin McCormick <martin@dc.cis.okstate.edu> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Extracting individual Files via tar Message-ID: <200311062200.hA6M0uLH074820@dc.cis.okstate.edu>
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The command tar ztf /usr/local/src/ports.tar.gz produces a table of contents just like the man page says it should. The man page also says that individual files can be recovered or listed but I haven't gotten that to work at all. if I try: $ tar zt ports/print/pstotext/ /usr/local/src/ports.tar.gz tar (child): /dev/sa0: Cannot open: Permission denied tar (child): Error is not recoverable: exiting now gzip: stdin: unexpected end of file tar: Child returned status 2 tar: ports/print/pstotext: Not found in archive tar: /usr/local/src/ports.tar.gz: Not found in archive tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors In the successful test, tar obviously knew which specification was the archive and was able to uncompress it with the z flag. The file specification I am attempting to recover from the archive throws tar completely off. I looked in the handbook and all the examples I found were the more usual procedure of unpacking whole file systems as in tar zxf somedir/archive.tar.gz I'm not having trouble with that use of tar. Thank you. Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK OSU Information Technology Division Network Operations Group
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