Quoting mak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On 06/12/2008, Neelesh Raje <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Dear all, >> >> 1How to extract only one folder and file from tar.gz and tar.bz2 file. > > > > First of all this is kind of two tier compression. Whatever files do you > have, those were first archived as dot tar, then it was agin zipped with > gzip or bzip2 >
it is quite amazing to see how the man pages can be ignored, and how a question can be answered without even understanding the question or the objective. Yes, it is a two tier archive, but they can be un-archived in one go. if it is tar.gz, use tar -zxvf <filename> if it is tar.bz2, use tar -jxvf <filename> but that was not your question, was it? you might find your answer if you look at the -T or --files-from option. Now, who needs a bit of spoon feeding to find out the tar man page? happy linuxing
