Helo, I think there is a trouble on this option on centos 5.5. (tar-1.15.1-30.el5) It didn't do anything for me.
I'm using it on an archive and on a file near the start of the archive, but tar continue even my file is "untared". Ex : tar -zxvf some.tar.gz -C /tmp/test --occurrence -T /tmp/file2extract with /tmp/file2extract /somedirs/myfile or tar -zxvf some.tar.gz -C /tmp/test --occurrence /somedirs/myfilet or tar -zxvf some.tar.gz -C /tmp/test --occurrence=1 /somedirs/myfilet I have tried to compile by myself the last tar but it failed on the most check I have writen a php script that look at the output of tar (in realtime mode, and with --verbose --verbose --verbose) this script see the size and the name of the attended file (<attribute> <userinfo> <size> /somedirs/myfile) and wait that tar have extracted all the size and then kill tar. I don't think it's a good idea... Thank's for your help Emmanuel Borlet
