In article <Pine.BSD/[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: >Can you please provide an easy way to extract specified files from a >deb package? Is there one already? > >I needed only one *.el from emacs-el-19.30. In trying to get at this >one file, it was necessary to extract the (about) 10MB of the package >into a temporary directory. I tried dpkg-deb --fsys-tarfile, but this >just seemed to extract the contents of the tar file to standard >output. It would have helped to have been able to extract a file, as >one can do with tar files.
Um, how about: dpkg-deb --fsys-tarfile emacs.deb | tar -xvf - foo.el This should extract foo.el from the .deb file. (You can specify a shell glob pattern instead of just a single filename too). I haven't actually tried this, but I imagine it should work. Austin
