Rob,
Try this.
tar xvfz foo.bar.tar needed.file
Garl
Rob Hudson wrote:
> Anyone know of a way to do this?
>
> I need a single file out of a 1.6GB tar archive. It takes a _long_
> time to untar|ungzip the archive. Is there a way to get that one file
> out if I know the exact name of it?
>
> Thanks,
> Rob
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