On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 01:42:37PM +0530, G.Vinubalaji wrote:
>
> Is it possible to extract all files and directories from the
> the tar.gz file except for a list of specified files? Checked
> out the man and info pages of tar and could not find info for
> that. It does have an option to extract a list of specific
> files.
o AFAIK, there is no switch within tar to do such a thing.
o I have done the following thing in the past to achieve exactly
what you are looking for. It is a multi-stage process. It is
based on the -T (--from-file) switch:
1. tar -tzvf filename.tar.gz | cut -b 52- > tar.lst
2. vi tar.lst [exclude dir entries and files not needed]
3. tar -xzvf filename.tar.gz -T tar.lst
HTH
Bish
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