RE: Get a single file from a tar archive?

Rob, Try zcat archieve_set file_name, to look at things. Then; tar xzvf archieve_set file_name John -Original Message- From: Rich Puhek [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 2001 2:26 PM To: Rob Hudson Cc: Debian Subject: Re: Get a single file from a tar archive

Re: Get a single file from a tar archive?

Rob: Try "tar --extract --file= " where is the name of your tar file, and is the name of your desired file. See "info tar" for more details. --Rich 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|

Re: Get a single file from a tar archive?

its its a .tar.gz archive, tar zxvf archive.tar.gz path/to/file/in.archive will extract that singular file, and note the extraction will prob take as long as you extracting the entire archive since tar goes through the archive sequentially looking for that file (as if it were really on tape) -C