On Fri, 17 Nov 2000, Dennis Gray wrote:
> I have read the manual from gnu.org but it is not very good on examples. I
> know I should be able to read a --files-from control file but cannot figure
> out the syntax of how to set up the file. In it I would like to specify to
> start by changing directories to /u02/data then specify the files to be
> extracted using a wildcard. Can anyone confirm that this can be done and
> show me an example?
I know nothing about control files, but I do know that you can specify tar
something like:
cd /destofwibble/
tar xvz /bob/wibble
And this will extract /bob/wibble off the tape in the default tape drive
and put in into the current working directory.
Mikal
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