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by **Neil Zanell** » Thu, 04 Mar 1999 04:00:00

Hello,

Is it possible to unpack individual files from a .tar archive without

extracting the contents of the whole archive?

Thanks.

by **Mario Stargar** » Thu, 04 Mar 1999 04:00:00

Yes. Use tar tvf <filename> to list the contents so you know what the
file is called.
Like this:

tar: blocksize = 8
drwxr-xr-x 5099/115 0 Feb 10 09:57 1999 work/
-rwxr-xr-x 5099/115 513 Feb 10 10:18 1999 work/junk
-rwxr-xr-x 5099/115 225 Feb 10 10:13 1999 work/harness

tar: blocksize = 8
x work/junk, 513 bytes, 2 tape blocks

Cheers,
Mario

> Hello,

> Is it possible to unpack individual files from a .tar archive without

> extracting the contents of the whole archive?

> Thanks.

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by **Ole Michaelse** » Thu, 04 Mar 1999 04:00:00

Quote:Neil Zanella writes:

> Is it possible to unpack individual files from a .tar archive without
> > extracting the contents of the whole archive?

"man tar" is your friend:

"tar xvf... /dev/rmt/0 `tar tf... /dev/rmt/0 | grep 'pattern'`" to
extract the files from the archive on /dev/rmt/0 which matches the
pattern 'pattern'.

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Regards,
Ole Michaelsen, Copenhagen, Denmark

by **Kurt J. Lanz** » Thu, 04 Mar 1999 04:00:00

> Hello,

> Is it possible to unpack individual files from a .tar archive without

> extracting the contents of the whole archive?

Have you tried the man page? As I read it, the answer is yes.

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