[ILUG] extracting single file from a tarball

[Conor Daly]

On Tue, Feb 06, 2001 at 04:50:59PM +0000 or so it is rumoured hereabouts, 
Donncha O Caoimh thought:
> John McDonnell wrote:
> > 
> > ladies and gentlemen of the Irish Linux Users Group, a quick question that
> > you may be able to assit me with:
> > 
> > is there any way to get a single file back from a tarball?
> > 
> 
> tar zxvf tarball.tar.gz path/to/file/filename
> 
> You'll have to specify the path as I did above, and it'll extract it to
> the same path in the current dir unless you tell it to go somewhere else
> using the -C switch..
> 
don't forget you can do a
 
tar -tf tarfile | grep fileyouwant
 
just to see what the damned path *is* anyhow...
 
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Conor Daly <conor.daly at oceanfree.net>

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