On Tuesday 14 June 2005 22:04, stefaan wrote: > How would I go about untarring a particular file selectively out of a > tarball. > > Is this possible at all if I know the path/filename existing in the > tarball? yup, use: tar -xf tarfilename path/of/desired/file If not sure of path/of/desired/file use tar -tf tarfilename to get a list of contents Paths are relative paths, i.e., they do not start with a / when extracted the desired file is in the path as specified starting in your current directory. I think that there is an option to put it elsewhere. If tar file is compressed with gzip insert the "z" option before the "f" tar does not care about the format of the tarfile name. It does not require a .tar suffix. If the tarfile is compressed and you forget the "z" option it will say that the file does not look like a tar file. You can also use the "file" command to find out what the file contents is. -- Paul Almquist paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Eau Claire, WI USA
