On Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 01:04:28PM +1000, 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?
> Also been looking at cpio, would this maybe do it?
tar -xvf blah.tar my/file/name.c
Also useful might be the listing of the file names in a tar file:
tar -tf blah.tar
cpio can do it, but I'm not sure that it does a better job.
Cheers,
mark
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