On Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 02:43:29AM -0400, mark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > 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 > The above will do it if my/file/name.c is exactly how the file appears in the tar list produced by: tar tvf blah.tar ------------------------------------------- Aaron Konstam Computer Science Trinity University telephone: (210)-999-7484
