On 08/06/10 19:26, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Tue, 2010-06-08 at 18:15 -0400, Bob Goodwin wrote: > >> Yes, and this is essentially what I did except I tar'd the entire >> /home/bobg/ directory into one big lump. My question was could I >> go in and unzip individual files. It seems that can't be done easily. >> > You don't seem to have grokked the previous answers (mine and others) > including the one you're replying to. What you want to do is easy and > completely standard. The quoted answer tells you exactly how to do it. > Once more with feeling: > > To extract the whole thing: > $ tar xf bobg.tar.gz > (or tar xvf to if you want to watch it working) > Yes, this works, has not been a problem. > To extract only a specific file: > $ tar xf bobg.tar.gz the/file/you/want > For whatever reason I haven't been able to make that work. I will pursue that effort again later. I haven't been able to devote as much time to this today as I need to. Thank you. Bob > poc > > -- -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
