On Tue, 2010-06-08 at 19:51 -0400, Bob Goodwin wrote: > 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 > > > > > Post an example command you executed and maybe we can tell you what went wrong. -- -- ======================================================================= C:\WINDOWS>DEL *.* I feel better now. ======================================================================= Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -- 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
