From: Fiengo, Paul (Contractor) (FiengoP@ritchie.disa.mil)
Date: Wed Jun 02 2004 - 09:41:45 EDT
All,
Thank you for your many responses. Many of you responded with the fact that
the information I am looking for IS in the man pages. I will have to verify
this, but I am sure you are all right. Dave pointed out...
Huh? From the Solaris 8 tar manpage:
tar x [ BefFhiklmnopqvwX [ 0-7 ] ] [ tarfile ] [
exclude-file ] [ file ... ]
x Extract or restore. The named files are extracted from
the tarfile
In addition, many of you said to use an exclude file. Ryan says...
The only way I know how to do it is to create an exclude file. So you
generate a list of the files in the tarball using 'tar tf mytarball.tar >
excludefile'
Remove the path(s) / file(s) you want extracted from the exclude file
Then extract:
tar xf mytarball.tar excludefile
Be sure that if your tarball has a directory structure, you allow for
those to be created to.
For example if you want the file testdir/myfile, you must remove testdir/
and testdir/myfile in the exclude file. The testdir/ in a excludefile
essentially means testdir/*, so none of the files get created.
Most of you, however, provided me with a straight example. Jeff's example
is...
It's pretty simple. You just need to specify the path of the file you're
extracting:
If you have tarball foo.tar and you want to extract the file
./foo/fi/fum/file.txt, do this: tar xvf foo.tar ./foo/fi/fum/file.txt
I didn't have a tar file name per say. I tar'ed everything up to a tape.
Thus I used...
tar xvf /dev/rmt/0 filename
Again, THANK YOU all for the responses. I was successful.
Paul
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Fiengo, Paul (Contractor)
> Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 2004 3:46 PM
> To: 'sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org'
> Subject: Extracting Single File from Tarball
>
> Gurus:
>
> I am wanting to extract two files from a tar archive that I created. Is
> this possible? If so, how? Unix man pages / google are not producing any
> solutions. I am running Solaris 8 on a 280R. Will summarize.
>
> Thank You,
>
> Paul Fiengo
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