On Mon, 2010-06-07 at 17:58 -0400, Bob Goodwin wrote: > On 07/06/10 17:52, Luc MAIGNAN wrote: > > tar -xzvf bobg.tar.gz file_to_extract > > > > "man tar" is your friend... > > > > Le 07/06/10 23:48, Bob Goodwin a écrit : > > > >> I have /home/bobg/ tar'd to "bobg.tar.gz." Can I extract individual > >> files or directories without unzipping the entire 17 gigs? > >> > >> Bob > >> > >> -- > >> > > Yes I've been working with "man tar" and Google so thought I would > come to the place of last resort. > > AS I suspected it probably has to be unzipped first but that's ok, > just a thought. > > Thanks. > > Bob It does not need to unzipped first. Let say you have a file in your home directory called myfile. Then you can extract it by: tar xzf bobg,tar.gz ./bobg/myfile You can find out what to use to refer to the file by running: tar tvzf bobg.tar.gz |grep myfile -- ======================================================================= Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead. -- Euripides ======================================================================= 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
