On 08/06/10 19:36, Suvayu Ali wrote: > On Tuesday 08 June 2010 04:26 PM, 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) >> >> To extract only a specific file: >> $ tar xf bobg.tar.gz the/file/you/want >> >> > I think the OP's worry is not whether it can be done, but he wants to > avoid the time and CPU cycles involved in the gunzip step. Since he has > his entire home directory in the tarball, even extracting a single file > requires tar to decompress the entire tarball before it can extract that > one file. > > I think the only solution in this case is to do > > $ gunzip bobg.tar.gz > > and keep the resulting bobg.tar file in some easy to access area. A > subsequent > > $ tar xf bobg.tar /path/to/my/file > > should be fast and easy to do. > > >> poc >> >> > Apologies if my understanding of the OP's problem is incorrect. > Yes, that is it, processing that large file eats time and slowed down the computer when I created it making it difficult to do anything else while it worked. Bob -- -- 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
