Re: About the tar extract signal directory~~

[Majian <jiannma@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks all .

I got it ~

On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 10:33 PM, mark <m.roth@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Majian wrote:
> Hi,all:
>
> I've couple of large tarballs such as www.tar and images.tar.
>  Is it possible to extract a single file or a list of files from a large
> tarball such as images.tar instead of extracting the entire tarball?
>  How do I extract specific files under Linux / UNIX operating systems?

All versions of *Nix have man pages. These are like WinDoze help, except more
technically detailed. T use them, do
prompt> man <command or file>

It's possible to see what might be related by doing
prompt> man -k <subject>

man tar

<snip>
EXAMPLES
       tar -xvf foo.tar
              verbosely extract foo.tar

       tar -xzf foo.tar.gz
              extract gzipped foo.tar.gz

       tar -cjf foo.tar.bz2 bar/
              create   bzipped   tar  archive  of  the  directory  bar  called
              foo.tar.bz2

       tar -xjf foo.tar.bz2 -C bar/
              extract bzipped foo.tar.bz2 after changing directory to bar

       tar -xzf foo.tar.gz blah.txt
              extract the file blah.txt from foo.tar.gz
<snip>

       mark

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