On 10/20/06, Mauricio Silveira <msilveira@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi all, I'm wondering if there's any way to get tar to stop immediately after the extraction of a file on compressed tar files. eg: I pack a big tgz with the file index.txt first so that when I run "tar xf file.tgz --occurrence index.txt" it extracts "index.txt" but proceeds reading the file. I wish tar stopped after extracting the intended file. I know it works for non-compressed tar archives....
Perhaps try something like: gzcat filename.tgz | tar .... and see if that "works", else the issue is the piping effect of the gzip/bzip2 for tar.
Any way of achieving this with compressed files... maybe a patch lying around the net!? My distribution is slackware. Thanks in advance, Mauricio
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