... ciao: : on "10-20-2006" "Mauricio Silveira" writ: : 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 'man tar' offers: -T, --files-from F get names to extract or create from file F : when I run "tar xf file.tgz --occurrence index.txt" HOWEVER , i'm using a gnu flavour 'tar', which does "not" list '--occurrence' as an option, so, the suggestion above may not apply ... -- ... i'm a man, but i can change, if i have to , i guess ... - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-admin" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html