-----Original Message----- From: redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Paal Marker Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2005 4:30 PM To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list Subject: Re: unpacking one single file from archive C. Linus Hicks wrote: >On Wed, 2005-01-19 at 07:04 -0600, Rigler, Stephen C. wrote: > > >>If the archive, "x.tar.gz", has a file that you want called "z.doc" >>then if you only want to extract the one file do: >> >>tar xvzf x.tar.gz z.doc >> >> > >This is true, AND you must match the path as stored in the archive. So >for example, if you have an archive with: > >xyz/1.abc > >Then you must use: > >tar xf x.tar xyz/1.abc > > > >Yes, that was where I missed it, unpacking a file under home/user I did >it by habit writing /home/user.....one slash to much.......thank u very >much. >Another question is search for a file in a tar.gz archive. Now I do it >in a heavy way in two steps, first make a file I can search in and then >make the search: >less y.tar.gz | cat > readfile >grep -n "x.doc" readfile >.......and I get the file with full path. >I believe there is a command for searching directly for a file and path >in a tar.gz archive, but wich one is it? You may try... tar ztvf y.tar.gz |grep -i "x.doc" -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
