topic Re: extract specific files from backup.tar.gz in HPUX in Operating System - HP-UX

extract specific files from backup.tar.gz in HPUX

ouazir — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 08:08:37 GMT

hello,
i want to extract a specific file from tar zipped backup what is the commande that i must use ?
the above commande give no results
cat backup.tar.gz|gunzip|tar -xvf- specific_file

Re: extract specific files from backup.tar.gz in HPUX

rariasn — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 09:28:30 GMT

Hi:

gunzip < backup.tar.gz |tar -xvf -

rgs,

Re: extract specific files from backup.tar.gz in HPUX

Dennis Handly — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 09:39:32 GMT

Try: gzcat backup.tar.gz | tar -xvf - specific_file
Note that file must match the name when it was stored. You may need -tvf to get the right name.

Re: extract specific files from backup.tar.gz in HPUX

Hakki Aydin Ucar — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 12:19:35 GMT

To extract the compressed tar archieve target.tar.gz OR .tgz into the current directory in a single step:

# gzip â d target.tar.gz | tar xf â
OR

To list .tgz archieve
# gzip -dc DIRECTORY.tgz | tar tvf -

Re: extract specific files from backup.tar.gz in HPUX

ouazir — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 16:02:55 GMT

thanks a lot, your replay was helpfull

Re: extract specific files from backup.tar.gz in HPUX

muruganantham raju — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 05:33:44 GMT

Hi,
The following example would help.

#tar -tvf test.tar
rwxrwxrwx 0/3 0 Aug 3 10:26 2010 test/
rw-rw-rw- 0/3 0 Aug 3 10:26 2010 test/cac
rw-rw-rw- 0/3 0 Aug 3 09:50 2010 test/a1
rw-rw-rw- 0/3 0 Aug 3 09:50 2010 test/a2

To extract get cac file

#tar -xvf test.tar test/cac
x test/cac, 0 bytes, 0 tape blocks

HTH
Muru