Extracting a particular files from a TAR file

[Pando]

Dear Gurus,

i have a TAR files which contans different files in it. I would like to ask on how to extract all files beginning with prefix BLF4G20LS from the TAR files to another directory.

Maximum point for all correct replies!

[Mel Burslan]

cd /directory/to/extract/into
for file in `tar -tvf mytarfile.tar|awk {'print $8'}`
do
tar -xvf mytarfile.tar $file
done


Hope this helps

[lawrenzo · Accepted solution]

should this be:

cd /directory/to/extract/into
for file in `tar -tvf mytarfile.tar|grep BLF4G20LS|awk {'print $8'}`
do
tar -xvf mytarfile.tar $file
done

??