TAR command

[Ankit Grover]

Can a single file be extracted from an archived tar file?

I have got around 200 files in a single TAR file and want to extract only few of them.

[Mancboy · Accepted solution]

just specify the filename as it appears in the tar file you want after the tar file

In this example I've created a simple tar file of the logs directory


# tar cvf k.tar logs/E*
a logs/EventLog.ltt 8 blocks
a logs/EventLog_backup_1.ltt 9 blocks
a logs/EventLog_backup_2.ltt 8 blocks
a logs/EventLog_backup_3.ltt 8 blocks
a logs/EventLog_backup_4.ltt 2 blocks
a logs/EventLog_backup_5.ltt 2 blocks
a logs/EventLog_backup_6.ltt 8 blocks
a logs/EventLog_backup_7.ltt 8 blocks
a logs/EventLog_backup_8.ltt 8 blocks
a logs/EventLog_backup_9.ltt 98 blocks

# cd logs/output

# tar xvf ../../k.tar logs/EventLog_backup_1.ltt
x logs/EventLog_backup_1.ltt, 4344 bytes, 9 tape blocks


Had I just type EventLog_backup_1.ltt, it would have failed

[Vipulinux]

Hi
do a tar tvf tarfile_name

this will show what all i sthere in the tar archive
then do a tar xvf your_file
to extract one file.

Cheers

[Ankit Grover]

Thanks for the solution.

tar xvf

[Mancboy]

in case you've forgotten to say thanks with points, here's the thread to say thanks to those who helped :-)

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/bizsupport/helptips.do?#33