recovery of a subset of files

[Dan Copeland]

Hi all,

I have set of three files on a big tar archive. I want to recover two files and leave the third. Is there an option in tar through which I will be able to accomplish this task? Please advise.

[Santosh Nair_1 · Accepted solution]

If you give the full path for the files that you want to recover, then tar will recover only those files rather than everything from the archive. For example, if you have /tmp/file1, /tmp/file2 and /tmp/file3 in archive.tar, then

tar xvf archive.tar /tmp/file2 /tmp/file3

will recover just the two files, file2 and file3.

Hope this helps.

-Santosh

[Ian Dennison_1]

'tar -tf [Archive]' will get the list

'tar -xvf [Archive] [File Name]' will extract the specific file.

Try to use the full path name specified by the first 'tar' command when extracting the file using the second 'tar' command.

Do you want to recover this file to a different destination driectory or filename?

Share and Enjoy! Ian

[Christopher McCray_1]

just use xv(f) options:

# tar xvf /dev/rmt/0m(or file)

Have a wonderful day!!

Chris

[Dan Copeland]

Hi Guys,

Santhosh, Ian and Chris. Thanks a lot for your quick reponse. I appreciate it.