Majian wrote:
Hi,all:
I've couple of large tarballs such as www.tar and images.tar. Is it possible to extract a single file or a list of files from a large tarball such as images.tar instead of extracting the entire tarball? How do I extract specific files under Linux / UNIX operating systems?
All versions of *Nix have man pages. These are like WinDoze help, except more technically detailed. T use them, do prompt> man <command or file>
It's possible to see what might be related by doing prompt> man -k <subject>
man tar
<snip> EXAMPLES tar -xvf foo.tar verbosely extract foo.tar
tar -xzf foo.tar.gz extract gzipped foo.tar.gz
tar -cjf foo.tar.bz2 bar/ create bzipped tar archive of the directory bar called foo.tar.bz2
tar -xjf foo.tar.bz2 -C bar/ extract bzipped foo.tar.bz2 after changing directory to bar
tar -xzf foo.tar.gz blah.txt extract the file blah.txt from foo.tar.gz <snip>
mark