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Single file extract from tar file

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jaymax2U

jaymax2U

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Oct 1, 2008
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How can I do a single file extract from tar file

tar xvf example.tar # extracts the whole tar file, which may be very large.
 
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Answering myself
tar xvf tarfile.tar --include='desiredfile'
did it!
 
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