tar command - include wildcard?

[chibaru]

Hi,
I have a tar file with a directory that has subdirectories with reports in them. I would like to to extract only one report from all subdirectories. Is it possible to have a wildcard using an include file?

For example, in this tar file, I only want rpt1 from subdirA and subdirB:
2006-03-31/subdirA/rpt1
2006-03-31/subdirA/rpt2
2006-03-31/subdirB/rpt1
2006-03-31/subdirB/rpt2

I used this command:
tar xvf /export/home/user/rptbkp.20060331.tar -I /opt/ctlcard/tar_rpt_rpt1

The include file, tar_rpt_rpt1 has:
./2006-03-31/*/rpt1

 

[bigoldbulldog]

How about:

tar -ft /export/home/user/rptbkp.20060331.tar |
while read fn; do
  if [[ $(expr "$fn" : ".*subdir[AB]\/rpt1$") -gt 0 ]]; then
    tar -xvf /export/home/user/rptbkp.2006331.tar "$fn"
  fi
done

Do this in your folder of choice and expect the old directory structure to be reproduced from that point on. I don't have the -I option in my version of tar in HP-UX, so you're left with that.

Cheers,
ND

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[chibaru]

Thank you, I will try that!