Untar part of the tar file 2

[hokky]

Hi guys,

Just wondering whether thereis a way to untar some of the files of tar file ?

I check man tar, there is no such way.

Can I see the list of the file content in the tar files ?

Because my tar file is too big, so I just need some of them.

Thanks guys

 

[Gloups]

Have a look to the Input List option of to to specify whih file you want to extract from the tar archive

 

[hokky]

Hi Gloups,

Can you explain more specific pls ?

 

[Gloups]

Folowing explanation commes from AIX tar:

in the man tar:

-L InputList
The Inputlist argument to the -L option should always be the name of the file that lists the files and
directories that need to be archived or extracted.


To extract files specified in the input list file infile from an archive named ar.tar, enter:

tar xvfL ar.tar infile

 

[hokky]

what about if we don't know the list file,

How can we tell ? like in winzip before we extract we know what files inside it ?

 

[p5wizard]

tar -tf tarfile

gives table of contents of tarfile (the - is optional I think)

So one way:

tar -tf tarfile >/tmp/listfile

Then edit the so created listfile and use as in above posts.


HTH,

p5wizard

 

[hokky]

Alrite..

Thanks guys