TAR help .....

[james at jamesmcdonald.id.au]

> Ok, I have a tar file. When you tzr tvzf , you have a list that shows
> something
> like :
> ....
> ......
> export/usr1/thisdir/afile
> export/usr1/thisdir/MYFILE
> .....
> ......
> ....... (and so one ..)
>
> and you want to extract ONLY MYFILE and you want it extracted
> in the directory you are in and NOT the WHOLE tree
> How do you do that ?
>

Basic syntax is:
tar -xzf foo.tar.gz blah.txt
              extract the file blah.txt from foo.tar.gz

but...
if you have.

usr1/MYFILE
usr1/thisdir/MYFILE

it will probably extract both MYFILE's

but I think you can specify it using a relative path
tar -xzf foo.tar.gz thisdir/MYFILE