TAR help .....

[Ben Duncan]

But it will create the directories as well. I am just after getting
the single file out.

james at jamesmcdonald.id.au wrote:
> Basic syntax is:
> tar -xzf foo.tar.gz blah.txt
>               extract the file blah.txt from foo.tar.gz
> 
> but...V>> 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 ?
>>
> 

> 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
> 
> 
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