TAR help .....

[David A. Bandel]

On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 3:10 PM, Ben Duncan <bend at linux4ms.net> wrote:
> 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 ..)

tar xvf file.tar --strip 3 export/usr1/thisdir/MYFILE

>
> 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 ?
>
>
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