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02.20.2007 at 02:56AM PST, ID: 22400501
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Extracting a single file from a tar file

Asked by mshajan in Linux

Hi,
        I just wanted to how to extract a single file (recovery) from a tar.gz file which is  15GB in size..
I just got tips from internet  to use the following commands , with which i could not succeed..
 
  tar xzpvf  test.tar.gz  <filename>    . Also as the path to the file is /opt1/data/Word/file1 , i also tried
 tar zxpvf  test.tar.gz   opt1/data/Word/file1  
 
  Both the commands does not work.. please help me to solve my issue....

Regards
 

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Keywords: Extracting a single file from a tar file
Title
1 tar file
2 Untarring multiple files
3 skip a file on untar
4 Need help with long filenames with tar …
5 Tar Limitation
6 Tar Extraction
 
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