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Re: How to cat a specific file in .tar.gz?
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Eric Blake |
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Re: How to cat a specific file in .tar.gz? |
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Wed, 29 Aug 2012 15:35:20 -0700 |
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On 08/29/2012 09:49 AM, Peng Yu wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I don't find a way to only cat a specific file (or a few specified
> files) in a .tar.gz. But I think that it is very likely that there is
> already a utility does so without having to extract the whole tar.gz.
> If anybody knows such a way, would you please let me know? Thanks!
tar -xOf file.tar.gz path/to/file/within/tar
(here, using GNU tar's ability to auto-detect a gzip-compressed tar
file, along with -O to output a specific file from within the tar to
stdout).
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