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Re: [Help-tar] extracting files from a tar archives having many copies o
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Payal |
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Re: [Help-tar] extracting files from a tar archives having many copies of the same file |
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Fri, 6 Aug 2010 19:25:48 -0700 |
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Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) |
On Fri, Aug 06, 2010 at 07:47:37AM +0200, Ersek, Laszlo wrote:
> On Thu, 5 Aug 2010, Payal wrote:
>
>> I have a tar archive in which i added file foo.txt 4 times (using -u
>> switch). Now when I extract, I find that the last one overwrites all
>> the previous ones extracted. How do I extract say only 2nd copy of
>> foo.txt?
>
> --occurrence=2
>
> http://www.gnu.org/software/tar/manual/html_chapter/tar-invocation.html#IDX128
Thanks a lot. I was searching for it for many weeks.
With warm regards,
-Payal
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