Extract file from tar home/

[Bob Goodwin]

On 08/06/10 19:26, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-06-08 at 18:15 -0400, Bob Goodwin wrote:
>    
>> Yes, and this is essentially what I did except I tar'd the entire
>>      /home/bobg/ directory into one big lump. My question was could I
>> go in and unzip individual files. It seems that can't be done easily.
>>      
> You don't seem to have grokked the previous answers (mine and others)
> including the one you're replying to. What you want to do is easy and
> completely standard. The quoted answer tells you exactly how to do it.
> Once more with feeling:
>
> To extract the whole thing:
> $ tar xf bobg.tar.gz
> (or tar xvf to if you want to watch it working)
>    
Yes, this works, has not been a problem.
> To extract only a specific file:
> $ tar xf bobg.tar.gz the/file/you/want
>    
For whatever reason I haven't been able to make that work. I will pursue 
that effort again later. I haven't been able to devote as much time to 
this today as I need to.

Thank you.

Bob
> poc
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