Extract file from tar home/

[Ed Greshko]

On 06/10/2010 04:50 PM, Mike McCarty wrote:
> Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
>   
>
>> On further reflexion and a close reading of "info tar", we find the
>> following:
>>
>> `--occurrence[=NUMBER]'
>>      This option can be used in conjunction with one of the subcommands
>>      `--delete', `--diff', `--extract' or `--list' when a list of files
>>      is given either on the command line or via `-T' option.
>>     
> Hmm. That's nice behavior. My version of tar doesn't do that. It
> always reads to EOF. I think I'll have to upgrade, since I use
> tar to do backups, and when I restore, I have to go through
> all the DVDs up to the file I want, and then abort with a ^C or
> similar.
>
> I wonder when that was added?
>
>   
Well....  F11 has it and RHELv4 has it.  So, it has been a while.

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