All, Thank you for your many responses. Many of you responded with the fact that the information I am looking for IS in the man pages. I will have to verify this, but I am sure you are all right. Dave pointed out... Huh? From the Solaris 8 tar manpage: tar x [ BefFhiklmnopqvwX [ 0-7 ] ] [ tarfile ] [ exclude-file ] [ file ... ] x Extract or restore. The named files are extracted from the tarfile In addition, many of you said to use an exclude file. Ryan says... The only way I know how to do it is to create an exclude file. So you generate a list of the files in the tarball using 'tar tf mytarball.tar > excludefile' Remove the path(s) / file(s) you want extracted from the exclude file Then extract: tar xf mytarball.tar excludefile Be sure that if your tarball has a directory structure, you allow for those to be created to. For example if you want the file testdir/myfile, you must remove testdir/ and testdir/myfile in the exclude file. The testdir/ in a excludefile essentially means testdir/*, so none of the files get created. Most of you, however, provided me with a straight example. Jeff's example is... It's pretty simple. You just need to specify the path of the file you're extracting: If you have tarball foo.tar and you want to extract the file ./foo/fi/fum/file.txt, do this: tar xvf foo.tar ./foo/fi/fum/file.txt I didn't have a tar file name per say. I tar'ed everything up to a tape. Thus I used... tar xvf /dev/rmt/0 filename Again, THANK YOU all for the responses. I was successful. Paul > -----Original Message----- > From: Fiengo, Paul (Contractor) > Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 2004 3:46 PM > To: 'sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org' > Subject: Extracting Single File from Tarball > > Gurus: > > I am wanting to extract two files from a tar archive that I created. Is > this possible? If so, how? Unix man pages / google are not producing any > solutions. I am running Solaris 8 on a 280R. Will summarize. > > Thank You, > > Paul Fiengo _______________________________________________ sunmanagers mailing list sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagersReceived on Wed Jun 2 09:42:12 2004
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