Re: Piping required files through tar
From: Adam Price (adam+usenet_at_pappnase.co.uk)
Date: 01/24/04
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Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2004 06:21:16 -0000
Ed wrote:
> Possibly not the best explaination but here goes ....
>
>
> for example
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> I have a tar file containing a dir called Jan04
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> In that dir are sub dirs called Spools Bank and Logs
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> I want to extract a file called 00012234.spl from Spool without
> extracting the whole dir structure
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> I'm sure it can be done , in fact I've seen it done at my last job
>
> But how ??
>
> ( Yes i have RTM )
Some tars have a flag to strip a path from the output filenames (Eg on
tru64 it is -P PATH).
Another approach is to use pax to extract the archive, it has a flag
-s which allows you to replace one path component with another.
Hope this helps
Adam
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