Tar Extract a Single File(s) From a Large TarballGNU tar can be used to extract a single or more files from a tarball. To extract specific archive members, give their exact member names as arguments, as printed by -t option. Extracting Specific FilesExtract a file called etc/default/sysstat from config.tar.gz tarball:
$ tar -ztvf config.tar.gz $ tar -zxvf config.tar.gz etc/default/sysstat $ tar -xvf {tarball.tar} {path/to/file} Some people prefers following syntax:
tar --extract --file={tarball.tar} {file} Extract a directory called css from cbz.tar:
$ tar --extract --file=cbz.tar css Wildcard based extractingYou can also extract those files that match a specific globbing pattern (wildcards). For example, to extract from cbz.tar all files that begin with pic, no matter their directory prefix, you could type:
$ tar -xf cbz.tar --wildcards --no-anchored 'pic*' To extract all php files, enter:
$ tar -xf cbz.tar --wildcards --no-anchored '*.php' Where, - -x: instructs tar to extract files.
- -f: specifies filename / tarball name.
- -v: Verbose (show progress while extracting files).
- -j : filter archive through bzip2, use to decompress .bz2 files.
- -z: filter archive through gzip, use to decompress .gz files.
- –wildcards: instructs tar to treat command line arguments as globbing patterns.
- –no-anchored: informs it that the patterns apply to member names after any / delimiter.
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