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How to extract a single directory from tar archive using command line
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keen_prat:
Hi
I am dealing with some large files and I need to extract only particular directly using command line and I am doing it like following:
First I finding all files are there in the tar file ..
like
tar -tf archive.tar
then when I confirmed its there, I gave command
tar -xvf archive.tar mydirectorytoextract
But it is giving error that its not there in archive, I have used similar technique to extract file but directory is not extracting.. help please..
dalek:
I think it need to be like this:
--- Code: ---tar -zxvf archive.tar mydirectorytoextract
--- End code ---
You have the order correct but I think you may need the -z option. Watch that -f tho. When you use it, it has to be right before the file name, either as a separate option or on the end like you have them. I ran into that a few times myself. Also, I read somewhere that you have to put the path to the file you want to extract too. If I backup /home and then want to extract /home/dale/Desktop then it would be -f /home/dale/Desktop for tar to find the file. If -z doesn't help, try checking the path. Maybe it needs that.
Hope that helps.
:) :)
keen_prat:
-z is now deprecated but I think I found the solution, I was just trying and it was indeed path issue. I gave it like ./directory-name (as it was in root of archive) and it did the job.
dalek:
Glad you got it working.
:) :)
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