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Dear All,

I have a big tar.gz file with 210 files. About 60 of them have *.control.* pattern and I want only these.

Is there a way to extract only the files with this patter?

I tried zgrep with tar, but I am not having sucess.

Thanks, Leandro

According to:

Code:

tar --help | grep excl

You should try this:

Code:

tar -axf "tarball.tar.gz" -X *.control.*

hth

Dear Sea,

Thanks very much for your help!

But I got an error message:

tar: *.control.*: No such file or directory

I looked at tar --help | grep excl, but said that -X exclude patterns listed in FILE. Will it exclude the file with the pattern?

Thank you so much!

Dear IColli

Have no practice with such a situation, but according to the error message part you posted, i'd try:

Code:

tar -axX *.control.* -f "tarball.tar.gz"

(i mis-aranged the syntax in prior post)

That is since I understand it like the pattern is to be search in the tarball FILE.
But now writing, actualy you want to exlcude everything else, but only 'include' *control*...

This said, i guess it would be easier (for later) to now extract everything, and make a new tarball only including those *.control.* files.

Hope this helps

---------- Post updated at 18:50 ---------- Previous update was at 18:47 ----------

HA... lol...
Even simpler...

Code:

tar -axf tarball.tar.gz *.control.*

sry

tar -axf tarball.tar.gz *.control.*

Worked just perfect!!!

Thanks so much for your help!!