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Operating Systems AIX untar Post 302263758 by bakunin on Tuesday 2nd of December 2008 12:17:05 PM
Old 12-02-2008
You can limit what gets extracted from the archive by using a filename. For instance, going with your example, to extract only a.txt you could issue

Code:
tar -xvf samba.tar samba/a.txt

but this would still create a directory "./samba" and put "a.txt there. It would only prevent the other files getting untarred too.

If you do not want this or for some reason cannot mv the files afterwards to different locations you will have to create the tar archive in such a way that allows to extract files to a flat hierarchy. You could pipe a list of filenames to tar like this:

Code:
echo *txt | tar -cvf my.tar

"my.tar" would contain all the *txt files in the current directory and you could extract an arbitrary subset of these with the mechanism sketched above.

I hope this helps.

bakunin
 

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dh-make-gosa

DH-MAKE-GOSA(1) 						      Debian							   DH-MAKE-GOSA(1)

NAME

       dh-make-gosa - Debianizes the source of a given gosa plugin

SYNOPSIS

       dh-make-gosa [OPTION]...  SOURCE

DESCRIPTION

       dh-make-gosa takes a directory or tar ball of an existing gosa plugin and adds debian information to it. Feel free to use dpkg-buildpackage
       to generate your own gosa-plugin package from source or svn and enable it in the gosa.conf(5) file to activate it.

OPTIONS

       -r debian-release, --release debian-release
	      Set the Debian release to debian-release when generating the Debian tree. Default is the unstable release.

       --dest destination-directory
	      Place where dh-make-gosa will place its working data while generating the source directory.  Defaults to the current directory.

       --section debian-section
	      Set the Debian section to debian-section when generating the Debian tree.  Defaults to the the web section.

       --depends package,package,...
	      Add additional dependencies to the Debian tree which did not get listed in the plugin.dsc file. This is a comma  seperated  list	of
	      Debian package names.

       -e mail, --email mail
	      Overrides the Debian packager defined inside the plugin.dsc file by the one specified by mail.

Example usage
       # Check out a plugin from SVN
       svn co https://oss.gonicus.de/repositories/gosa/trunk/gosa-plugins/samba /tmp/samba

       # Debianize the tree
       cd /tmp
       dh-make-gosa --email cajus@debian.org --release etch --section web samba

       # Build debian package
       cd samba
       dpkg-buildpackage -uc -us -rfakeroot

       To build everything from the subversion repository which is GOsa related, please take a look at the contributed make-gosa-package script.

AUTHOR

       Cajus Pollmeier <cajus@debian.org>

BUGS

       Please  report  any  bugs,  or  post  any  suggestions,	to  the  GOsa  mailing	list  <gosa-devel@oss.gonicus.de> or to <https://oss.goni-
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       Copyright (C) 2003-2009 GONICUS GmbH

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