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Homework and Emergencies Emergency UNIX and Linux Support Extract particular folder from a .tar format files. Post 302501894 by solaris040 on Saturday 5th of March 2011 01:36:29 PM
Old 03-05-2011
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Hi There,

#tar -xvf <file_name.tar> . extracts all the contents to the present working location.

To exctract one particular folder, which means you want to exclude the rest of the files/folders, Try the below,

#cat >> /exclude
/root_folder/Folder1/Folder1-2/*
/root_folder/Folder2/Folder2-1/*
/root_folder/Folder2/Folder2-2/
Crtl+d, enter

Now run, #tar -Xxvf /exclude <file_name>

This should work.
 

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mdbFontSize(5)							 The m17n Library						    mdbFontSize(5)

NAME

       mdbFontSize - Font Size

DESCRIPTION

       In some case, a font contains incorrect information about its size (typically in the case of a hacked TrueType font), which results in a
       bad text layout when such a font is used in combination with the other fonts. To overcome this problem, the m17n library loads information
       about font-size adjustment from the m17n database by the tags <font, resize>. The data is loaded as a plist of this format.

       FONT-SIZE-ADJUSTMENT ::= PER-FONT *

       PER-FONT ::= '(' FONT-SPEC ADJUST-RATIO ')'

       FONT-SPEC ::=
	   '(' [ FOUNDRY FAMILY
	      [ WEIGHT [ STYLE [ STRETCH [ ADSTYLE ]]]]]
	    REGISTRY ')'

       ADJUST-RATIO ::= INTEGER

       FONT-SPEC is to specify properties of a font. FOUNDRY to REGISTRY are symbols corresponding to Mfoundry to Mregistry property of a font.
       See m17nFont for the meaning of each property.

       ADJUST-RATIO is an integer number specifying by percentage how much the font-size must be adjusted. For instance, this PER-FONT:

	   ((devanagari-cdac) 150)

       instructs the font handler of the m17n library to open a font of 1.5 times bigger than a requested size on opening a font whose registry is
       'devanagari-cdac'.

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