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Good question! Will try your suggestion first and see if something goes terribly wrong. :confused:

Hi Vi-Curious. Sorry, what I meant it does not work for files like Files.tgz.zip. I thought that was what you meant when you said "zipped tar files". In this case, the command does not work. It works...

Yes, Vi-Curious. I can't open zipped tar files as well. That potentially is a problem because I sometimes also want to extract zip files as well. Is there any option so that we can unzip the zip...

HI Perderabo. You are right. I am getting everything from the extraction. However, I am getting errors. Is there somewhere I can ignore the errors and exit gracefully as a success, instead of a...

Possible to do it in to command line?
Is it possible to ignore the error? Any options to do so?

Hi Perderabo. Thanks for the reply. I know where you are coming from. Logically, I could have just called tar xvf tarfile Files/Fruits. However, in some cases, my Files.tgz will also contain
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I've got this Files.tgz containing

Fruits/Apple.txt
Drinks/Soda.txt
Drinks/Pepsi.txt

I would like to extract all files/directories with pattern "Fruits".

So, what I did was

tar -xvf...

Oh yes!!!! It works!!!! Thanks so much era. Thanks so much everybody!!!!

Thanks Vi-Curious. For now, I think I shall use multiple lines to do what I want. Thanks so much!

Hi Vi-Curious. Your code does work, but not exactly what I was looking for. On most occasions, I don't know the exact filename inside the .tgz file to extract. Hence, the grep.

It's taking me...

Let's say I've got File.tgz that contains:-

Apple.txt
Banana.txt
Carrot.txt
AppleBanana.txt

Now, I would like to only extract files that contain the patter "Apple".

I've tried this

tar...