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Old 07-27-2009
untar special requirement query

Dear friends,

Assume a tar file has been created using 100 files [E.g A.txt, B.txt....Z.txt]

If I want to untar the file and get only Z.txt upon untar , how do I do this

Please advice

Regards,
Suresh
# 2  
Old 07-27-2009
Code:
tar xvf archive_file.tar Z.txt

# 3  
Old 07-28-2009
Thank you very much for command
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