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Old 08-05-2011
Unpack individual files from tarball

Say you don't want to unpack the whole thing, just individual files or directories within a .tgz. How to do this?
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Old 08-05-2011
just supply the filename(s) that exactly match names inside the tarball on your tar -x argument list.
e.g.
Code:
$ gzcat foo.tgz | tar -xf - exact/path/to/filename1

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