Shell Programming and Scripting

You need:

Code:

uncompress -c test.tar.Z | tar xfq - folder1/obj/one.txt

When i try the following comment

uncompress -c test.tar.Z | tar xfq - folder1/obj/one.txt

it extracts the entire folder1 not tat particular file.

Please help me

No, it extracts that one particular file but creates all the folders leading up to it. So first remove folder1 (rm -rf folder1), do the above command. Then you will see folder1 with only "obj" and inside obj, only "one.txt".

Thanks a lot , I got it in command prompt.Now i need to read through script.
I have used the below code to read tat content of the file through perl script.


$d="uncompress -c test.tar.Z | tar xfq - folder1/obj/one.txt";
open(VERSION,$d) || print ("\nMissing 'INFO' file \n");
while (<VERSION>) {
chop;
$newVersion=$_;
print "$newPerlVersion";
}
close PERLVERSION;

But am not able to retrieve it.

I got the solution for above asked question
i have used the following code

$d="uncompress -c test.tar.Z |tar xfq - folder1/obj/one.txt";
system $d;
open(VERSION,"folder1/obj/one.txt") || print ("\nMissing 'INFO' file \n");
while (<VERSION>) {
chop;
$newlVersion=$_;
print "$newlVersion";
}
close VERSION;
system "rm -rf folder1";

You can actually shorten it just a wee bit. Differences in bold:

Code:

 
system <uncompress/untar command here>
open(VERSION,"folder1/obj/one.txt") || die ("\nMissing 'INFO' file \n");
while (<VERSION>) { print; }
system "rm -rf folder1";