Re: Compressed Tar : stop on first occurrence
"Hendrik Visage" <[email protected]>
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On 10/20/06, Mauricio Silveira <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > > I'm wondering if there's any way to get tar to stop immediately after > the extraction of a file on compressed tar files. eg: I pack a big tgz > with the file index.txt first so that when I run "tar xf file.tgz > --occurrence index.txt" it extracts "index.txt" but proceeds reading the > file. I wish tar stopped after extracting the intended file. > > I know it works for non-compressed tar archives.... Perhaps try something like: gzcat filename.tgz | tar .... and see if that "works", else the issue is the piping effect of the gzip/bzip2 for tar. > > Any way of achieving this with compressed files... maybe a patch lying > around the net!? > > My distribution is slackware. > > Thanks in advance, > Mauricio > > > -- Hendrik Visage - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-admin" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html