On 08/29/2012 09:49 AM, Peng Yu wrote: > Hi, > > I don't find a way to only cat a specific file (or a few specified > files) in a .tar.gz. But I think that it is very likely that there is > already a utility does so without having to extract the whole tar.gz. > If anybody knows such a way, would you please let me know? Thanks!
tar -xOf file.tar.gz path/to/file/within/tar (here, using GNU tar's ability to auto-detect a gzip-compressed tar file, along with -O to output a specific file from within the tar to stdout). -- Eric Blake [email protected] +1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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