its its a .tar.gz archive, tar zxvf archive.tar.gz path/to/file/in.archive
will extract that singular file, and note the extraction will prob take as long as you extracting the entire archive since tar goes through the archive sequentially looking for that file (as if it were really on tape) -Casey On Tue, 23 Jan 2001, Rob Hudson wrote: > Anyone know of a way to do this? > > I need a single file out of a 1.6GB tar archive. It takes a _long_ > time to untar|ungzip the archive. Is there a way to get that one file > out if I know the exact name of it? > > Thanks, > Rob > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] >