Replace a single file in a tar

Show 2 more comments. You have two options: Either use tar and grep to list the contents of your tarball so you can find out the full path and name of any files that match the part you know, and then use tar to extract that one file now you know its exact details, or you can use two little known switches to just extract all files that match what little you do know of your file name—you don't need to know the full name or any part of its path for this option.

HalosGhost 4, 10 10 gold badges 31 31 silver badges 40 40 bronze badges. Wendy Cricks Wendy Cricks 4 4 silver badges 2 2 bronze badges. You might have to be patient with these, took a while Also maybe it's obvious, but it's going to extract the full directory structure in the current directory, even if those directories don't exist yet. BSD tar at least on macOS doesn't support the --wildcards option.

Please find below the examples of extracting specific files from tar. Bernhard Bernhard 11k 3 3 gold badges 56 56 silver badges 69 69 bronze badges. Then obiously extract11 is not in the tar-file. Be sure that you need to provide the relative path. See edit — Bernhard. Sign up or log in Sign up using Google. Sign up using Facebook. Sign up using Email and Password. Post as a guest Name. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes.

However better is to first extract all the files in a temporary directory, then walk over the tree using find. Improve this answer. Anthon Anthon 74k 41 41 gold badges silver badges bronze badges.

Sign up or log in Sign up using Google. Sign up using Facebook. Sign up using Email and Password. Post as a guest Name. Output : os2. Extracting files from Archive using option -xvf : This command extracts files from Archives. Creating compressed tar archive file in Linux using option -j : This command compresses and creates archive file less than the size of the gzip. Both compress and decompress takes more time then gzip. Untar single tar file or specified directory in Linux : This command will Untar a file in current directory or in a specified directory using -C option.

Untar multiple. Check size of existing tar, tar. We can pass a file name as an argument to search a tarfile : This command views the archived files along with their details. Skip to: content search login. Knowledge Base Toggle local menu Menus About the team. Knowledge Base Search.

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