Tar commands

[sir_saucealot]

Hey all,

Is there any way to extract a single file or directory from a .tgz archive? I've got a 15GB archive and people are complaining about a performance decrease when I untar the whole thing (and it takes a while). Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,

Sauce

[solman66]

sure,
just list the file/directory after the untar command.

for instance lets say we have an archive "website.tar.gz"
and we just want the "public_html" folder

tar -xzvf website.tar.gz public_html

this will extract just the public_html directory.

Hope this helps.

[sir_saucealot]

No probs - thanks!

I just got a bit confused with the leading slash and the directory structure inside the archive (about 12 directories deep, the file was!).

Thanks again,

Sauce