Rob: Try "tar --extract --file=<archive> <myfile>"
where <archive> is the name of your tar file, and <myfile> is the name of your desired file. See "info tar" for more details. --Rich 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 -- _________________________________________________________ Rich Puhek ETN Systems Inc. _________________________________________________________
