On Friday 23 June 2006 08:47, Chuck Payne wrote: > Lothar Braun wrote: > > On Fri, 2006-06-23 at 02:10 -0400, Chuck Payne wrote: > >> hi all, > >> > >> I need to pull out one file out of gzip file. Can someone explain to me > >> how. > > > > Use gunzip to do that: > > > > $ gunzip filename.gz > > > > -- Lothar > > Sorry, what I am wanting to do is pull a file out that gzip > > file x extracted from mygzip.gz > > That what I need to know, I don't want to extract the whole file because > it too large. > > Payne I think you have misunderstood .gz files. filename.gz is a packed version of one file. If that file is say a TAR file, then it can contain multiple files, but the gz just contains one file. If the original is a gziped tar file then you can extract one file using tar. So if you have a gziped tar file called large.tgz which contains amongst other things a file called fred which you wish to extract you can say:-
tar xzvf large.tgz fred If you do not have a gziped tar file then you need to tell us more about the file and what you want to extract. David -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
