On Thu, 5 Aug 2010, Payal wrote:

I have a tar archive in which i added file foo.txt 4 times (using -u switch). Now when I extract, I find that the last one overwrites all the previous ones extracted. How do I extract say only 2nd copy of foo.txt?

--occurrence=2

http://www.gnu.org/software/tar/manual/html_chapter/tar-invocation.html#IDX128

lacos

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