On Fri, Aug 06, 2010 at 07:47:37AM +0200, Ersek, Laszlo wrote: > 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
Thanks a lot. I was searching for it for many weeks. With warm regards, -Payal --
