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Re: [Help-tar] extracting files from a tar archives having many copies o
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Ersek, Laszlo |
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Re: [Help-tar] extracting files from a tar archives having many copies of the same file |
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Fri, 6 Aug 2010 07:47:37 +0200 (CEST) |
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