Re: dpkg: can a single file be extracted?

["Brian C. White" <bcwhite@verisim.com>]

> Um, how about:
> 
>    dpkg-deb --fsys-tarfile emacs.deb | tar -xvf - foo.el
> 
> This should extract foo.el from the .deb file. (You can specify a
> shell glob pattern instead of just a single filename too).

Don't forget to quote the glob-pattern so the shell doesn't try to interpret
it.

                                        Brian
                               ( bcwhite@verisim.com )

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