Re: dpkg: can a single file be extracted?
adavis@kuentos.guam.net (Alan Eugene Davis) wrote on 28.04.96 in <Pine.BSD/.3.91.960428190141.14640A-100000@saba.kuentos.guam.net>:
> into a temporary directory. I tried dpkg-deb --fsys-tarfile, but this
> just seemed to extract the contents of the tar file to standard
> output. It would have helped to have been able to extract a file, as
> one can do with tar files.
Well, if you get the tar file to stdout, what is keeping you from simply
piping it into tar?
dpkg-deb --fsys-tarfile ... | tar xf - ...
Anything wrong with that?
MfG Kai
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