Re: extract only PART of an archive

[Brian K Servis <servis@ecn.purdue.edu>]

Will Lowe writes:
>
>I need to extract JUST ONE of the files in a .deb ....
>
>I've searched through the dpkg info and man pages and haven't found any
>way to do this (I might be blind, though).  Is there anyway to do it with
>out doing
>
>dpkg -R /tmp/ file.deb
>
>and then moving the one file and clearing /tmp?
>
>                     					Will

The only way I know is to use ar to pull the data.tar.gz from the .deb
and then untar the file from that.

ar -x <file>.deb  data.tar.gz
tar zxvf data.tar.gz <ONE-FILE>
rm data.tar.gz

There may be others?

Brian 
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