Re: extract only PART of an archive

To: Brian K Servis <servis@ecn.purdue.edu>
Cc: Debian Mailing List <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Subject: Re: extract only PART of an archive
From: Joey Hess <joey@kite.ml.org>
Date: Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:14:55 -0400
Message-id: <[🔎] 19970926211455.12977@kite>
In-reply-to: <[🔎] 199709270104.UAA02150@widget.ecn.purdue.edu>; from Brian K Servis on Fri, Sep 26, 1997 at 08:04:48PM -0500
References: <[🔎] Pine.LNX.3.95q.970926185757.12810A-100000@rivendell.rndy.udel.edu> <[🔎] 199709270104.UAA02150@widget.ecn.purdue.edu>

Brian K Servis wrote:
> 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?

Well, this gets rid of the temp files:

ar p file.deb data.tar.gz | tar zxf - filename

-- 
see shy jo


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