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Re: extract only PART of an archive



Brian K Servis <servis@ecn.purdue.edu> writes:
> Will Lowe writes:
> >I need to extract JUST ONE of the files in a .deb ....
>
> 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.
> 
> [...]
> 
> There may be others?

The 'official' way to do this is:

  dpkg-deb --fsys-tarfile | tar xvf - <filename>

It's basically the same as the method you listed, but makes fewer
assumptions about the format of the .deb file.


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