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Re: Howto use dpkg-deb --fsys-tarfile + tar to extract one file?



On Thu, 2001-09-20 at 18:04, Shaul Karl wrote:
> Quoting dpkg-deb man page:
> 
> --fsys-tarfile
> 	Extracts  the  filesystem  tree  data from a binary
> 	package and sends it to standard output in tar for-
> 	mat.  Together with tar this can be used to extract
> 	a particular file from a package archive.
> 
> Can you advice the correct command line in order to have it extract 
> someHypotheticalFile?

send the stdoutput of how you want to run the command to a file with a >
yadda.tar

tar -x yourfilename -f yadda.tar

should do the trick

--mike



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