Re: Help with gz files

[Nyizsnyik Ferenc <nyizsa@bluebottle.com>]

On Fri, 2006-06-23 at 09:07 +0100, David Goodenough wrote:
> On Friday 23 June 2006 08:47, Chuck Payne wrote:
> > Lothar Braun wrote:
> > > On Fri, 2006-06-23 at 02:10 -0400, Chuck Payne wrote:
> > >> hi all,
> > >>
> > >> I need to pull out one file out of gzip file. Can someone explain to me
> > >> how.
> > >
> > > Use gunzip to do that:
> > >
> > > $ gunzip filename.gz
> > >
> > > -- Lothar
> >
> > Sorry, what I am wanting to do is pull a file out that gzip
> >
> > file x extracted from mygzip.gz
> >
> > That what I need to know, I don't want to extract the whole file because
> > it too large.
> >
> > Payne
> I think you have misunderstood .gz files.  filename.gz is a packed version
> of one file.  If that file is say a TAR file, then it can contain multiple 
> files, but the gz just contains one file.  If the original is a gziped tar 
> file then you can extract one file using tar.  So if you have a gziped tar
> file called large.tgz which contains amongst other things a file called fred
> which you wish to extract you can say:-
> 
> tar xzvf large.tgz fred
> 
> If you do not have a gziped tar file then you need to tell us more about
> the file and what you want to extract.
> 
> David
> 
> 

The simplest solution is to use file-roller. Provided that you have a
GUI and file-roller installed, of course. This will let you browse
several types of archives, and also extract one or more files.

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