Re: Extracting indiviual files or directories from XYZ.tar.xz - Possible?

[Richard Owlett <rowlett@access.net>]

On 8/8/25 9:08 PM, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> On 2025-08-07 09:33:34 -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> > On Thu, Aug 07, 2025 at 07:00:31 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:
> > > My questions:
> > >    1. Can individual files or directories be extracted from XYZ.tar.xz ?
> >
> > Yes.
> >
> > >    2. Is there a compressed format that makes above convenient?
> >
> > If you plan to do this repeatedly, the .zip format is a superior
> > choice.
>
> But it is quite bad for compression. The 7z format (implemented by
> 7-Zip) should be much better.

Compression "efficiency" [better term??] is not an issue as I'll be only 
be dealing with a very small portion of the contents of XYZ.tar.xz .