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

[Nicolas George <george@nsup.org>]

Michael Paoli (HE12025-08-09):
> Length of a file can change while tar is backing it up, tar generally
> handles this,
> though it may complain/warn about it.
> And to the compression formats, it's just a stream of data,
> they know nothing about tar.  So, the blocks of compressed data may
> have part of one large file, or maybe thousands of files.  The compression
> formats generally don't know or care when it comes to tar archive or the like,
> so there's not really much info they could provide to tar about what's within
> ... for the most part all they really know is its data, and perhaps
> also bits like
> how long the block is compressed, and uncompressed, and perhaps some
> hash of that data or the like.

I am pretty sure you need to read what Vincent and I wrote more
carefully.

> On Sat, Aug 9, 2025 at 2:47 PM Nicolas George <george@nsup.org> wrote:

Also, to not top-post on this mailing-list, thank you very much.

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  Nicolas George