Comments on: Tar Extract a Single File(s) From a Large Tarball

By: Balaji

Balaji — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 06:50:27 +0000

Thank you very much. Timely help.

By: reetesh

reetesh — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 03:15:42 +0000

thanks…good to know

By: Yan.Geema

Yan.Geema — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 15:11:24 +0000

Very useful.

Thanks!

By: Dmitry

Dmitry — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 16:19:43 +0000

For better speed and low cpu usage use pbzip2, very good work with big archives on hosting systems.

By: Prafull

Prafull — Mon, 20 Dec 2010 09:54:22 +0000

On Solaris 10 if you have a tar ball called myTarfile.tar and you want to extract only one directory called my_dir from that tar file then below command workes

tar -xvf myTarfile.tar -C my_dir

By: Maurzanc

Maurzanc — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 23:31:13 +0000

I think you are talking about a multiple RAR archive downloaded from a torrent client. if it is, you have search the answer in other forum.

Маурсанк

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 12 May 2010 04:10:29 +0000

good advice, I am waiting here for a file to be extracted from a 7GB tar file which is stored on a different computer. Its going to be a long night I think.

By: Kevin H

Kevin H — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 20:48:31 +0000

is there a way to use regexp matching rather than wildcard matching with tar?

By: Asad Kahwaja

Asad Kahwaja — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 19:08:00 +0000

My problem is that i have downloaded a movie.
But my mvie is corrupt in da end
now i have downloaded 8th part of the movie.
but when i extract it
i gives me error
” YOU MUST HAVE THE PREVIOUS FILES TO EXTRACT “…
is dere any way i can resole this n can only extract on file.

By: subba

subba — Fri, 15 May 2009 04:43:59 +0000

Good one! Thanks a lot!

By: Jatin

Jatin — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 11:40:24 +0000

Great help !!! thanks ..

By: kpb

kpb — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 01:33:16 +0000

Great article!
Keep it coming!

By: zaffar

zaffar — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 12:12:57 +0000

excellent article for new bie

By: elinus liga

elinus liga — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 11:09:17 +0000

Excellent post. It’s really useful. Clear, simple and just as what we need.

By: ruben

ruben — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 08:13:29 +0000

I suggest getting coffee especially, Extracting files from large tar files.
Instead of using tar, it’s far better to use zip as methode. the reason for this is that zip knows where the files are.

We have some 4 Gb tar files and extracting a couple of single files with tar can take up to 25 minutes.

My 2 cents,

Ruben

By: sathiya

sathiya — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 11:42:52 +0000

excellent article..