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How to extract a particular file from a tar file?

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May 182010
 

How to extract a particular file from a tar file?

Answer:

Assume you have a lot of files in a tar file, how do you extract only a particular file without extract all the files?

Just use the following command:

# tar xvf files.tar file.txt

Now only file.txt is extracted.

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