How do you extract a single folder from a large tar.gz archive?
If you need to extract a particular folder, have a look at what's in the tar file: tar -tvf foo.tar And note the exact filename. In the case of my foo.tar file, I could extract /home/foo/bar by saying: tar -xvf foo.tar home/foo/bar # Note: no leading slash So no, the way you posted isn't (necessarily) the correct way to do it.
How to extract specific file(s) from tar.gz
The details are: Option 1. $ tar -tzf lotsofdata.tar.gz | grep contract. This will list the details of all files whose names contain your known part. Then you extract what you want using: $ tar -xzf lotsofdata.tar.gz <full path and filename from your list above>. You may need ./in front of your path for it to work.
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I'd like instead to download and extract the archive on the fly, without having the tar.gz written to the disk. I think this is possible by piping the output of wget to tar , and giving tar a target, but in practice I don't know how to put the pieces together.
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Then, for every matching file, execute tar in the directory of the found file (-execdir tar) with verbosity (-v) and extract gathered files (-x) from the tarball file (-f) located by find ('{}') (single quotes prevent shell interpretation of local file name) indicating end of parameter list to be passed to tar for every matching file ...
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2022年7月1日 · This code was written to extract multiple .tar files to another location and woks fine ls -1 ${short ...
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2020年1月14日 · Compression is the reduction of volume of a file. Archiving is storing of one of multiple files in an archive file with or without compression. A file with extention '.gz' is a compressed file. So your task sounds incorrect. But in *nix environments we often use compression of a tar archive, usually such a file has '.tar.gz' or '.tgz' extention.
How to unpack .tar.gz.md5 file in Linux? - Unix & Linux Stack …
2017年6月13日 · The filename that you mention ends with .md5, which most likely means that it contains the MD5 checksum of the contents of the file that has the same name but without the .md5 suffix. That file is called gdac.broadinstitute.org_KIRC.Merge_Clinical.Level_1.2016012800.0.0.tar.gz and has to be …
How do I gunzip to a particular directory?
2020年7月22日 · The easiest way is probably this: mkdir -p /BIG5 && gunzip -c BIG5.gz > /BIG5/file. This will create the directory /BIG5 if it does not exist, and then extract the file to that directory, to a file called file. You need to replace file with the name you want the extracted file to have. This will fail when /BIG5 is an already existing file, but ...
Extract multiple .tar.gz files with a single tar call
Please don’t reply with tar -zxvf *.tar.gz (because that does not work) and only reply with “doesn’t work” if you’re absolutely sure about it (and maybe have a good explanation why, too). Edit: I was pointed to an answer to this question on Stack Overflow which says in great detail that it’s not possible without breaking current tar ...
Unzipping a .gz file without removing the gzipped file
2014年9月19日 · Here are several alternatives: Give gunzip the --keep option (version 1.6 or later) -k --keep. Keep (don't delete) input files during compression or decompression. gunzip -k file.gz. Pass the file to gunzip as stdin. gunzip < file.gz > file. …