Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2005 10:49:21 -0800 From: Danny Howard <dannyman@toldme.com> To: infofarmer@mail.ru Cc: FreeBSD-Questions Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Mount a tar archive? Message-ID: <424AF4B1.4060403@toldme.com> In-Reply-To: <424AEFB2.8020001@mail.ru> References: <424AEFB2.8020001@mail.ru>
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Andrew P. wrote: > Hello! > > I have a 80G tar archive which I have nowhere to > extract to. Could I mount it as a filesystem? > Read-only would suffice. Andrew, Short of that solution, why not tar -t to get a list of files in the archive, then you can tar -x the files you actually want. You ought to be able to: tar -t foo.tar > list.txt edit list.txt cat list.txt | xargs tar -x foo.tar -danny -- http://dannyman.toldme.com/
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