Re: [Help-tar] extracting files from a tar archives having many copies of the same file

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6 August 2010 • 1:47PM -0400

Re: [Help-tar] extracting files from a tar archives having many copies of the same file
by Ersek, Laszlo

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On Thu, 5 Aug 2010, Payal wrote:

> I have a tar archive in which i added file foo.txt 4 times (using -u
> switch). Now when I extract, I find that the last one overwrites all the
> previous ones extracted. How do I extract say only 2nd copy of foo.txt?

--occurrence=2

http://www.gnu.org/software/tar/manual/html_chapter/tar-invocation.html#IDX128

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