On Fri, Aug 06, 2010 at 07:47:37AM +0200, Ersek, Laszlo wrote:
> 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

Thanks a lot. I was searching for it for many weeks.

With warm regards,
-Payal
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