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From: dan@hrc.UUCP (Dan Troxel)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: afio - extract single files?
Keywords: afio cpio extract
Message-ID: <200979@hrc.UUCP>
Date: 13 Oct 89 17:48:19 GMT
References: <902@upaya.UUCP>
Reply-To: dan@hrc.UUCP (Dan Troxel)
Organization: Handwriting Research Corporation
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In article <902@upaya.UUCP> tbetz@upaya.UUCP (Tom Betz) writes:
>
>And then i went to try to figure out how one would extract just
>one file from an afio-created archive, and realized that I don't
>know how!
>
>How does one do that?
>


afio -iv -b[block_size]k -y "name_of_file_to_get" /dev/tapedrive

Note: -Y will retrieve everything _except_ that file. By the way,
      afio allows a better use of the wild-cards than does cpio.
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