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From: tbetz@dasys1.UUCP (Tom Betz)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: afio - extract single files?
Summary: -y works, but less than completely satisfactorily...
Keywords: afio cpio extract
Message-ID: <10979@dasys1.UUCP>
Date: 20 Oct 89 21:42:28 GMT
References: <902@upaya.UUCP>
Reply-To: tbetz@dasys1.UUCP (Tom Betz)
Organization: Greyston Business Services, Inc.
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Quoth tbetz@upaya.UUCP (Tom Betz) in <902@upaya.UUCP>:
|
|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?

Ake Sandgren was kind enough to direct me to the -y switch, which
works, though not entirely consistently with the way other
archiver programs work.  For example, while 'afio -i -y "tbetz/progwork"'
results in the contents of that directory being installed as
desired, 'afio -i -y "tbetz/progwork/" does not work, nor does 
'afio -i -y "tbetz/progwork/*".

However, I now know how to use this feature, and only wonder that
the only reply I received originated in Sweden!


Thanks, Ake.
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