Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!sdd.hp.com!mips!dimacs.rutgers.edu!rutgers!cbmvax!grr From: grr@cbmvax.commodore.com (George Robbins) Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix Subject: Re: extract single file from subset? Message-ID: <21465@cbmvax.commodore.com> Date: 10 May 91 12:24:23 GMT References: Reply-To: grr@cbmvax.commodore.com (George Robbins) Distribution: comp Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA Lines: 22 In article robm@ataraxia.Berkeley.EDU (Rob McNicholas) writes: > In article perf@efd.lth.se (Per > Foreby) writes: > Is it possible to extract a single file from a setld subset? > > > Most subsets are just compressed tar files, so > cat SUBSET | uncompress | tar tvf - > will give you a listing of the contents. Then, replace the > tar tvf - > with an extract command ('tar xpvf - FILE') to extract a specific > file. It's also worth pointing out that the various files in /usr/etc/subsets contain directory information which gives the location of the files on the distribution media. It's not too hard to figure out and is documented more or less directly in the "setld" section of the documentation set. -- George Robbins - now working for, uucp: {uunet|pyramid|rutgers}!cbmvax!grr but no way officially representing: domain: grr@cbmvax.commodore.com Commodore, Engineering Department phone: 215-431-9349 (only by moonlite)