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From: mhlevy@sbee.sunysb.edu (Mark Levy)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: Using tar with the 'r' option
Summary: tar to standard output
Keywords: tar append
Message-ID: <1188@sbee.sunysb.edu>
Date: 11 Jun 89 23:25:13 GMT
References: <186@usource.uucp> <1989Jun5.102944.12991@ateng.ateng.com> <771@mccc.UUCP>
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Organization: State University of New York at Stony Brook
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In article <771@mccc.UUCP>, pjh@mccc.UUCP (Pete Holsberg) writes:
> Is there anyway to get tar to extract a file from an archive file and send it
> to stdout (rather than to a file)?
> -- 
> Pete Holsberg, Professor, Technology Division


Try:
     tar xvf -   ( the '-' means stdout or stdin )

Mark
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