Re: question about TAR

Em Thursday 29 November 2007 20:14:18 Ouattara Oumar Aziz (alias wattazoum)
escreveu:
Hello

I would like to know if it's possible to transfer a file from one tar
archive to another (without untarring it on the disk)

For example , I have a 2GB dir in a TAR archive and I want to transfer a
subdir of 1GB to another TAR file. I don't have 1GB free on my disk .
Can Tar handle this ?


have you tried this?

tar xf archive1.tar relative/path/to/file | tar rf \
archive2.tar -


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