{"id":990,"date":"2017-01-12T14:44:43","date_gmt":"2017-01-12T19:44:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xfloyd.net\/blog\/?p=990"},"modified":"2017-01-12T14:54:41","modified_gmt":"2017-01-12T19:54:41","slug":"linux-commands-to-extract-file-from-archive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xfloyd.net\/blog\/?p=990","title":{"rendered":"Linux commands to extract file from archive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To <strong>find <\/strong>a file in the archive use:<\/p>\n<p><code><br \/>\ntar -xvjf backup.tar.bz2 | grep {file_name}<br \/>\n<\/code><\/p>\n<p>To <strong>restore <\/strong>a file from the archive use:<\/p>\n<p><code><br \/>\n$ tar -xvf {tarball.tar} {path\/to\/file}<br \/>\n$ tar -zxvf tarball.tar.gz etc\/some\/file<br \/>\n$ tar -xvjf tarball.tar.bz2 etc\/some\/file <- did not work, (extracted whole archive)\n<\/code><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To find a file in the archive use: tar -xvjf backup.tar.bz2 | grep {file_name} To restore a file from the archive use: $ tar -xvf {tarball.tar} {path\/to\/file} $ tar -zxvf tarball.tar.gz etc\/some\/file $ tar -xvjf tarball.tar.bz2 etc\/some\/file<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xfloyd.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/990"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xfloyd.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xfloyd.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xfloyd.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xfloyd.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=990"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/xfloyd.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/990\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":993,"href":"https:\/\/xfloyd.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/990\/revisions\/993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xfloyd.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xfloyd.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xfloyd.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}