On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 9:43 AM, saich <saiched@gmail.com> wrote:
Skunks is there a command in linux that can help me untar a specific
sub-directory within a tarred dir without uncompressing the whole
directory. I only need contents in the subdirectory untarring the
entire directory will take ages and i dont have the diskspace
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List the contents of the archive by:

tar tzf archive.tar.gz (archive.tgz)

Once you get to know the hierarchy, you can do

tar zxf archive.tgz directory/path/


man tar. 

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