un-tar question

jakSun8 · April 28, 2008, 11:08am

Hi all,
My examples.tar has about 20 directories. I don't want to un-tar the entire examples.tar. Is there a way to un-tar just a directory named "java" from examples.tar?

Please let me know
JAK

era · April 28, 2008, 11:27am

Some tars allow a syntax like tar xf examples.tar java -- see if you have GNU tar on your system (might be called gtar)

jakSun8 · April 28, 2008, 11:43am

Thanks era, it worked!

JAK