unzip single file and untar single file

Shell Programming and Scripting
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Dear friends,

My requirement below-

1] I have a zip file on unix server - ETL_Extracts_20100218175009.zip which is composed of various entity extracts namely... ENTITY1.txt, ENTITY2.txt, ENTITY3.txt etc....

How do I unzip only a single file ..say ENTITY2.txt from this zip file.
CAn you please provide the command??

2] I have a tar file on unix server - etl_20100224230331.tar
How do I untar a single file ..say sample.txt from this tar file
CAn you please provide the command??

Regards,
Suresh

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Suresh,

You can use below command to unzip only specified files from zip archive. Eg: To extract ENTITY2.txt file from ETL_Extracts_20100218175009.zip

unzip ETL_Extracts_20100218175009.zip ENTITY2.txt
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Thank you

I tested and found similar command hold true for tar as well

tar -xvf ETL.tar ENTITY2.txt