Hi Paul,
> Presumably an option could be added to 'tar' so that it assumes the
> tar file contains no duplicates, and can run faster in your case.
FWIW, such an option already exists:
--occurrence[=NUMBER] process only the NUMBERth occurrence of each file
in t
Peng Yu ha escrit:
> Does anybody know what the problem is? Is there a way to let tar
> finish as soon as the file is extracted.
Try using the --occurrence option:
tar --occurrence=1 -xvf a_large_tar_file.tar path/to/file/for/extraction
Regards,
Sergey
On 04/17/2017 09:53 AM, Peng Yu wrote:
Does anybody know what the problem is?
There might be another instance of a file with the same name, in the
same tar file.
Presumably an option could be added to 'tar' so that it assumes the tar
file contains no duplicates, and can run faster in your c
Hi, I have a large tar file (1 > TB). When I try to extract a file
from it using the following command, it hangs there even the file to
be extracted has already been extracted in the local disk.
tar -xvf a_large_tar_file.tar path/to/file/for/extraction
Does anybody know what the problem is? Is th
