Extract specific files in a tar archive using a wildcard
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Solution 1
In the end, I found then answer after a good break. The option is wildcards, plural...
So the command
tar -xf MyTar.tar --wildcards "*.jpg"
did exactly what I needed.
Solution 2
Put quotes around the wildcard like this "*.jpg"
so the shell won't try expanding it and will instead pass it straight through to tar. You want tar to evaluate the wildcard, not the shell and the quotes do that.
Author by
AdrieanKhisbe
Updated on September 18, 2022Comments
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AdrieanKhisbe over 1 year
I'm trying to create a script to extract only jpeg pictures from an archive containing many kind of files.
To do so, I tried to use:
tar -xf MyTar.tar *.jpg
but it failed (*.jpg not found) and suggest me to use "--wildcard". So I tried
tar -xf MyTar.tar --wildcard *.jpg
I did that, but then the same error and a different warning saying to me that the option "--wildcard" is ambiguous.
I've been over the man pages for tar, but didn't find a clue about the problem.
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Deliss over 6 yearsWhich tar and which version? Paste the results of
tar --version
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