{"id":282521,"date":"2021-06-23T19:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-23T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/how-to-extract-a-single-file-from-a-tar-tar-gz-archive-cloudsavvy-it\/"},"modified":"2021-06-23T19:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-06-23T16:00:00","slug":"how-to-extract-a-single-file-from-a-tar-tar-gz-archive-cloudsavvy-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/how-to-extract-a-single-file-from-a-tar-tar-gz-archive-cloudsavvy-it\/","title":{"rendered":"#How to Extract a Single File from a .tar \/ .tar.gz Archive \u2013 CloudSavvy IT"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#How to Extract a Single File from a .tar \/ .tar.gz Archive \u2013 CloudSavvy IT”<\/strong><\/p>\n

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If you\u2019ve ever run into a scenario where you have a huge tar backup file but you only need to extract a single file, you\u2019re reading the right article today. Why bother extracting the whole thing just to grab that one file?<\/p>\n

Instead, you just need to know the syntax for extracting a single file out of that archive. And here is that syntax:<\/p>\n

tar --extract --file=<tarfile> <path\/to\/singlefile><\/pre>\n
So, for example, if you want to extract xmlrpc.php from a download<\/a>ed WordPress archive, you\u2019d use the following, since everything inside of the wordpress tar file is in a \u201cwordpress\u201d folder.<\/p>\n
tar --extract --file=latest.tar.gz wordpress\/xmlrpc.php<\/pre>\n
This, of course, is using the verbose syntax. Instead of using --extract<\/code> you can use -x<\/code>, and instead of using --file<\/code> you can use -f<\/code>, and you can even put them both together into a single argument like -xf<\/code> instead. (Note: Historically you\u2019d also need the -z<\/code> option to run through gzip, but in my testing it works fine without it). \u00a0So the shorter command would be:<\/p>\n
tar -xf latest.tar.gz wordpress\/xmlrpc.php<\/pre>\n
You can also extract a single folder using the same syntax. For example, to grab the entire wordpress\/wp-includes folder from inside of the WordPress archive, you\u2019d simply do:<\/p>\n
tar -xf latest.tar.gz wordpress\/wp-includes<\/pre>\n
There\u2019s also a --wildcard<\/code> parameter that you can use to pull all files matching a pattern \u2014 for instance, if you wanted to grab all PNG images from an archive, you could do something like this:<\/p>\n
tar -xf <tarball> --wildcards '*.png'<\/pre>\n
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