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Tar Command: Extract Files Matching A Pattern From An Archive File
An engineer would use this tar command when they need to extract only the HTML files from a tar archive containing multiple file types, allowing for more efficient file management and retrieval. Exact CLI syntax to extract files matching a pattern from an archive file using Tar.
When to use this: An engineer would use this tar command when they need to extract only the HTML files from a tar archive containing multiple file types, allowing for more efficient file management and retrieval.
Command Syntax
tar xf <path/to/source.tar> --wildcards "<*.html>"tar xf <path/to/source.tar> --wildcards "<*.html>"Command Breakdown
--wildcards- Wildcards
- Enables shell-style wildcard matching for archive members.
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Purpose: Exact syntax to extract files matching a pattern from an archive file using Tar.
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