I need help to extract a tar file inside a tar. I can extract the parent tar and then untar the child tar but trying to see if there any way to just extract the child tar without untaring parent tar..
eg:
tar -tf parent.tar
parent/
parent/child.tar
parent/file1
parent/file2
parent/file3
You should add an argument to match the file inside the tar and use -O
or --to-stdout
to extract data to stdout to pipe and use another tar to extract it:
tar -xOf parent.tar parent/child.tar | tar -x
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