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Re: Performance improvement - extract single match
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Sergey Poznyakoff |
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Re: Performance improvement - extract single match |
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Date: |
Thu, 14 Mar 2024 12:54:57 +0100 |
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MH (GNU Mailutils 3.15) |
Hi Philip,
> When
> tar --extract --file test.tar filename
> has found and written the contents of "filename", it could stop, but does not.
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> I assume this is because archive members with matching names could be present
> more than once, therefore the whole archive must be scanned.
Please use the --occurrence option:
https://www.gnu.org/software/tar/manual/html_node/Option-Summary.html#index-occurrence_002c-summary
Regards,
Sergey