cli-tarHow do I remove a file from a Unix tar archive?
To remove a file from a Unix tar archive, you can use the tar --delete
command. The syntax for this command is tar --delete <archive> <filename>
. For example, to delete the file file.txt
from the archive archive.tar
, you would use:
tar --delete archive.tar file.txt
The command will delete the file from the archive and print a message like the following:
tar: Deleting file `file.txt' from archive `archive.tar'
The parts of the command are as follows:
tar
: The command to use for manipulating tar archives--delete
: The flag to indicate that you want to delete a file from the archivearchive.tar
: The name of the tar archivefile.txt
: The name of the file to delete from the archive
For more information on the tar --delete
command, see the manual page here.
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