cli-tarHow do I remove a file from a Unix tar archive?
To remove a file from a Unix tar archive, use the tar
command with the --delete
option.
For example, to remove file.txt
from the archive archive.tar
, run the following command:
tar --delete -f archive.tar file.txt
The command will delete file.txt
from the archive without extracting it.
The command consists of the following parts:
tar
- the command to manipulate tar archives--delete
- the option to delete a file from the archive-f
- the option to specify the archive filearchive.tar
- the tar archive from which the file will be deletedfile.txt
- the file to be deleted from the archive
For more information, see the GNU tar manual.
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