I have a large tarball that is busy being FTP'd over from a remote system to our local system.I want to know if it is possible to start untarring lets say 50 files at a time so that those files can begin being processed while the transfer takes place.
Untar only a certain number of files from a large tarball
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Here is a detailed explanation on how it is possible to extract specific files from an archive. Specifically GNU tar can be used to extract a single or more files from a tarball. To extract specific archive members, give their exact member names as arguments.For example:tar --extract --file={tarball.tar} {file}You can also extract those files that match a specific globbing pattern (wildcards). For example, to extract from cbz.tar all files that begin with pic, no matter their directory prefix, you could type:tar -xf cbz.tar --wildcards --no-anchored 'pic*'To extract all php files, enter:tar -xf cbz.tar --wildcards --no-anchored '*.php'Where,-x: instructs tar to extract files.-f: specifies filename / tarball name.-v: Verbose (show progress while extracting files).-j: filter archive through bzip2, use to decompress .bz2 files.-z: filter archive through gzip, use to decompress .gz files.--wildcards: instructs tar to treat command line arguments as globbing patterns.--no-anchored: informs it that the patterns apply to member names after any / delimiter.