extract single file from subset?

[George Robbins]

In article <ROBM.91May9154705 at ataraxia.Berkeley.EDU> robm at ataraxia.Berkeley.EDU (Rob McNicholas) writes:
> In article <PERF.91May9155302 at osiris.efd.lth.se> perf at efd.lth.se (Per
> Foreby) writes:
>    Is it possible to extract a single file from a setld subset?
> 
> 
> Most subsets are just compressed tar files, so
> 	cat SUBSET | uncompress | tar tvf -
> will give you a listing of the contents.  Then, replace the
> 	tar tvf -
> with an extract command ('tar xpvf - FILE') to extract a specific
> file.

It's also worth pointing out that the various files in /usr/etc/subsets
contain directory information which gives the location of the files on
the distribution media.  It's not too hard to figure out and is documented
more or less directly in the "setld" section of the documentation set.

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