Compressed Tar : stop on first occurrence

[Mauricio Silveira <msilveira@linuxbr.com>]

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Hi all,


I'm wondering if there's any way to get tar to stop immediately after 
the extraction of a file on compressed tar files. eg: I pack a big tgz 
with the file index.txt first so that when I run "tar xf file.tgz 
--occurrence index.txt" it extracts "index.txt" but proceeds reading the 
file. I wish tar stopped after extracting the intended file.

I know it works for non-compressed tar archives....

Any way of achieving this with compressed files... maybe a patch lying 
around the net!?

My distribution is slackware.

Thanks in advance,
Mauricio

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