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Starts an operation in the middle of an archive. Use in conjunction with --extract (--get, -x) or --list (-t).
If a previous attempt to extract files failed due to lack of disk
space, you can use --starting-file=name (-K
name) to start extracting only after member name of the
archive. This assumes, of course, that there is now free space, or
that you are now extracting into a different file system. (You could
also choose to suspend tar
, remove unnecessary files from
the file system, and then resume the same tar
operation.
In this case, --starting-file is not necessary.) See also
Asking for Confirmation During Operations, and Excluding Some Files.